• Steve Kaelble, Staff Editor, Area Development

With concerns about climate change now supplanting pandemic fears, projects to produce EVs — and the semiconductors used by vehicles and other high-tech goods — come to the forefront in this year’s Shovel Awards report.

• Steven Tozier, Managing Director, EY

Your business may benefit from economic developers’ new targeted approaches that support new norms in the workplace, promote inclusive economic recovery, and place ESG at the center of their value proposition.

• David Hickey, Managing Director, Hickey & Associates

New governors of eight states reveal their ideas for strengthening their states’ economies and growing their business bases.

• Dale D. Buss, Staff Editor, Area Development

With its well-established infrastructure, leading workforce-development programs, and right-to-work states, the South Atlantic region continues to attract advanced technology companies.

• Steve Kaelble, Staff Editor, Area Development

The P&G win was an important one for the state, providing validation that West Virginia can be a competitive place to do business.