Ameritrade, Fort Worth, Texas: Also part of the clicks-to-bricks brigade, Ameritrade will meet burgeoning online demand with this 1,200-employee facility in Alliance Gateway, which beat out Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C. Capital One, Henrico County, Va.: Quality transportation, technology infrastructure and labor keyed this $70 million, 2,010-employee expansion, part of the 3,000-plus workers that fast-growing Capital One added in its home state in 1999. Cognicase, Montreal: Quebec’s high-tech incentives, with per-employee tax credits of up to $15,000, helped Cognicase decide to locate a 2,000-employee, $328 million software engineering center in its headquarters city. ETrade, Alpharetta, Ga.: Labor quality, land availability and quality of life were the deciding factors in adding 2,200 Atlanta-metro employees, creating an ETrade center for customer service, marketing and financial services. Fidelity Investments, Providence, R.I.: The largest U.S. mutual fund firm’s 1,300-employee regional center expansion marks a big win in the smallest U.S. state’s increased emphasis on job creation. Ford, Louisville, Ky.: Demonstrated productivity and state tax credits facilitated this $174 million, 1,000-employee expansion to make the new Excursion SUV in the No. 4 automaking state’s biggest cluster, Louisville, where Ford has now invested $1.2 billion. Fujitsu-Hitachi, Kyushu, Japan: Amid Japan’s recovery efforts, these two giants joint ventured on a $413 million, 800-employee plant whose economies of scale could speed uptake for pricey plasma TVs. Gateway, Hampton, Va.: Surging demand spurred Gateway’s 1,200-job expansion at its productive Hampton plant, which also added warehousing and parts fulfillment operations. General Motors, Shreveport, La.: State and local officials’ efforts nipped New Jersey, landing GM’s $700 million, 2,547-job expansion to bulk up the plant to build a range of mid-size trucks. Insurance Services Office; Jersey City, N.J.: The border wars continued, as ISO dumped its World Trade Center headquarters, drawn by New Jersey’s incentives and a consolidation that will cut rent by $120 million through 2020. Intel Online Services; Fairfax County, Va.: The heavy Internet traffic moving through AOL’s Northern Virginia home turf was a major factor in this $130 million facility equipped with 8,000 high-powered servers, a key element in Intel’s $1 billion ISP investment in ’99. LucasFilms, San Francisco: A Cold War/”Star Wars” hookup, filmdom’s George Lucas won a hard-fought skirmish for the former Presidio base’s prime acreage, where he’s setting up a $250 million, 1,500-employee campus. New Venture Gear, Syracuse, N.Y.: Gov. George Pataki’s personal visit helped steer this $200 million, 300-employee transmission-case plant expansion to New York, which beat out Indiana and Virginia. Quantex, Stevenage, UK: Skilled work-force availability, strong infrastructure and education systems, and a robust technology cluster prompted the fast-growing PC maker’s $85 million, 1,000-employee expansion in its European headquarters city. Quantex officials called incentives “too constraining” and said they “didn’t need
America Online, Prince William County, Va.: 
The online king of clicks that swallowed Time-Warner searched nationwide before siting this $520 million, 200-employee technology center in this Northern Virginia county, which also bagged Covad Communications’ 1,000-employee technical center.
Siemens Automotive, Regensburg, Germany: Aiming to boost coordination and productivity, Siemens is adding 2,000 jobs, a new logistics facility and a development center at a manufacturing complex where it already employs 4,300.
Sprint PCS, Charlotte, N.C.: Charlotte’s business attraction web nudged out Baltimore for the largest U.S. all-digital network’s 1,350-employee, $44 million customer service center.
Sun Microsystems, Broomfield, Colo.: Sun kept the expansion heat on with this 700-job, $34 million expansion in north Denver, a high-tech hot spot.
TIAA-CREF, Charlotte, N.C.: The state’s education system helped it nip Tampa for the largest pension system’s Southeast base, a $100 million, 1,000-employee University Research Park facility that may get a lot bigger.
