Spotlights

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Montana: The Last Best Place for Your Business to Grow

The outdoor industry faces workforce challenges, which creates growth barriers. Montana has answers to these challenges. With the highest high school ...

Governor Eric Holcomb, Secretary of Commerce David Rosenberg and U.S. Senator Todd Young join executives of Google to break ground on the company’s new $2 billion data center in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The company is one of four major cloud infrastructure providers to announce new data centers in Indiana in 2024, joining AWS, Meta and Microsoft. Photo provided by Indiana Economic Development Corporation

Igniting the Economy of the Future

New advancements in technology can be seen across Indiana’s vast manufacturing ecosystem – from aerospace, aviation and space exploration to agbioscie...

The sun sets along the South Carolina coastline. Photo provided by Perry Baker

South Carolina: Launching a Legacy

January 2024 ushered in a new era for South Carolina’s economic development strategy. To build upon decades of economic development achievement while ...

Georgia Quick Start and the Technical College System of GA broke ground at the Hyundai Mobility Training Center of Georgia in February, taking another step towards fulfilling the state's commitment to help Georgians fill the 8,500 new jobs Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America will create for the Savannah area. Photo provided by Georgia Quick Start

Georgia: Pro-Business Environment, Development-Ready Property, Record-Breaking Investment

Corporations consistently choose Georgia for relocations and expansions because of the supply of development-ready sites, skilled workforce and logist...

SK Food Group breaks ground on its new production facility in Cleveland, TN in September 2023. Photo provided by TNECD

Tennessee Builds on Its Reputation for Food and Beverage Excellence

Today, nearly 47,000 Tennesseans are employed by food and agriculture establishments, and thanks to state policies, these numbers are rising. Tennesse...

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Missouri Launches Into 2024 With Flurry of Business Attraction Announcements

Missouri is a magnet for new investment from global companies. Nestled in the center of North America, Missouri is positioned for a year of growth and...

Texas is a talent magnet with a highly skilled, diverse and growing workforce, offering job-ready talent across all industries and regions of the state. Photo provided by Toyota

Bigger. Better. Texas.

As the eighth-largest economy in the world, Texas offers boundless economic opportunity for companies of all sizes, and it continues to attract corpor...

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New York State Incentives Attract Business and Jobs

Governor Kathy Hochul announced that $57 million was awarded to support 238 projects across New York State through the Regional Economic Development C...

PA Governor Josh Shapiro unveils 10-year economic development strategy. Photo provided by Commonwealth Media Services

Pennsylvania Is Getting It Done

Since January 2023, the administration helped bring in more than $1.2 billion in private investment. It created the Office of Transformation and Oppor...

EVelution Energy, a U.S. electric vehicle battery materials processing company, announced in March 2023 the construction of a $200 million solar-powered, carbon-neutral cobalt sulfate production facility in Yuma County, Arizona. The first cobalt production facility in the U.S. will produce cobalt sulfate for EV batteries. Photo provided by the Arizona Commerce Authority

Arizona Becomes a Magnet for Green Projects

Since 2016, Arizona has celebrated five EV groundbreakings, including luxury carmaker Lucid and innovator Nikola. A growing EV manufacturing core has ...