Determining a site has market potential to be an industrial park is not the end of the effort to create a higher and better use for the land.  To retain and attract manufacturing, research and development and logistics companies and centers, the sites need to have a Public-Private-Partnership to ensure the site is properly zoned, […]

Rising interest rates have slowed to a crawl the development of private sector speculative industrial space.  This presents an opportunity for communities to use an “old” tool to create public sector industrial parks to capture the manufacturing product that remains strong throughout the United States.  Industrial developers across the Country, and in particular Midwest markets

It was the best of times… it was the worst of times… to quote Charles Dickens speaking of life during the French Revolution has an interesting application tied to the impact of the 2024 U.S. election on corporate site location projects.  While the U.S. is not experiencing the Reign of Terror it just feels like

Most really good parties result in an equally strong hangover.  2024 will likely be a hangover and not a party year.  The federal government, in response first to COVID-19 and then based upon a political turnover to the Democrats in Washington, ran the money printing press 24 hours a day.  The Congress with the support

The Montrose Group 2024 corporate site location trends illustrate the growing impact of a slowing U.S. economy.  Based upon the Montrose Group’s negotiation of over 300 corporate site location projects, annually the firm releases a top 10 corporate site location trends.  The corporate site location process decides where a company is located, and this process

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The Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) is working on drafting the rules for the newly created Single-Family Housing Tax Credit program that provides $50 million a year in ten-year tax credits, for four years, to incentivize the construction of new single-family homes for Ohio’s growing workforce. OHFA facilitates the development, rehabilitation, and financing of low-