New Jersey (NJ)
Ports and FTZs: Gateway to Fair Trade
A variety of incentives enable U.S.-based companies to compete in a global marketplace. Current economic conditions have moved the government to increase...
Mayor’s Report: Jersey City, New Jersey
New Jersey's Premier Destination
A fire on the moon
Forty years ago this week, three men were strapped into a metal capsule perched atop a 36-story marvel of engineering that had three million...
KABR Buys “Class A” NJ Office Space
KABR Real Estate Investment Partners, LLC announced today that it has purchased a 235,000-square-foot commercial office building in Ridgefield Park, NJ from AIG.
Jersey City, NJ
Metro Spotlight
The Real State of Commercial Real Estate
In our fifth annual top executive interview, Ross Moore, executive vice president at Colliers International, answers some tough questions about one of the nation's hardest-hit markets: commercial real estate.
Just another word for nothin’ left to lose
Mike Bloomberg grew up in Boston, but he pretends to be a New Yorker. The mayor of New York lives in a ritzy townhouse...
Growth Magnets
In hard times, economic development specialists have created unique and innovative incentive packages to help ease the financial burden on existing companies and make it attractive for new ones to locate to their states.
60 Seconds with Steve McKenna, Allied Van Lines, Vice President of Pricing and Contracts
BF: What economic advantages does Texas offer that have kept the state atop Allied's relocation destination list for the last four years? SM: Texas is...
Garden State Uses New Initiatives to Grow City Centers
Governor Jon Corzine is making a major effort to turn urban blight into a "gold mine" for companies relocating to big cities.
Foreign-Trade Zones—Global Expansion at Reduced Cost
Economic developers can leverage the benefits of FTZs to attract jobs and investment, while facilitating maintenance and expansion of their industrial base.
Rebuilding of World Trade Center site is still years away
Within months of the hideous terrorist attack in 2001 that destroyed the World Trade Center, state and city officials in New York unveiled ambitious...
Cali is Growing Smarter by the Mile
When I was an undergraduate student in Bethlehem, PA, I made a friend from California who told me something I still remember to this...
Editors’ Location Picks 2008
These gems didn't just catch our eye with a quick flash. Their consistent economic development sparkle earned them front-and-center display in our annual showcase.
Bioscience: Building Block for Growth
The biotechnology and pharmaceuticals sectors have become engines for economic development across the country.
Financial Centers: Critical Mass is Key
With so many new financial centers emerging in secondary cities around the U.S., where will your new location be?
2008 Mayors’ Report
Featuring reports from the Mayors of Jersey City, NJ, Decatur, IL, and New Lenox, IL
New Jersey Corporate Moves
Novo Opts to Grow in the Garden State
In March, health care company Novo Nordisk announced plans to expand its U.S. headquarters in Princeton,...
U.S. Bumper to Bumper Blues
With the familiar dread of my 5pm drive home on the New Jersey Garden State Parkway hovering, I have decided to ...
60 Seconds with Mark O’Connell, CEO of OCO Global
Mark O'Connell is the CEO of OCO Global, a consulting firm he founded in 2001 that specializes in international investment and trade. O’Connell also...