Montrose Group 2020 Corporate Site Location Trends

Electric Vehicles to Drive Major Corporate Site Location Projects Nickolas Otto in 1876 invented the four-stroke internal combustion engine in which in which combustion occurs (aka burning) inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace generating motive power by the burning of fuels such as petrol and oil.[i]  Considering the fact that the $3.6 […]

Montrose Group 2022 Corporate Site Location Trends

South and Southwestern Will Continue to Grow Demographic and economic growth factors will continue to combine in 2022 to make corporate site location projects increase in the southern and southwestern United States. This is a long-term trend that continues over the last several decades as low-cost southern markets attract global manufacturing firms and manufacturing that […]

Corporate Site Location Market and Industry Analysis Critical to Company Site Decision

Companies who have decided on launching a corporate site location process should start with an analysis of a list of regions economic market performance and whether those markets are home to companies of like industries in which they can share public policy, infrastructure and workforce benefits.  Market research begins to define growing economic, industry cluster, […]

Answers to Six Questions Define a Corporate Site Location Project

The corporate site location process begins with defining the project to learn about the industry, number of jobs, payroll and capital investment planned by a company, needs for the project site and geographic markets that fit the company’s business plan leading to the creation of potential state and regional target list for the company’s location. […]

Five Steps for Corporate Site Location Process Support Company Success

The corporate site location process decides where a company locates, and, while Princeton Economics estimates companies gain $30B in economic development incentives, this process is about a lot more than tax incentives and involves five distinct steps. Montrose Group Corporate Site Location Process   Project Definition. Companies whose lease is expiring, have expected job growth […]

Interns Help Ohio Businesses Achieve Export Success

The Ohio Export Internship Program gives businesses the help they need to expand sales to new markets. The Ohio Export Internship Program matches businesses interested in growing exports with highly motivated college students who have taken export-focused coursework. The Ohio Department of Development offers participating small to medium-sized businesses a 50 percent reimbursement for the […]

Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit Program Round 27 Winners Announced and Round 28 Opening

The Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit Program provides a tax credit to leverage the private redevelopment of historic buildings. The program is highly competitive and receives applications bi-annually in March and September.  With 27 rounds of funding complete, tax credits have been approved for over 500 projects to rehabilitate over nearly 800 historic buildings in […]

Ohio Landbanks Play Critical Role in Community Development

The emergence of the $150 M Ohio Building Demolition and Site Revitalization Program and the role of the Ohio landbanks has brought these critical community development organizations to center stage.  Ohio’s county land bank concept was based on a successful program in Genesee County, Michigan, which includes the industrial city of Flint. The Genesee County land […]

Redevelopment Projects Benefit from a Wide Range of Local and State Partnership

Redeveloping an existing building has always been more complicated and expensive than transforming a corn field into an office or industrial complex.  However, a new generation of workers are driving communities and companies to take another look at transforming existing structures into new housing, office and commercial opportunities. In fact, historic rehabilitation for communities large […]