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6 ways to streamline your location search

The location search is one of the most complex and consequential processes a business can undertake. With such high stakes, it’s important to have a clear game plan. Discover the six factors that will help Businesses and Site Selection Consultants lead a successful, streamlined search.

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What Virginia’s winning Amazon HQ2 bid teaches us about approaching a location search

Businesses, Site Selection Consultants, and Economic Developers can take vital lessons from Amazon’s process to choose its second headquarters. In this article, Founder and CEO, Sean Brazier, offers insights he gained as the lead author of Virginia’s winning bid for Amazon’s HQ2 and outlines the three impactful takeaways every business, Site Selection Consultant, and Economic Developer should know.

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Download our ebook for exclusive insights on location searches

With the help of this ebook, you’ll learn how to: 

  • Effectively scope your project and define key goals and success factors
  • Quickly determine a community shortlist that’s unique to your business needs
  • Easily analyze current project affordability and future business profitability
  • Learn the role non-financial considerations play in the process
  • Choose the ideal community for your business’s new locationb

Download our whitepaper on the costs of doing business for the top 100 metro areas​

With the help of this whitepaper, you’ll gain access to key data covering: 

  • Metro area cost estimates for three project archetypes: professional services firm, manufacturing plant, and a distribution center
  • Cost estimates for salaries and benefits, real estate, utilities, and taxes
  • Profitability estimates to allow for standardized comparisons across metro areas

Download our ebook for exclusive insights on location search

With the help of this ebook, you’ll learn how to: 

  • Effectively scope your project and define key goals and success factors
  • Quickly determine a community shortlist that’s unique to your business needs
  • Easily analyze current project affordability and future business profitability
  • Learn the role non-financial considerations play in the process
  • Choose the ideal community for your business’s new location

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5 realities of economic development incentives, and how to improve their impact

States and localities spend over $80B per year on economic development incentives, but how effective are they at increasing jobs, capital investment, and quality of life in their communities? Find out how to improve the use of this economic development tactic and get practical tips on how to enhance the impact and limit the waste.

Practical

Assessing talent: Focus on what matters to your location search

Talent is often the most important factor in any company’s location decision or economic development discussion, but Businesses, Economic Developers, and Policymakers often measure it differently. Learn the questions you should be asking to truly understand a community’s current and future talent prospects.

Practical

6 ways to streamline your location search

The location search is one of the most complex and consequential processes a business can undertake. With such high stakes, it’s important to have a clear game plan. Discover the six factors that will help Businesses and Site Selection Consultants lead a successful, streamlined search.

Category

Practical

5 realities of economic development incentives, and how to improve their impact

States and localities spend over $80B per year on economic development incentives, but how effective are they at increasing jobs, capital investment, and quality of life in their communities? Find out how to improve the use of this economic development tactic and get practical tips on how to enhance the impact and limit the waste.

Practical

Assessing talent: Focus on what matters to your location search

Talent is often the most important factor in any company’s location decision or economic development discussion, but Businesses, Economic Developers, and Policymakers often measure it differently. Learn the questions you should be asking to truly understand a community’s current and future talent prospects.

Practical

6 ways to streamline your location search

The location search is one of the most complex and consequential processes a business can undertake. With such high stakes, it’s important to have a clear game plan. Discover the six factors that will help Businesses and Site Selection Consultants lead a successful, streamlined search.

Category

Practical

5 realities of economic development incentives, and how to improve their impact

States and localities spend over $80B per year on economic development incentives, but how effective are they at increasing jobs, capital investment, and quality of life in their communities? Find out how to improve the use of this economic development tactic and get practical tips on how to enhance the impact and limit the waste.

Practical

Assessing talent: Focus on what matters to your location search

Talent is often the most important factor in any company’s location decision or economic development discussion, but Businesses, Economic Developers, and Policymakers often measure it differently. Learn the questions you should be asking to truly understand a community’s current and future talent prospects.

Practical

6 ways to streamline your location search

The location search is one of the most complex and consequential processes a business can undertake. With such high stakes, it’s important to have a clear game plan. Discover the six factors that will help Businesses and Site Selection Consultants lead a successful, streamlined search.

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