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Location Notebook: Big Manufacturing Investments Keep Kentucky’s Automotive Industry Rolling Along
Kentucky is a powerful force in the U.S. auto industry. Major automakers have been building vehicles in the state for generations.
Location Notebook: Louisville-Southern Indiana Offer Bi-State Regional Advantages
Although these two locales compete for business to a certain extent, each benefits from the advantages provided by its neighbor, as do the businesses located there.
Location Notebook: Pitt County, NC Provides “Healthful” Business Environment
Pitt County is building on its success in the life sciences sector and its quality-of-life advantages.
Location Notebook: Well-Connected Tennessee Innovating to Distribute Success
Tennessee ranks highly for its certified sites program as well as its transportation infrastructure, and the state is employing innovative strategies to address educational and other challenges.
Location Notebook: Entrepreneurialism Is Riding High in Kentucky
By helping entrepreneurs and small business, Kentucky has managed to regain economic strength sapped by the recession.
Location Notebook: Economic Innovation in the “New” New Orleans
As New Orleans approaches the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in 2015, the city is in many ways barely recognizable to what it was years ago. Economists and national publications say it has undergone one of the most rapid and dramatic economic turnarounds in recent American history.
Location Notebook: Tesla’s “Gigafactory” - Reno’s Game Changer
With the announcement that Tesla picked Reno for its highly publicized $5 billion “gigafactory,” the area took a giant step toward civic leaders' goal of remaking its economy and image. To win the project, the state offered a rich — and what will be a highly scrutinized — incentive package. Will the bold gamble pay off?
A California County That's Making (Good) News
Kern County is developing a reputation for growing high-tech industries such as wind and solar power, aerospace, and distribution/logistics that need highly skilled workers.
SubTropolis Offers Deep Reasons to Locate Underground
More than 50 businesses lease space within SubTropolis, a subterranean business complex located in Kansas City - a maze of warehouse, office, and light industrial space, several miles of roads, a couple of miles of rail, nearly 400 truck dock locations, and more than 1,500 parking spaces.
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Location Notebook: Nashville Is Now on the Financial Services Map
AllianceBernstein’s move to Nashville has made it a major player in the financial services sector.
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Location Notebook: Tennessee’s Comprehensive Workforce Development Efforts
From offering free postsecondary education to partnering with employers on workforce training programs to identifying skills gaps, Tennessee is tackling the challenge of fulfilling industry’s short- and long-term labor force needs.
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Location Notebook: Mississippi — Where Key Stakeholders Cooperate for Business Success
Mississippi’s Shovel Award accomplishments reflect a commitment by businesses, their workforces, and the economic development community to work together.
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Location Notebook: Kentucky's Favorable Business Climate Brings Record Corporate Investment
Through pro-business initiatives — including cutting red tape, passing RTW legislation, and customizing workforce training — Kentucky captured record investment in 2017 and sees more success ahead.
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Location Notebook: Tennessee - Focusing on Rural Development
Realizing the need to stimulate growth in rural areas, state legislators, educators, and other stakeholders came together to pass legislation, certify sites, and increase broadband access among other measures aimed at attracting business and tourism.
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Location Notebook: Cape Coral-Desirable for Business Owners and Residents Alike
A pro-business environment and an enviable quality of life have made Cape Coral a haven for biomedical and other light manufacturing companies.
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Location Notebook: Kentucky Is Prime Ground for Logistics and Distribution
Companies like UPS, DHL, Amazon, and others are taking advantage of Kentucky’s centralized location and highly developed infrastructure to move freight by air, water, rail, and road.
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Location Notebook: Tennessee - A Place to Grow Headquarters Operations
A pro-business environment is helping Tennessee to attract headquarters operations and grow its business and professional services sector, while its quality of life draws workers to the state.
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Location Notebook: Project 95 - Innovating to Bring New Prosperity to Rural Tennessee
By utilizing a multifaceted approach that includes an available facility, workforce training and support, incentives, and other assistance, Tennessee’s economic development team plans to bolster the economy of one distressed county at a time.
