How do you get 100,000 visitors to your city because of career and technical education? Make sure your city’s in France, for starters. And invite everyone.

ARKANSAS

The chief supply chain officer for Tractor Supply Co. fills us in on a company location strategy that includes a new operation in Maumelle, Arkansas.

OUTDOOR RECREATION

The U.S. outdoor recreation economy is booming, and several western states are capitalizing on that momentum.

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Photo courtesy of Edwards Vacuum

Before dawn this morning, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce and Edwards Vacuum, which manufactures dry vacuum pumps important for semiconductor production, have signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms (PMT) to provide up to $18 million in proposed direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act to support the construction of a 600-job greenfield manufacturing facility in Genesee County, New York, which the company first announced in 2022.

Site Selection’s Ron Starner talked to Edwards Vacuum Vice President of Global Business Development Scott Balaguer about the company’s expansion decision in May 2023.

TOURISM

From overnight stays to total spending, tourism is hitting new heights.

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Opportunities in AI are one area explored in a new report from Oxford Economics.

Photo by Jacob Wackerhausen: Getty Images

Oxford Economics Africa and risk consultancy Control Risks in September launched the ninth edition of the Africa Risk-Reward Index. The report yields key insights in such areas as youth activism, AI and infrastructure megaprojects.

Photo courtesy of U.S. Federal Highway Administration

In a search for imagery to illustrate a forthcoming New Interstate Corridors report in Site Selection’s November issue, Editor in Chief Adam Bruns ran across a deep photo archive maintained by the Federal Highway Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation that documents the federal Interstate system’s early days. This photograph from 1964 shows what I-405 looked like as the eight-lane San Diego Freeway in Los Angeles County crossed over Sepulveda Boulevard near the Mulholland Cut. “It appears,” Bruns writes, “that all Interstate corridors were once new.”