Adam Bruns

Peachtree Corners

Editor in Chief, Site Selection; Inst. for Citizens & Scholars Higher Ed Media Fellow; poet; husband, father, brother, son; yoga; tennis; dogs; compassion

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Articles

State Flags Should be Changed

Nov 18, 2024 | psuvanguard.com | J.J. Christensen |John Pinney |Alex Wittwer |Adam Bruns

As I write this, it is currently one day before election night. I do not know who is going to win, and I am actually quite worn out from writing and thinking about politics. This is a very controversial time electorally though, and so I can’t reallyescape it. I don’t even want to escape it. I think being educated about politics and following it on any level is fundamentally important.
No Better Place to Be Global

Oct 15, 2024 | siteselection.com | Adam Bruns

Odyssey Logistics has a slogan: “Movement is life.”No three words could better describe the logistics lifeblood of the Chicagoland and Illinois economies. When we ran the numbers in Site Selection magazine’s proprietary Conway Projects Database to see where all major corporate end-user facility investments with a distribution function were located since January 2019, Chicagoland and its 1,186 projects beat out second-place Dallas-Fort Worth by more than 350 projects for No. 1 in the nation.
Green Everywhere You Look

Oct 11, 2024 | siteselection.com | Adam Bruns

Five years after Governor JB Pritzker signed into law the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, Illinois is showing evidence of how real the green energy economy can be. You can even find it near the green ivy at the legendary Wrigley Field on Chicago’s North Side, where the Chicago Cubs and Invenergy in June announced an agreement making the Chicago-based global developer, owner and operator of clean energy solutions the “Official Solar Provider” of the Cubs and Wrigley Field.
Site Selection Snapshot - October 10, 2024

Oct 9, 2024 | siteselection.com | Adam Bruns

Attendees from Japan and Hong Kong share a jubilant moment at WorldSkills 2024 in Lyon, France. Photo courtesy of WorldSkills How do you get 100,000 visitors to your city because of vocational education? Put your city in France, for starters. And invite everyone. WorldSkills, the global skills competition in skills ranging from butchery, CNC milling and carpentry to mechatronics, baking and welding, wrapped in September in Lyon, France.
Investments in its home country and in Germany demonstrate French biopharma giant Sanofi’s commitment to European production.

Oct 8, 2024 | siteselection.com | Adam Bruns

In May Sanofi announced an investment of more than €1 billion to create new bioproduction capacity at its sites in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val de Marne), Le Trait (Seine-Maritime) and Lyon Gerland (Rhône). “This plan brings to more than €3.5 billion the amount committed by Sanofi since the COVID-19 pandemic in major projects to keep production of medicines and vaccines in France for patients around the world,” the company stated.
Centennial Yards sets the tone for Atlanta’s future.

Oct 1, 2024 | siteselection.com | Adam Bruns

In a world overflowing with fake downtowns, the real thing can be refreshing. Unless, of course, it’s got a big hole in its heart.
Projects and progress stretch across multiple industries and an entire region.

Sep 30, 2024 | siteselection.com | Adam Bruns

Is there a Moore’s Law for good news? The measuring stick for the semiconductor industry posited by Intel’s Gordon Moore projected that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) would double around every two years. In the context of good news for the industry in Arizona, the pace of new investment and expansions seems more like every two months … if not two weeks or even two days.
Laying the Foundation for Innovation

Sep 30, 2024 | siteselection.com | Adam Bruns

You know a state commerce department is doing something right when it achieves 1,250% of its goal for capital investment from growing companies. That’s what the Arizona Commerce Authority reported on the final day of June 2024, as corporate end users during the 2024 fiscal year committed to more than $50 billion in expansions that will create more than 24,250 jobs.
Losing Pounds and Gaining Partners Key to North Carolina Life Sciences Momentum

Sep 26, 2024 | siteselection.com | Adam Bruns

Denmark’s Novo Nordisk has been producing and growing its business in Clayton, North Carolina, for 31 years. It’s not about to make an all-in bet on the state without having its ducks in a row. In June the 101-year-old company, whose sales in the first half of 2024 reached $19.3 billion, announced it would invest $4.1 billion and add 1.4 million sq. ft.
Site Selection Snapshot - September 19, 2024

Sep 18, 2024 | siteselection.com | Adam Bruns

In the past two weeks we’ve examined the geographic distribution of this year’s Inc. 5000 by state and through the regional prism of metro areas and cities. Now it’s time to take a look at the numbers by business sector and how those sectors break out by location. Even a cursory glance at the country’s fastest-growing companies reveals they’re primarily embedded in the digital economy (isn’t everything?).