Economic Growth

Caribbean Connections from Site Selection, August 1995. Growth-enhancing infrastructure is helping the Caribbean islands bloom as business locations.
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Chemicals, Cars Dominate in 1991 As Giant Facilities Take Global Tack by Hoyt E. Coffee from Site Selection, February 1992. The biggest-money manufacturers spread their dollars around the globe in 1991.
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Economic Development Acquires Professional Polish Over the Years by Audrey Pennington from Site Selection, December 1994. Liquid Paper to laptop computers. ID to ED. Competition to cooperation. The times they are a-changin' for folks who commit deliberate acts of economic development.
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Food Products Still No. 1, Transportation Tumbles in '91 Tally of U.S. Manufacturing Facilities by Hoyt E. Coffee from Site Selection, February 1992. Bigger proved to be better amid last year's recessionary economy.
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Good News, Bad News from Business Parks: Hello, Business Boom; Adios, Big Giveaways by Tim Venable from Site Selection, December 1994. The U.S. real estate market is back with a vengeance. But lavish concessions like free rent are drying up for tenants in U.S. business parks. In many other countries, even more bullish growth is translating into a park picture typified by full occupancy rates -- and incentives have nothing to do with it.
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Ireland Attracts Wave of New Manufacturing Investments by Tim Venable from Site Selection, August 1994. In the first half of 1994, Ireland has landed a bevy of new and expanded corporate facilities that will create more than 4,200 jobs and involve some US $543 million in capital investment.
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Marketing Muscle: How Ohio Does It by John Damschroder, Special Projects Dir. Ohio Dept. of Development from Site Selection, April 1996. The No.1 state in new facilities and expansions for three consecutive years, Ohio first had to correct a major imbalance between supply and demand. Here's an insider's account of how the Buckeye state did it.
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The New Business Location Process: Who's Driving and What's Steering? by Tim Venable from Site Selection, April 1996. Surprise. Incentives aren't steering, quality labor is.
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