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Transparency and Infrastructure Foresight as Competitive Advantages

Why Industrial Developers Are Turning to On-Site Energy

The Geography of Packaging: Why Location Strategy Matters More Than Ever

The New Industrial Revolution in Biotech

Navigating Generational Differences in Location and Workplace Strategy

In Focus: Korea’s Blueprint for Sustainable U.S. Expansion

The Permit Puzzle and the Path to Groundbreaking

Workforce Is the New Incentive in Life Sciences

The Site Selection Corporate Checklist

Too Much of a Good Thing: Can Overbuilt Spec Development Benefit Manufacturers?

Electrons Are the New Gatekeepers

Your Next Factory Might Already Be Built

Site Readiness Is Broken: What Manufacturers Should Demand From Their Locations

How Canada Stays Competitive

How Consumer Trends Are Reshaping Food Facilities

Rewriting the Rules of Warehouse ROI

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Site Selection

The AI Arms Race Comes to Your Backyard

Around the Horn: North America’s Trade Tensions

Tariffs After the Supreme Court: A Detour, Not a Dead End

Preparing for the Next USMCA Shake-Up

Optimizing Your Rail-Served Transportation Network: Strategy Before Steel

The Quest for Logistics Supremacy

Around the Horn: A Discussion About the Cost, Sustainability, and Innovation in Rail Infrastructure for Modern Supply Chains

The Battle to Break China’s Rare Earth Supply Chain Dominance

Transparency and Infrastructure Foresight as Competitive Advantages

How AI Is Reshaping the Way Communities Compete for Investment

What Does “Site Readiness” Really Mean?

Editor's Note: Raising the Bar on Readiness

Last Word: When Incentives Lead, Projects Follow—Often in the Wrong Direction

Capitalizing on the OBBBA Before the 2026 Cliff

The Compliance Reckoning Is Here

The Legal Limits of DEI in Incentives Agreements, Hiring, and Contracting

Facility Planning

A Single Front Door for Corporate Investment in Fort Worth

The Crucial Role of Hazardous Material Awareness in Manufacturing Facility Design

Why Smaller May Be Better for Some Businesses

First Person: Putting a Cyber Defense Plan in Place

JLL, InfraPartners Bet Prefab Can Cut AI Data Center Timelines by Up to 22 Months

Phillip Morris International Starting Building Before Plans

Who’s Liable When AI Builds?

Why Utilities Are Becoming Developers

Energy, Infrastructure, and Innovation: Building America's Future

Amazon’s First Mass Timber Delivery Station Tests the Future of Low-Carbon Logistics

Laying the Future’s Foundation in Rowen

How Greeley, Colorado Is Using Aquifers to Future-Proof Its Economy

Workforce Development

Where Workforce Capacity Is Being Built — and Where It’s Being Deployed

What to Make of the Rising Trend of Salary Transparency in Job Descriptions

What If the Longshoremen's Strike Had Persisted? Examining the Potential Economic Fallout

Impact of the Latest Minimum Wage Increases

AI Isn’t Killing Jobs—It’s Reshaping Hiring

The Workforce Bottleneck in America’s Manufacturing Revival

The Skilled Trades Are Ready for a Digital Future

What We’re Getting Wrong About Gen Z’s Future in the Skilled Trades

The Office Is Back but Is the Portfolio Strategy Aligned?

Navigating Generational Differences in Location and Workplace Strategy

Why People Now Drive Place Strategy

Why Art Belongs in Industrial Spaces

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20th Annual Area Development Gold and Silver Shovel Awards

Editor’s Note: Making Sense of the Shifts

The Newest Shovel Award—It's Green!

19th Annual Area Development Gold and Silver Shovel Awards

When Natural Gas Can’t Move, Compute Can

New Tech Havens Bloom as Digitization Transforms U.S. Economy

Manhattan’s Old Ramps, New Logistics

Peek a Boo Data Centers

Leading Metro Locations 2025: Smaller Markets, Stronger Momentum

2024's Leading Metro Locations Commentary: Kathy Mussio

2024's Leading Metro Locations Methodology

2024's Leading Metro Locations: U.S. Cities on the Rise Amid an Economic Reshuffling

2025’s Top States for Business: How the Winners Are Outpacing the Rest

Editor’s Note: Thriving at the Intersection of Change

Top States for Doing Business in 2024: A Continued Legacy of Excellence

2022 Top States Workforce Development Programs

Property Markets

40th Annual Corporate and 22nd Annual Consultant Site Selection Survey Results

Less Is More for Energy Industry Offices