Karen Thuermer, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q2 2020)
Locations in the middle part of the country provide an alternative to coastal seaports while providing quick intermodal connections to the nation’s interior.More
Donald F. Smith, Jr., RIDC of Southwestern Pennsylvania (Q2 2018)
Companies in emerging industries need to feel they are working in partnership with the developers/landlords who are trying to attract them to their properties.More
Karen Thuermer, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q1 2018)
High driver turnover, the new mandate limiting drivers’ hours on the road, and the boom in e-commerce are spurring the adoption of driverless trucks.More
Dan Emerson, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q1 2018)
The 20 finalist locations for Amazon’s second headquarters location include several smaller cities that are not typically thought of as technology centers.More
Dan Emerson, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q4 2017)
Like contestants at a beauty pageant, cities across the U.S. and Canada are eagerly awaiting the announcement: where will Amazon decide to build its new $5 billion second headquarters, which will create 50,000 jobs? More
Tom Ewing, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q4 2017)
With the realization that major infrastructure projects are critical to economic development, the federal government is attempting to streamline the environmental permitting process.More
Mark Crawford, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q3 2017)
Among the goals of Apple’s $1billion fund is the creation of thousands of new manufacturing jobs, especially in the computers and electronics fields.More
Tom Ewing, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q2 2017)
Comments in response to the Office of Policy and Strategic Planning’s request-for-information about federal permitting and regulatory challenges will identify some of the specific obstacles businesses face when trying to achieve growth.More
Dan Emerson, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q1 2017)
Funding provided by the 21st Century Cures Act, as well changes in FDA approval procedures, may lead pharma and medical device companies to expand their operations, with an eye on U.S. locations to accommodate the new administration’s interventions.More
Tom Ewing, Staff Editor, Area Development (Directory 2017)
September 30th marked an important clean air deadline. That’s when governors had to send EPA a list of in-state regions judged to comply, or not, with the revised ozone (O3) standard, changed one year earlier, October 1, 2015. More
Karen Thuermer, Staff Editor, Area Development (Directory 2017)
The Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), signed into law in May, 2016 by President Obama, has received wide industry praise from manufacturers as well as industry trade organizations.More
Karen Thuermer, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q4 2016)
Realizing that women are an untapped labor pool for manufacturers, several companies are undertaking initiatives to recruit and develop the best female talent.More
Mark Crawford, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q4 2016)
Trucking companies are facing numerous regulations, an aging workforce and tightening conditions for hauling capacity, all of which will have a significant impact on corporate supply chains.More
Tom Ewing, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q3 2016)
With the formation of the Compact of Mayors, cities worldwide are preparing GHG inventories for buildings and transport and hope to link this data to development priorities.More
Dale D. Buss, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q2 2016)
The fluidity of digital innovation - and its lack of dependence on a traditional industrial infrastructure - means that tech havens are blooming in newer magnets where tech-savvy workers are prevalent, ranging from Ann Arbor, Michigan to Richmond, Virginia.More
Dan Emerson, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q2 2016)
When companies decide to invest in new, custom-built manufacturing or distribution center facilities, they typically do so because of a lack of existing buildings that would meet their needs. But investing in a new facility doesn’t always mean long-term ownership. Sometimes companies opt to sell the facility and then lease it back. More
Dale D. Buss, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q1 2016)
Startup fever is exploding across America, as a slow-growth economy, corporate job cutbacks, and the work ethos and expectations of the burgeoning millennial generation reshape the business landscape. More
Mark Crawford, Staff Editor, Area Development (Directory 2016)
The FAA is in the process of establishing regulations for the commercial use of drones, the use of which is also supposed to be a boon to the telecommunications industry.More
Mark Crawford, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q4 2015)
There is a growing population of workers who, by choice, prefer to work part-time hours. According to a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics figure cited by Bloomberg, six million Americans are choosing to work part time — an increase of about 12 percent since 2007.More
Karen Thuermer, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q4 2015)
This year Walmart partnered with the Reshoring Initiative to help companies manufacture more consumer products in the U.S. The mission of the Reshoring Initiative is to bring good, well-paying manufacturing jobs back to the United States by assisting companies to more accurately assess their total cost of offshoring, and shift collective thinking from “offshoring is cheaper” to “local reduces the total cost of ownership.”More
Karen Thuermer, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q3 2015)
Manufacturers of imported and exported goods between the United States and Asia let out a huge sigh of relief in late May when a five-year contract that governs pay and work rules at 29 West Coast ports was finally ratified. Despite the ratified agreement, manufacturers are certain that strikes and delays will continue at West Coast ports.More
Karen Thuermer, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q2 2015)
Bioresearch got a shot in the arm when the National Institutes of Health announced that three proof-of-concept hubs would join three already existing Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hubs: The Long Island Bioscience Hub, The University of Louisville and The University of Minnesota.More
Karen Thuermer, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q2 2015)
To date, 28 cities across the country have come together under a pilot program called the Global Cities Initiative (GCI) to develop their foreign direct investment plans and volume of exports. More