Location Notebook: Indiana Workforce Initiatives Attract and Retain Industry
Indiana is meeting its workforce challenges, while drawing upon its infrastructure and other strengths to attract business.
Location Notebook: Foreign Investment Making a Powerful Impact in Tennessee
Companies across the globe are making investments and creating jobs in Tennessee to connect with suppliers and ultimately reach the vast U.S. market.
Location Notebook: West Virginia’s Economic Diversification Helping the State to Meet Challenges
The P&G win was an important one for the state, providing validation that West Virginia can be a competitive place to do business.
Location Notebook: Tennessee - Innovations to Meet Workforce Needs
Tennessee is actively addressing the challenge of providing companies expanding and locating in the state with a skilled workforce.
Location Notebook: Auto Industry Driving the Kentucky Economy
The auto industry is steering the Bluegrass State toward growth and prosperity, while the state works to meet the challenge of keeping enough workers in the pipeline.
Location Notebook: Jackson, Tennessee, Takes a Regional Economic Development Approach
The nine-county Jackson, Tennessee, region is focusing on its key infrastructure strengths as well as educational assets, while meeting challenges head-on, in order to continue to attract targeted industries.
Location Notebook: Union County, SC, Moves Forward
Union County, South Carolina, has pieced together a diverse economy from its historical textile roots.
Location Notebook: TVA Hitching Its Wagon to the Auto Industry
TVA is driving to make automotive manufacturing the cornerstone of the region.
Mississippi: A Top Manufacturing State Is Meeting Its Challenges Head On
In many parts of the country, manufacturing is more of a fond memory than a reality. Not so in Mississippi, which is very much a state that makes things.
Location Notebook: Union Pacific Intermodal Opens in Santa Teresa, New Mexico
The $400 million investment for the 2,200-acre site will connect businesses to strategic markets in the southwestern U.S. and beyond. It will provide logistics gains for shippers along its Sunset Line, which runs 760 miles from El Paso, Texas, to Los Angeles and serves key locations in Mexico and Arizona.
Location Notebook: Kentucky Keeps Its Economy On Track
As states throughout the nation struggled during the recession, Kentucky quickly acted to help its economy not only recover but also grow.
Greater Fort Lauderdale’s Business Climate Promotes Headquarters Growth
A development strategy touting its attractive quality of life as well as favorable business climate has made the Fort Lauderdale area a top choice for headquarters operations.
Opelika, Alabama Builds High-Speed On Ramp to the Future
Opelika is developing a comprehensive broadband fiberoptic system, connecting the city and a growing industrial base to the booming global business opportunities of the future.
Wisconsin’s Bioscience Industry Achieves Global Recognition
Wisconsin’s bioscience industry continues to expand, often led by spinoff companies that are established to commercialize groundbreaking university research.
Newark, DE Development Seminar to Explore Regional Real Estate, Workforce Issues of High-Tech Transformation
The key to economic development often lies in transforming existing assets and evolving new approaches to the workforce, and the workplace. This is especially true for a growing number of cities and locations around the U.S. where local officials have set their sights on the emerging innovation, or knowledge economy, and a new 'creative class' of workers as the best path to economic renewal.
The New Orleans' BioDistrict, a Model for Industry Collaboration
Spread over 1,500 acres across downtown New Orleans, BioDistrict New Orleans will be one of the largest developments in the world of biosciences.
Location Notebook: Data Centers Betting on Nevada
Nevada was largely built by people who don’t mind taking risks with their money. So it’s ironic that one of the state’s leading economic growth opportunities at the moment is coming from data centers, an industry that sees in Nevada an opportunity to avoid risk.
Birmingham's Economy Strengthens, Largely Unaffected by County Bankruptcy
Emerging from a recession is always tough for a city - it's even harder when the home county is in bankruptcy proceedings.
