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Texas Leads Our 2026 State Leaderboard, With Ohio Close Behind

Oct 26, 2026

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2 min read

Leaderboard

Texas Leads Our 2026 State Leaderboard, With Ohio Close Behind

396 location decisions, $594 billion and 41 states. Here's who is winning 2026 by projects, jobs and dollars.

Andy Greiner

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RECENTS

Oct 12, 2026

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3 min read

Sector Intelligence

Data Centers Are Moving Into New Markets. Matt Landek Wants to Build the Workforce to Run Them.

Matt Landek's L5 Mission Critical, an operator powered by Walbridge, is betting that eliminating the handover gap, and investing in local communities through training, can fix some of the industry's growing pains.

Andy Greiner

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Oct 19, 2026

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8 min read

Sector Intelligence

Who Really Owns the Next Shipyard?

A defined customer requirement can pull private capital into shipbuilding. Keeping a yard productive after the first contract depends on who owns the site, who operates it and who carries the risk.

Brian Curry

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Oct 19, 2026

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3 min read

Movers & Shakers

Movers, Shakers & Hot Jobs: A New Leader in Bowling Green, IEDC Honors and Six-Figure Openings

This week: Connected Nation's founder takes over economic development in Bowling Green, IEDC's award winners head to New Orleans and a data center developer tops six six-figure job openings.

Kimberly Graulein

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THE NOTEBOOK

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Across the Table

The Site Selection Risk Nobody Was Measuring Three Years Ago

Strategic Development Partners’ Taylor Stepp on scarce power, the rise of smaller markets, the “pioneer’s dilemma” and why community sentiment has become standard due diligence.

Andy Greiner

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Oct 15, 2026

More reporting

Market Intelligence

Oklahoma City's Long Game: Aerospace, Life Sciences and Four Decades of Diversification

Greater Oklahoma City has an $8.8 billion aerospace economy, a new $150 million bet on biomedical research and 90,000 more residents than it had five years ago. Chamber President and CEO Christy Gillenwater explains how the industries that built the city are feeding the ones that come next.

Andy Greiner

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Oct 20, 2026

Behind the Deal

Why KIHOMAC Wanted the Land Across the Street From Tinker

The defense contractor knew exactly where it wanted to grow in Oklahoma City. The work was assembling a few acres next to the base gate.

Andy Greiner

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Oct 5, 2026

Sector Intelligence

Where Can America Build More Ships?

Before comparing states, a region has to know which piece of the production process it can deliver, and what it will take to get that capacity working.

Brian Curry

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Oct 1, 2026

Why Here?

Why Here? Iowa's $15 Billion Steel Project Has No Confirmed Site. The Infrastructure May Tell Us Where It Lands.

The announcement came first. Now comes the location decision. We're reporting on the power, gas, water, transportation, workforce and public investment that could decide where the mill gets built.

Andy Greiner

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Sep 29, 2026

Behind the Deal

Behind the Deal: Camco Bet on Northern Kentucky Long Before It Needed the Space

Camco Chemical’s latest expansion was years in the making, shaped more by land, logistics, local relationships and room to grow than by incentives.

Andy Greiner

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Sep 24, 2026

Market Intelligence

Market Intelligence: In Phoenix, Available Land and Usable Land Are Becoming Two Different Things

Industrial demand is returning across the Valley, but Alliance Industrial’s Brady Maus says infrastructure, especially power distribution, is narrowing the pool of sites that can support the next wave of growth.

Andy Greiner

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Sep 16, 2026

Series

Contested Ground

Developers vs. the Neighbors: His Company Wants to Put a Number on It

Learnewable scores every U.S. county on how residents and local rules treat solar, wind, battery storage and data centers. Over the past year, its founder says, data centers have moved the wrong way.

St. Joseph County Council vs. new hyperscale data centers: split 6-3 vote starts drafting a ban

The Indiana county already hosts AWS and Microsoft campuses, which the proposed ban would not touch.

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Second Shift

Three People Who Built Careers in the Trades, From a Charlottesville Service Bay to a Marshall Barbershop

An auto-tech apprentice and a former tech worker turned electrical apprentice in Charlottesville, Va., and a barber who now owns his building in Marshall, Texas.

Career-Center Culinary Grad Mya Gonsalves Cooks Her Way to a Chef's Job in Westerville and a Spot on 'Hell's Kitchen'

The 2019 Knox County Career Center Student of the Year now cooks at NAPA Kitchen + Bar and credits her high-school instructor's lessons for carrying her onto national TV, Richland Source reports.

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Independent reporting on where companies invest, why locations win and the people making the calls.

Texas Leads Our 2026 State Leaderboard, With Ohio Close Behind

Data Centers Are Moving Into New Markets. Matt Landek Wants to Build the Workforce to Run Them.

Who Really Owns the Next Shipyard?

Movers, Shakers & Hot Jobs: A New Leader in Bowling Green, IEDC Honors and Six-Figure Openings

The Site Selection Risk Nobody Was Measuring Three Years Ago

Oklahoma City's Long Game: Aerospace, Life Sciences and Four Decades of Diversification

Why KIHOMAC Wanted the Land Across the Street From Tinker

Where Can America Build More Ships?

Why Here? Iowa's $15 Billion Steel Project Has No Confirmed Site. The Infrastructure May Tell Us Where It Lands.

Behind the Deal: Camco Bet on Northern Kentucky Long Before It Needed the Space

Market Intelligence: In Phoenix, Available Land and Usable Land Are Becoming Two Different Things

Developers vs. the Neighbors: His Company Wants to Put a Number on It

St. Joseph County Council vs. new hyperscale data centers: split 6-3 vote starts drafting a ban

Three People Who Built Careers in the Trades, From a Charlottesville Service Bay to a Marshall Barbershop

Career-Center Culinary Grad Mya Gonsalves Cooks Her Way to a Chef's Job in Westerville and a Spot on 'Hell's Kitchen'

EDO AI Playbook

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