Adam Bruns

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.