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We comb through the data from Cushman & Wakefield’s report on the world’s priciest retail avenues. This year a European shopping district beat out New York’s Upper Fifth Avenue for the first time as Via Montenapoleone in Milan, Italy, was declared the world’s most expensive retail street.Photo by Andrei Domanin: Getty Images If you associate […]

Participation in snow activities increased by 10% in New Mexico between 2022 and 2023.Photo by Evan Green courtesy of New Mexico Outdoor Recreation Division Step out onto the planet.Draw a circle 100 feet round. Inside the circle are 300 thingsnobody understands and,maybe, nobody’s ever seen. How many can you find? — Lew Welch, “Hermit Poems,” […]

Singapore tops more than one ranking of business environments, including the new Business Ready rankings from the World Bank.Photo of Clarke Quay courtesy of Singapore Tourism Board Time was when the World Bank Doing Business rankings were a standby resource, whether we were examining the rise of India or putting together a composite index for […]

Given California’s R&D prowess, it was no surprise that early this month the city of Sunnyvale (home to Applied Materials’ forthcoming Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization Center, pictured) was announced as the expected location for the CHIPS for America Design and Collaboration Facility.Rendering courtesy of Applied Materials It’s that time of year. Not the […]

        Slicing and Dicing the Academy   Oxford University is No. 1 in the world for the ninth consecutive year. Photo by Chinyup Wong: Getty Images Earlier this month at Times Higher Education’s World Academic Summit in Manchester, UK, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 were unveiled. A total of […]

        WorldSkills Brings France’s Summer of Global Competitions to a Close   Attendees from Japan and Hong Kong share a jubilant moment at WorldSkills 2024 in Lyon, France. Photo courtesy of WorldSkills How do you get 100,000 visitors to your city because of vocational education? Put your city in France, for starters. […]

        The Geography of Genius   The Johnson Museum sits atop East Hill on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, one of several institutions frequently associated with MacArthur grant recipients from New York. 2019 photo by Jason Koski (UREL) © Cornell University This week’s announcement of 22 new MacArthur Fellows brings […]

        NMTCs Bring New Fuel for Growth to Low-Income Urban and Rural Areas   Rodgers Wade Manufacturing of Paris, Texas (whose replica Eiffel Tower is pictured here), is one of hundreds of manufacturers whose expansions have benefited from NMTC financing. Photo: Getty Images Last week $5 billion in New Markets Tax Credits […]

        Tech Rules the Roost Among Inc. 5000 Industry Categories   But construction, logistics and manufacturing companies are well represented too. Rancho Cordova, California, part of Greater Sacramento, is home to a new headquarters and forthcoming business accelerator from consulting firm Clutch, the No. 1 firm by growth rate in this year’s […]

        Virginia Tops Inc. 5000 Firms Per Capita List   The Big Apple tops the overall metro region and city rankings, while Sheridan, Wyoming, and Lawrenceville, Georgia, bring in per-capita metro and city honors. Brooklyn is one borough helping Metro New York to No. 1 among all U.S. metros by number of […]

In August, Inc. Magazine revealed its annual Inc. 5000, a lineup of companies ranked by their percentage revenue growth over the last three years. Collectively, these companies have generated 874,940 jobs and $317 billion in revenue over three years and have displayed median revenue growth of 1,637%. They also generate momentum for the states and […]

If outdoor recreation opportunities are on your company’s or family’s location matrix, new data released by the National Park Service this week is worth visiting.

As Major League Baseball’s regular season winds down like a pitch clock and pennant races wind up like a pitcher, sports team owners, communities and entire states keep taking their best swings at new stadium proposals and deals.

Since January 2015, Site Selection’s Conway Projects Database has qualified 58 major data center investments in the Europe’s “FLAP-D” markets: Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin.

        Cart Before the Horse?           If a proposed 25% tariff were to go into effect, the cost of 12 STS cranes already ordered from Chinese companies by the Port of Virginia (pictured) would balloon from $161.52 million to nearly $202 million, says the AAPA. Photo courtesy of […]

        These Places and Companies Lead the Way in Developing Vaccines           Moderna leads all companies in vaccine candidates on PhRMA’s list, followed by such companies as Pfizer, GSK and BioNTech. Since 2000, according to Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the U.S. Food & Drug Administration […]

Strategic direction and global trends can sometimes be ascertained through the lens of one company or conglomerate. RTX — encompassing Pratt & Whitney, Collins Aerospace and Raytheon since a 2020 merger — is a case in point.

        SkillsUSA Competitors Make News by Making Things           Photos courtesy of SkillsUSA A presidential debate and a Copa America match were taking place at the same time and mere yards away in downtown Atlanta in June, with results that some would rather forget. But the memorable achievements […]

The second annual edition of Site Selection’s America’s Best Counties was released this week, based on project tallies and associated capital investment and job creation between January 2023 and March 2024 as tracked by Conway Data’s proprietary Conway Projects Database.

New York City-based tourism, real estate and economic development advisor Resonance this week released its eighth annual America’s Best Cities rankings, which seek to “quantify and benchmark the relative quality of place, reputation and competitive identity of U.S. urban centers.”

At a time when workforce housing is sorely needed, last month the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded $3.17 billion in Public Housing Repair funding to 2,756 public housing authorities (PHAs) in all 50 states, D.C. and several U.S. territories to make capital investments to their public housing stock.

Eighty years after a signature moment in history, a Tennessee-based company is honoring the past while helping forge a visionary future in Normandy.

Twice a year, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) publishes “FDI in Figures.” The most recent release dropped April 30, showing that global FDI flows dropped by 7% in 2023 to US$1.36 trillion, including a decrease in more than two-thirds of the 38 OECD economies.

If attainable workforce housing is on your radar, then recent reports from two valuable resources should be too.