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You Can’t Cut Wood with a Hammer
Building successful Special Economic Zones (SEZs) is extremely difficult. The 2020s have been a bad decade for many SEZs.
‘More Competition Breeds Better Planes’
Now publicly scouring the nation and the globe for potential sites, San Diego–based Natilus, maker of an innovative blended-wing-body (BWB) aircraft, announced this week it aims to build a 300-job, 250,000-sq.-ft. complex near an airport to make its KONA cargo freighter.
Drone Maker Lands $900 Million Project in Central Ohio
A nationwide search led the defense contractor to a site in Greater Columbus.
Globetrotting Multinational Remains in Gift Capital
After surveying its global prospects and fielding offers almost too good to be true, closely held Arctic Circle-based multinational S.C. Unlimited (SCL) has decided to keep the home fires burning at the North Pole.
Snapshot
Where Is the Uranium?
“No form of nuclear fission power — of any kind — is possible without relying on uranium.” So state the France-based Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). So it figures where to find and process the stuff might be important.
Biggest of the Big
We look in on three lists of 2024 corporate end-user facility projects abroad as tracked by the Conway Projects Database: Top 10 by investment, Top 10 by jobs and Top 10 by project area.
Ocean Breezes Rule: Puerto Rico and Oceania Top New Air Quality Rankings
Can you have meaningful industrial development in the least polluted places in the world? New air quality data allows us to provide at least a partial answer.
Female-Founded Unicorns Surge in New VC Deal Report from PitchBook
Following recently released reports on the outlook for private equity and venture capital in the year ahead, that’s what Pitchbook is doing with “All In,” a new 26-page report on female-founded companies in the VC ecosystem (minus OpenAI deals). The report reveals the usual suspects and a few outliers in terms of company location.
Taking Time with Census Data Makes Business Sense
It’s time for another chapter in Site Selection Snapshot’s occasional series on U.S. Census Bureau data sets useful to location decision-making.
Project Bulletin
Project Bulletin, Apr. 21, 2025: San Diego, California; Lynchburg, Virginia; Middleton Township, Ohio
Pharmaceutical manufacturer is all in on U.S. portfolio growth; Delta Star returns to Lynchburg for new expansion; Meta announces latest data center investment.
Project Bulletin, Apr. 14, 2025: London, England; Beijing, China; Lawton, Oklahoma
Fresh JV to deliver new London data center; AstraZeneca builds collaboration in Beijing; Goodyear’s production capacity soars in Oklahoma.
Project Bulletin, Apr. 7, 2025: Ontario, Canada; Newport, South Wales, United Kingdom; Lviv, Ukraine
Siemens Canada pursues new R&D campus in Ontario; Vishay Intertechnology increases production capacity in Wales; Kingspan Group gains project approval in Ukraine.
Project Bulletin, Mar. 31, 2025: Houston, Texas; Gumi, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea; Chakan, Maharashtra, India
United Airlines boosts presence in Texas; LG Innotek increases competitiveness in South Korea; Automaker expands capacity in India.
Project Bulletin, Mar. 24, 2025: New South Wales, Australia; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Rourkela, Odisha, India
Co-investment aids logistics needs at Australia’s Port Botany; Canada-based biomanufacturer returns to Alberta; SAIL plans to double production capacity in India.
Investor Watch
Investor Watch: April 21, 2025
Novartis; Virginia; Ohio; IAMC Insider; Minnesota; HUD, FBI, Etc.; Kentucky Gov. Beshear Q&A; Kentucky Business Climate; How to Protect Against Tariff Impact; 370-Year Experiment
Investor Watch: April 17, 2025
Uranium Locations; Cybersecurity; Indiana; OZ Research; Rural Workforce; Greater Des Moines; COO Survey; Chiapas, Mexico
Investor Watch: April 14, 2025
London; Beijing; Lawton, Oklahoma; Pacific Northwest; Maryland; New Jersey Innovation; Apprenticeships; State Workforce Boards; Methanol Gigaplants; Baseball History in Knoxville
Investor Watch: April 10, 2025
Top Global Giants of 2024; Top Industries of 2024; New Mexico: Hyundai in America; Data Center Best Practices; Manufacturing Extension Partnerships; Global Tax Incentives; Freeport, Texas
Investor Watch: April 7, 2025
Canada; United Kingdom; Ukraine; Editor’s View; World Reports; Electric Aircraft; Trade Education Leaders; Workforce Stats; Japanese Corporations in Europe; Montreal Festival
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