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Opportunity Zones Can Uplift Communities and Investors Alike
The program enables institutional and private investors to reduce taxes on current capital gains and avoid taxes on future capital gains—if they invest in low-income and rural communities.
Ingredients for a Healthy Site Selection Process in the Food Industry
Area Development interviewed Scott Kupperman, Founder, Kupperman Location Solutions, at our Miami Consultants Forum about the food industry dynamics that are influencing site selection in 2018 and beyond.
Who is Generation Z, the next workforce pool?
Brian Corde, a managing partner at Atlas Insight, spoke with Area Development about Generation Z, and its impact on the workforce, following his “Not Another Millennial Presentation!” presentation at our Miami Consultants Forum.
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FDI in the USA Remains Unrivaled
Companies choosing to invest in the United States are selecting a market powered by innovation with a diverse, highly skilled workforce and globally renowned educational and research institutions.
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Building Smarter: How to Ensure Optimization from Start to Finish and Beyond
A high-performing, future-ready, truly smart building can drive value for the occupants and organizations that depend on the facility.
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Apprenticeships Are Key to Building a Workforce for the Future
Apprenticeships are powerful economic development tools, with long-term commitment and collaboration among key players including chambers of commerce, economic development groups, business and industry leaders, public schools and community colleges.
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Understanding the Evolving Incentives Landscape
Key trends across the states indicate a continued effort to lure new businesses with incentives, but there’s a sustained focus on transparency and ensuring a return on investment for taxpayers.
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In Focus: Uncertainty Driving Location Strategy Amid USMCA Debate
Companies must manage trade policy risks and opportunities in today’s uncertain global trade environment.
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Editor’s Note: To Incent or Not to Incent?
Research indicates that incentives “tip” only 20 percent of location decisions, but it seems that’s a percentage that states and communities aren’t willing to relinquish.
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Selecting the Right Opportunity Zone for the Right Outcome
While the finding the right location for a new project is always a complex task, locating in an Opportunity Zone presents further challenges for both the company and the community in which it is investing.
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Late-Cycle Site Selection: Risk Management Principles
If your company chooses an asset that calls for renovation or adaptive reuse, risk management needs to be an important component of your strategy.
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How to Build a Data Center and Keep the Lights On
The data center building process is extremely complex, requiring careful planning with input from experts in wide-ranging fields.
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Acing a Project’s Entitlement Phase
Project due diligence along with clear communication with the project team and the surrounding community are needed to ensure your project gets off the ground.
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Four Key Concepts to Maximize Incentives
In order to maximize your ROI, start the incentives process early, think holistically, target those incentives that have the greatest effect on NPV, and make sure you understand all the players involved.
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Which Talent Sourcing Strategy Is Right for Your Company - and Its Location?
Carefully aligning your company’s talent sourcing strategy with its choice for a new facility location will result in a successful investment decision.
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Utilities’ Role in the Corporate Location Decision
Conveying a company’s utility needs to service providers and choosing a location that can properly meet those needs — now and into the future — will help to ensure a project’s success.
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Making a Well-Informed U.S. Location Decision
By properly defining their search and taking advantage of expert help, food and beverage companies can make a well-informed U.S. location decision.
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A Site Selector’s Checklist for Locating in the U.S.
From choosing a property to recruiting workers to navigating tax and regulatory considerations, challenges will occur — but with the right strategy and the help of an EDO, they can be mitigated.
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First Person: Building a Long-Term Manufacturing Workforce
Area Development’s staff writer, Mark Crawford, recently spoke to Amanda Hutchings, president of Peak Manufacturing in Pleasant Lake, Mich., about addressing the looming shortage of workers in manufacturing by hiring women, who are underrepresented in this field, and educating the youngest generation about the rewarding careers that await them in manufacturing.
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Location Notebook: Tennessee Builds on Its Business Retention and Attraction Efforts
A commitment to manufacturing, its logistical advantages, and a workforce development push are at the core of Tennessee’s economic strength.
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Employers Delve Into the Weeds of Cannabis Law
As the laws involving cannabis use — for both medicinal and recreational purposes — evolve, businesses must figure out how to operate in a changing environment.
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Accessing Talent Through a Dual Headquarters Move
There are many lessons to be learned from the Amazon search for a second headquarters location, but establishing dual headquarters is more the exception than the rule.
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How LEED Certification Transformed Industrial Development Standards
Today’s businesses aren't pursuing LEED certifications to the extent that they did in the past because sustainable development is now a given — it’s demanded by the market.
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What Does Sustainability Mean in 2019?
Although sustainability in the built environment is still important, fewer projects are seeking certifications, while wellness features/amenities are becoming more mainstream.
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A Site Selector’s Checklist for Locating in the U.S.
Location USA 2019
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33rd Annual Corporate Survey & the 15th Annual Consultants Survey
Q1 2019
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2018 Leading Metro Locations: Pacific and Mountain Metros Dominate the List
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2018 Top States for Doing Business: Georgia Ranks #1 Fifth Year in a Row
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Opportunity Zones Can Uplift Communities and Investors Alike
Q2 2019
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A Changing Food Manufacturing Industry
2017 Food Processing
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Made in America: An Outlook for Manufacturing in the U.S.
Location USA 2018