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2024

Online Insider: Foot Locker Packs its Bags for St. Pete: The iconic sneaker seller is trading in the Big Apple for the Sunshine State. (Oct 31, 2024)

Online Insider: Fender Stays in Tune with Greater Phoenix: Legendary guitar firm picks redeveloped mall site for new HQ2. (Oct 17, 2024)

Online Insider: The Case for Cooperation: Advancing Green Technology in a De-risking Era (Aug 29, 2024)

Online Insider: Harmonious Blend: (Aug 15, 2024)

Online Insider: The Beautiful Game’s Bounty: The metro Atlanta sports community unites for an economic golazo. (Jul 25, 2024)

Online Insider: Digital Nomads Find a Home in Dubai: Emirate’s initiative to attract tech workers pays dividends. (May 30, 2024)

Online Insider: Designing Cities for Social Connection: Integrating Third Places into Urban Planning (May 8, 2024)

Online Insider: Linerboard Maker Brings New Life to Old Paper Mill in Ashland, Virginia: The plant manager outlines the past, present and future of Canada’s Cascades. (Mar 28, 2024)

Online Insider: Time to Get Fresh: In Cali, Colombia, I danced the salsa. But my taste buds were in rhythm upon arrival. (Mar 13, 2024)

Online Insider: How CoStar Came to Love Virginia: Arlington lands a global HQ while Richmond nets 2,000 jobs. (Mar 7, 2024)

Online Insider: Chance Encounter Wakes Up Bainbridge: How a gunmaker’s investment triggered a new era. (Feb 28, 2024)

Online Insider: A Nuclear Power Player Expands in Virginia: Framatome’s CEO tells Site Selection what’s behind the company’s $49.4 million, 515-job investment in Lynchburg. (Feb 22, 2024)

Online Insider: How a Kiwi Car Company Chose California: A driverless shuttle firm takes a 6,500-mile jaunt from Auckland to Riverside. (Jan 25, 2024)

2023

Online Insider: How Virginia’s Largest University Develops Workers: The new president of Liberty University brings lessons from the Air Force to ground level. (Dec 28, 2023)

Online Insider: Globetrotting Multinational Remains in Gift Capital: Whirlwind Tour Convinces SCL To Stay Home with HQ (Dec 21, 2023)

2020

Online Insider: Credentials for Human Work: The story of a Syrian refugee in Canada illustrates how transparent credentials can facilitate dreams and opportunity. (Oct 8, 2020)

Online Insider: The Case For Tech-Employment Resilience During COVID-19: The Case For Tech-Employment Resilience During COVID-19 (Sep 24, 2020)

Online Insider: Have Years of Darwinism in Rural America Paid Off During COVID-19?: That’s the question posed by Lacy Beasley as she examines retail adaptation in communities across the nation. (Sep 17, 2020)

Online Insider: Lessons Learned, Lessons Applied: How Colorado OEDIT is leading the economic recovery effort. (Sep 3, 2020)

Online Insider: Ready, Aim, Hire: Northrop Grumman is bringing 500 jobs to rural West Virginia. (Aug 13, 2020)

Online Insider: How the Construction Trades Responded to COVID-19: Deemed ‘essential,’ the business of building America continues during the pandemic. (Jul 2, 2020)

Letter From the Publisher: Are We Better Than This?: “Racism exists in nearly every corner of the world. It is most toxic, most socially destructive, in America.” (Jun 18, 2020)

Online Insider: Will COVID-19 Kill Globalization? What You Need to Know: Globalization is not dying. Rather, it’s evolving, and existing trends are accelerating. American companies and workers would be wise to prepare for what’s ahead. (May 18, 2020)

Online Insider: They’ll Have the Fish: A new aquaculture operation aims to help Puerto Rico achieve food sovereignty one site at a time. (May 7, 2020)

Online Insider: Perspectives from Europe on Business Resilience in Pandemic Times: Communities and companies are demonstrating novel solutions to dealing with the novel coronavirus. (Apr 30, 2020)

Online Insider: 10 Site Selection and Economic Development Takeaways from the COVID-19 Crisis: Over-extended and overly risky supply chains are no longer tolerable. (Apr 23, 2020)

COVID-19: Suffocating the global medical supply chain …: … while breathing life into its future. (Apr 16, 2020)

Online Insider: ‘No Two Days Are the Same’: The Georgia Chamber faces its biggest challenge yet - battling a pandemic-induced recession. (Apr 9, 2020)

