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Where Quantum Science is PERFECTED

Oct 15, 2024 | siteselection.com | Mark Arend

On July 25, Palo Alto, California–based PsiQuantum, a maker of quantum computers, announced plans to build a 300,000-sq.-ft. Quantum Computer Operations Center at a former U.S. Steel site on the south side of Chicago.
Tourism Grants Make All of Illinois a Destination

Oct 15, 2024 | siteselection.com | Mark Arend

Tourism and hospitality are big businesses in Illinois, and Governor JB Pritzker intends to keep it that way. In October 2023, he and the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) announced two tourism grant programs worth $15.4 million to support and enhance tourism-related projects, events and festivals across the state. The $10.8 million Tourism Attractions Grant Program funds improvements to tourism attractions so they will increase their economic impact.
Micron’s new memory manufacturing fab in Boise lures workers with a child care facility.

Oct 2, 2024 | siteselection.com | Mark Arend

When Micron Technology announced a $15 billion investment through the end of the decade in a new memory manufacturing fab in Boise in September 2022, it was and still is the largest private project in Idaho’s history. Construction commenced in October 2023 on the plant which will employ about 2,000 people when complete. It’s the first new memory fab project in the U.S. in 20 years. The company says dynamic random-access memory, or DRAM, production will begin in the latter part of the decade.
The Critical Minerals Supply Chain Is Coming Home

Oct 1, 2024 | siteselection.com | Mark Arend

North America has plenty of rare earth minerals, including neodymium and praseodymium, which are critical to electric vehicle (EV) mobility. Australia-based American Rare Earths Inc. said in early 2024, for example, that it found 2.34 billion metric tons in southeastern Wyoming, 64% more than it thought was there in 2023. Huge deposits of critical minerals are being mined at Mountain Pass, California, and Tamarack, Minnesota, among other locations.
DOES YOUR STATE MAKE THE CUT?

Sep 30, 2024 | siteselection.com | Mark Arend

Ask 10 location experts what their top quality of life ingredient is, and you’ll likely get about 10 different answers. Most would agree that housing costs and availability, education options, cultural amenities and commute times are high on their list, but it varies from person to person. Personal finance company WalletHub released in August its 2024 Best States to Live In, which uses 51 indicators of livability to compare the 50 states.
Next-Gen Industries Invest in Next-Gen Facilities

Sep 10, 2024 | siteselection.com | Mark Arend

Back in the day, there was a great future in plastics, as Mr. McGuire (Walter Brooke) told Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) in “The Graduate.” Today, that line would likely substitute plastics with advanced materials. Composites, engineered polymers, hybrid materials and nanomaterials were unheard of in 1967 when the movie was released.
Beauty and the Best Location

Sep 10, 2024 | siteselection.com | Mark Arend

There’s a good chance the beauty salon you pass by on your commute to work is a customer of Olivia Garden, a leading producer of such salon tools as hairbrushes, curling irons, hair dryers and combs, among other products. Founded in Liège, Belgium, in 1967, the company distributes its products to customers in more than 100 countries. Liège remains the company’s European headquarters. The headquarters for everywhere else is in Antioch, California.
The Garden State's Support for Innovators Is SIC

Aug 13, 2024 | siteselection.com | Mark Arend

Strategic Innovation Centers (SIC) for R&D, innovation, networking, business support and other services are boosting lesser-known industries than New Jersey’s signature life sciences industry, among others. The latest SIC, launched in June, is the Aerospace Innovation Center (AIC) in Atlantic City, an initiative of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority and the Atlantic County Improvement Authority.
Where Quantum Computing Is Taking Root

Aug 9, 2024 | siteselection.com | Mark Arend

Location analysis applications of quantum computing have yet to be developed, but that day will come. Still an emerging science, quantum computing operates at the atomic level to solve computations at speeds that put supercomputers to shame.
How Oklahoma Stocks Its Aviation Talent Pond

Aug 9, 2024 | siteselection.com | Mark Arend

Oklahoma’s commitment to aerospace education is hard to beat, and it’s a big part of why aerospace is among the state’s most important industries. Nine higher education institutions in Oklahoma have aerospace degree and certificate programs, including Oklahoma State University’s doctorate in unmanned aerial systems (UAS) design, the first such program in the U.S.But there’s more to Oklahoma’s aerospace education commitment than that.