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WITH THE 2008 elections fast approaching, we soon will be hearing from our state and local politicians, in ever-increasing volume, how much they are doing to improve the business environment. [...]

When expanding businesses begin looking for locations for future operations, their site location teams spend an enormous amount of time analyzing and comparing the numerous cost factors and how they [...]

Back in 2003, commodore Aviation realized i t had outgrown i t s maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) facility next to Miami International Airport. It's a classic situation most growing [...]

ALL MANUFACTURING PLANTS have raw materials coming in and finished product going out,' said C.R. 'Buzz' Canup, president of Canup & Associates, an Austin, Texas,-based site location firm whose varied [...]

Success fosters success, and the people on your company's site location search team would do well to remember that adage. After all, the entire purpose behind the process is to [...]

WHEN WILL WYNN LOOKS OUT OVER THE Austin skyline, he sees a vibrant and prosperous city, seemingly bursting at the seams. Wynn is the two-term mayor of the city of [...]

WHY ON EARTH SHOULD you, as an out-of-state corporate executive attempting to choose the best location for a future manufacturing facility or outlying branch operation, even care about the relative [...]

WHAT DO PHOENIX, CHARLOTTE AND AUSTIN all have in common, besides good weather? The answer is they have all been remarkably successful in attracting business expansions and relocations. It is [...]

When the subject of business, education and work force comes up, most of us have a tendency to focus on colleges and universities. That's because the fastest-growing sectors of our [...]

BOB WYDRA SPENDS HIS DAYS OVERSEEING THE TRANSItion of a former U.S. Army base into an extensive intermodal transportation facility in the heart of America. From his second floor office [...]

WHEN SAMSUNG ANNOUNCED IN mid-April that it would build its next generation semiconductor plant in Austin, Texas, it marked one of the largest investments by a foreign company in the [...]

WHY IN THE WORLD SHOULD a company care about quality of life when trying to select the best location for a future operating facility? After all, with the exception of [...]

FOR THOSE COMPANIES WHOSE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE DEPENDS upon being able to always remain on the cutting edge of technology, being located in a place that is able to supply highly [...]

BE HONEST. WHEN YOU THINK OF Washington, D.C., or Phoenix or Baltimore or Philadelphia or Kansas City, Mo., do you think of good public schools? Me neither. In fact, those [...]

FOR EDMUND SCHWEITZER, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL), improving the quality of the math and science education our children receive is absolutely critical to the success of [...]

WHEN COLORADO VOTERS DECIDED EARLIER this month to approve a five-year hiatus to the state's Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) law, it was just the latest in a nationwide series [...]

Since the beginning of time, cities have come and gone based upon their proximity to a major transportation artery. In fact, nothing is quite so important to a region's economy [...]

LAST YEAR, WHEN DIRECTV, A LEADING DIGITAL TELEVISION service provider based in El Segundo, Calif., chose Tulsa, Okla., for a 1,300-person customer service center, it decided on 93,000 square feet [...]

WHEN WASHINGTON MUTUAL ANNOUNCED its selection of San Antonio, Texas, for its new regional operations center, Benson Porter, the company's chief administrative officer, cited a variety of reasons why the [...]

ON APRIL 1, FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR ANNOUNCED THAT THE COMPANY had selected Austin, Texas, for its global headquarters, despite fierce competition from other cities around the world, including Chicago, Phoenix and [...]

IN EARLY FEBRUARY, VOUGHT AIRCRAFT Industries Inc. and Global Aeronautica LLC broke ground on a facility that will produce and integrate fuselage structures for Boeing's new Dreamliner passenger jet. Boeing [...]

BACK IN 1993, STATA CORP. WAS A SANTA MONICA, CALIF.,-BASED software developer and distributor that faced a problem similar to many companies located in high cost areas. 'We were growing [...]

FOR THE CALIFORNIA ECONOMY, THE PAST FEW YEARS HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT, TO SAY THE least. Beginning with the dot.com implosion in 2000, the financial cushion supporting the California's high-flying economy [...]

TYSON FOODS ANNOUNCED IN LATE January its decision to open a major case-ready meat plant in Sherman, Texas, which will employ as many as 1,600 people. The company will spend [...]

