North Carolina: Incentives Create Economic Firepower

By David Hodes

More jobs, more industry. That’s the outcome of the economic development in North Carolina, fueled in part by both a reorganization of economic development, plus an incentive package shot in the arm.

Kim Genardo, director of strategic and economic communications for the North Carolina Department of…

California: Economic Growth on Fast Track

By David Hodes

Photo courtesy of City of Hesperia

It’s a new day in California, and economic developers are making it known that the hard times of the economic downturn are gone.

Brook Taylor, deputy director of the governor’s office of business and economic development, also known as…

Florida: Aerospace Flies Higher, Jobs Take Off

By David Hodes

Florida is continuing on a path of major economic developments begun essentially in 2010, when the recession faded away and more businesses were either retooling their operations or reworking their development objectives. The result has been an explosion in jobs in the state.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott…

Arizona is Ready for Entrepreneurs

By David Hodes

Caption: The Salt River Project intends to deploy BASELAYER’s modular data center technology in locations near its existing electrical infrastructure where they can be connected directly to the energy grid. SRP DataStations would allow for data center growth with minimal impact to the community in relation…

New Mexico: Incentives Behind Explosive Growth

By David Hodes

Caption: Grand opening of Santa Teresa’s Union Pacific project. Gov. Susana Martinez is in the center with other elected officials, including Chihuahua, Mexico’s Governor, Cesar Duarte, on the far left. Photo: New Mexico Economic Development Department

New Mexico’s economic development structure is helping businesses…