Snapshot

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.

If every picture tells a story, then every trophy does too.

If you’re looking for business intelligence about waterborne cargo, there’s no better place than the Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Institute for Water Resources, which just released its annual tonnage report for 2022.

This year, for the first time, among the external indices used in Site Selection’s Global Best to Invest rankings (due to be released on Thursday, May 1) is the DHL Global Connectedness Report.

Industry project investment data from sectors and professional practices attached to clean tech and clean power are central to the sophisticated index behind Site Selection’s annual Sustainability Rankings, which last year saluted top performers such as Sweden, North Carolina and Austin, Texas.

The people come from different points of origin than the corporate investment. But are there states where high numbers of foreign-born individuals coincide with high numbers of foreign-sourced corporate facility investment?

We steal a glance at the findings of the World Happiness Report 2024 and how they align with countries’ economic development climates.

Last week the EPA recognized 103 U.S. manufacturing plants that earned the agency’s ENERGY STAR certification in 2023, designated for plants in the top 25% of energy efficiency in their sector.

A trio of federal program announcements during Q1 2024 unleash funds, people and resources intended to enhance the economic development, health and vitality of under-resourced and overstressed communities and sites.

Clean energy goals require the sometimes less-than-clean manufacture of the products charged with achieving those goals, from solar cells and panels to wind turbine blades and nacelles to all the EV- and semiconductor-related products that require critical minerals.

Triangulation was a thing even before University of Southern California basketball coach Sam Barry and his player-turned-coach Tex Winter popularized the triangle offense.

Karl Pischke, Principal, RCLCO RCLCO Real Estate Consulting this month released its annual report on the top 50 master-planned communities in the United States, ranked by sales the previous calendar year.

Necessity may be the mother of invention. To lure and cultivate corporate investment, a territory’s knack for invention and innovation is a competitive necessity.

Documenting community industrial development in the United States has been a core mission of Site Selection since we launched publication 70 years ago this month.

A team of students from Columbia University won the Colvin Case Study Challenge this year with their analysis of the One Boerum Place development on a property formerly belonging to Brooklyn Law School in Brooklyn, New York.

The Bay Area leads the way for No. 1 California when evaluating HQ locations of high-performing companies in the American Opportunity Index.

Home to institutions such as the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, the University of California San Francisco is part of the 10-campus University of California.

Samsung, which continues to grow in Austin, Texas (pictured), offers its global office workforce a variety of remote work and “work from anywhere” options.

In Oregon, where 64% of public high schools offer foundational computer science, scholastic esports organization Vanta in May announced it was partnering with East Metro STEAM Partnership (EMSP), Multnomah Education Service District (MESD) and Intel to establish an esports community initiative at the high school and middle school level.

This DOE illustration may remind some of the pioneering SimCity video game franchise, but the seven designated Hydrogen Hubs have real potential.

On October 19 at the inaugural America’s Top Small Business gala hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., 51-year-old fretted instruments store Elderly Instruments won a $25,000 grand prize in the Chamber’s America’s Top Small Business Awards.