IF SOCIAL SECURITY IS THE 'THIRD RAIL' OF NATIONAL politics, public education is definitely the 'third rail' of local politics. Nothing can get people all riled up quite like a [...]

at a glance This article ranks the most logistics-friendly cities in the U.S. and establishes criteria for more intelligent site selection. When most people think of Starbucks, they think of [...]

WHEN MOST PEOPLE THINK OF MILITARY life, they think of days gone by, when service members and their families lived a relatively secluded life on a base, sheltered from military [...]

WHEN SELECT BRANDS DECIDED TO ESTABLISH A FACILITY the Southeast to manufacture shelf-stable flexible retort pouches and trays, it chose a vacant food packaging and distribution facility in Greenville, S.C. [...]

WHEN MOST PEOPLE THINK OF STARBUCKS, THEY THINK OF COFFEE. WITH A diverse product portfolio and thousands of retail locations scattered throughout the world, though, coffee is far from the [...]

FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW, DES MOINES, IOWA, AND KANSAS CITY MO., finished one, two in the annual Mayor's Challenge[TM] competition for the best metro areas for business [...]

IF YOU WERE TO ASK THE VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICAN WORKERS how they would define quality of life, the top two items on their list would most likely be decent [...]

WHAT MAKES FOR A GREAT LOGISTICS LOCATION? ARE SOME cities better equipped than others to handle your company's distribution needs? If so, why? What is it about those cities that [...]

San Antonio, which anchors the southeastern corner of the famed Texas Hill Country, has experienced explosive growth in its economy lately, as major manufacturing and technology firms have chosen the [...]

In today's global economy, when a company is exploring possibilities for a future facility location, it is likely to have a list that includes not only U.S. cities, but also [...]

THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS IN Lawrence has become a major magnet for life sciences companies from around the world. The resources of a major research university and its world-class medical [...]

HERE'S A STATISTIC THAT REALLY SHOULDN'T SURPRISE ANYONE WHO HAS EVER been involved in the site location process: Roughly three out of four expanding companies that open up a new [...]

IN MID-NOVEMBER, NISSAN NORTH AMERICA announced its intention to move its corporate headquarters, along with about 1,300 jobs, from the Los Angeles metro to Franklin, Tenn., part of the Nashville [...]

MICRON TECHNOLOGY'S $1.2 BILLION upgrade of its fabrication facilities in Manassas, Va., is one example of the many technology companies that have found a home in the Old Dominion. During [...]

For the past five years, Expansion Management magazine and Logistics Today have combined to produce an annual ranking of the most logistics-friendly cities in the U.S. This study looks at [...]

WITH THE LATEST ROUND OF THE BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) process steaming toward its mandated conclusion later this fall, communities all across the nation will soon be faced with [...]

COST IS A RELATIVE CONCEPT. SURE, IT'S EXPRESSED IN DOLLARS and cents, but it only has true meaning when compared with other costs. When someone says a place is expensive, [...]

TOYOTA MOTOR MANUFACTURING North America (TMMNA) recently announced that its subsidiary, Bodine Aluminum Inc., will increase its investment at its Jackson plant by $40 million, to $164 million. The expansion [...]

A DECADE AGO, IT WAS NOT UNUSUAL FOR A COMPANY to spend nine to 12 months gathering information about various prospective locations before finally deciding where to place its new [...]

AS A LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPER, HAVE YOU ever found yourself wishing that your metro area's namesake school district--you know, the one that carries the name of the entire metro area--would [...]

If your company is looking for the best place to establish a new distribution facility, the cities on this list are a good place to start. THROUGHOUT HISTORY, CITIES HAVE [...]

Selecting the right site for your future distribution center requires a lot of research and planning. The good news is that there are plenty of resources you can tap. Even [...]

ONE OF THE MOST important functions any economic development program performs is to attempt to attract jobs to locations that are economically disadvantaged. One of the most common ways that [...]

Teaneck, N.J.,--based Eisai Inc. recently broke ground for a new pharmaceutical production and formulation research and development facility for parenteral oncology treatments in Research Triangle Park, N.C. Eisai will invest [...]

PepsiCo recently announced its decision to locate a new major logistics facility in South Albany, Ore. The 1.8 million square foot production and container facility will seek LEEDS (Leadership in [...]

WHEN ALABAMA GOV. BOB RIley announced earlier this summer that the state was investing $50 million as part of a $130 million public-private partnership that will create a biotechnology research [...]