What Cerner’s $4.45 Billion Project Means to Kansas City

Cerner Corp.’s $4.45 billion development at the former Bannister Mall site will create up to 16,000 new jobs within the next 10 years and is the largest economic development project in the history of the state.

The 4.7 million-square-foot campus in Kansas City, Missouri…

Sungevity Selects Kansas City For New Sales And Service Center

Sungevity, Inc., a leading global provider of residential solar services, has selected Kansas City, Missouri, as the location for the company’s new sales and service center. The company’s officials made the announcement today with the Kansas City Area Development Council.
Sungevity expects to create 595 jobs during…

Pittsburgh: Matching Veterans with Energy Jobs

The Allegheny Conference on Community Development recently announced the launch of Service to Opportunity (STO; ServicetoOpportunity.org), a strategic initiative to connect military veterans with energy and manufacturing employers in the Pittsburgh, Penn., region who need to fill in-demand jobs.
The matching database that helps veterans match their skills…

New Website Promotes St. Louis Gateway Initiative

The St. Louis Gateway is a new collaborative initiative to create a new brand identity for the St. Louis region —and for southwestern Illinois within that region — as a multimodal hub poised for growth. At the heart of the effort is the new website, www.stlgateway.com. The collaboration is…

Manufacturing Institute Releases Workforce Ready Guides

In partnership with The White House’s release of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership 2.0 Report: Accelerating U.S. Advanced Manufacturing, The Manufacturing Institute launched on October 27 how-to-guides to build a workforce-ready talent pipeline in communities across the country.
For the past year, The Manufacturing Institute…