Arizona Commerce Authority

The new semiconductor and display material manufacturing facility will create more than 100 jobs in Chandler, AZ.

The Intel expansion project — the largest private investment in state history — includes the construction of two new semiconductor fabrication facilities and will create 3,000 high-tech, high-wage jobs.

The electric vehicle designer and manufacturer will establish its U.S.-based assembly facility and engineering technical center in Mesa, AZ.

The Fortune 500 used car retailer will open a new contact center in Tempe, AZ by the end of this year.

The window and door maker will build a new manufacturing campus in Goodyear, AZ, creating 415 jobs over five years.

The 450,000-square-foot facility within the Elliot Road Technology Corridor in Mesa, AZ will create up to 55 new jobs.

The region’s large, skilled workforce, high quality of life, pro-business climate and creative office space options like The Circuit were attractive draws for the company.

Caterpillar Inc. will create more than 600 new jobs over five years at its new surface mining and technology offices in Tucson, AZ.

The facility will serve as a member and provider call center for Centene's Arizona-based Bridgeway Health Solutions and other health plans across the country.

The 2013 Economic Development Deal of the Year recognizes the locations and economic development agencies that landed the highest impact projects announced between July 1, 2012 and December 1, 2013. This year, the game-changing transformation of a former solar panel plant in Mesa, AZ into a new $1.5-billion manufacturing facility for tech giant Apple takes the top prize.

Greater Phoenix takes top prize for Apple's new manufacturing plant.

Direct Energy will move into the new facility in February. The company expects the call center to be fully functional by the end of the first quarter of 2013.