Online Insider: As Real as It Gets: Long viewed as a system parallel to that of traditional employers, the film and TV production economy has become the new normal for many leading regions. (Jan 9, 2020)

2019

Wyoming: Crypto Cowboys:Wyoming is leading the drive in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. (Oct 24, 2019)

Minority Report: Atlanta: Black perspectives on economic development, technology and startups in the city too busy to hate. (Oct 10, 2019)

Online Insider: Twist of Fate: Four years after choosing a site in Florida, Coquí Pharma’s CEO explains why a crucial medical isotope project is now landing in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. (Jun 6, 2019)

Online Insider: Almost, But Not Quite: A Finnish company’s promotional idea to open a pop-up bar at the North Pole instead pops open a window on Arctic politics and environmental issues. (Apr 25, 2019)

Online Insider: A Lasting Impression - 7 Things I Learned in Sarasota County, Florida: What do a new baseball stadium, the Fountain of Youth and the Ringling Brothers have in common? If you answered the Florida Gulf Coast, you’d be right. (Apr 4, 2019)

Brexit: 'Invisible Chain': A government leader says the chains that appear to bind the post-Brexit UK economy could instead be stronger links to global partners in trade and democracy. (Jan 10, 2019)

2018

Online Insider: Ready When You Are: Spain's Talgo commits to create more than 1,000 jobs in Scotland, and a UK-centered railway vision that goes way beyond the UK. (Dec 6, 2018)

Montana: The New Pioneers: Entrepreneurship is making a mark in Montana. (Oct 25, 2018)

Smart Mobility: Driver Not Needed: How Torc Robotics engineered a leading position in self-driving vehicle tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. (Oct 11, 2018)

Infrastructure: Return to the Waterfront: For most New Yorkers, 'underwater' triggers bad memories of Hurricane Sandy or the financial crisis. For this one, it signaled opportunity. (Sep 27, 2018)

Logistics: Yes, Virginia, Publix is Betting on You Too: The supermarket chain’s inexorable march north includes a $300-million investment in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Sep 20, 2018)

Mixed-Use Development: Take Me Out to the Mixed-Use Development: Will diamonds turn into gold in Tampa, Lakeland and North Port? MLB teams think so. (Aug 30, 2018)

Idaho: No Small Potatoes: Burley leads Idaho in big-time investments. (Aug 23, 2018)

Mixed-Use Development: If You Believe: Theme park designer ITEC Entertainment is the ultimate show runner, bringing its proven brand of storytelling to the exploding universe of mixed-use destinations. (Aug 16, 2018)

Europe: A 'Decisive Moment' in Paris: With $60 million in funding, French photography editing startup Meero is about to build the nation’s largest computer vision center and open more offices abroad. (Jul 26, 2018)

Africa: MAN United in Advocating for Reforms to Nigeria’s Business Environment: The president of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria sees promise on the horizon, once obstacles in the foreground are overcome. (Jul 18, 2018)

World Forum Report: Building a Millennial Workforce: The 2018 World Forum highlighted challenges and opportunities. (Jul 12, 2018)

Montana: There’s Bitcoin Gold in Them Thar Hills: Cryptocurrency miners reveal the site selection process that led them to Montana. (Jul 5, 2018)

World Forum Report: The Investor Perspective: Three corporate decision-makers explain why their projects are going where they’re going. (Jun 28, 2018)

Port of Mobile: Rolling Along: The Port of Mobile will build a new roll-on/roll-off facility at an ideal time for the growing automotive industry in the southeastern U.S. (Jun 21, 2018)

Georgia: Global Insurer Opens New Tech Support Center in Duluth, Georgia: Assurant leaders say they’ve found a smart home from which to support the smart-device needs of the company’s 200 million customers. (Jun 7, 2018)

Virginia: What America Can Learn from Lynchburg, Virginia: This south central Virginia city did not set out to become a model for regional rebirth, but things changed. (May 31, 2018)

Corporate Campuses: Catching a Buzz: Just in time for the first World Bee Day, Fortune 500s are swarming to ‘Bee Downtown.’ (May 24, 2018)

E-Commerce: You May Also Like …: Even for Amazon, four big projects pledging 8,000 new jobs announced over the past 17 days is an above-average pace. (May 17, 2018)

Florida: Wake-Up Call Delivered: Wildlight development means rural Nassau County may be sleepy no more. (May 11, 2018)

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