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In 2011, O’Neal provided EPC delivery of a $235 million grassroots facility for Mitsubishi Electric Power Products (MEPPI). Leading site selection and incentive negotiation services were two principals from McCallum Sweeney Consulting, Kim Davis and Lindsey Cannon. Their efforts led to a site that met MEPPI’s criteria and netted a reported $34 million in incentives.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept throughout the United States, the entire business landscape has been disrupted. Delaware Prosperity Partnership, however, is continuing its work to attract, grow and retain companies, build a stronger entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem and support private employers in identifying, recruiting and developing talent throughout Delaware. Part of DPP’s work involves engaging with representatives from various sectors of the economic development arena to discuss how the crisis is affecting what they do and what the disruption means to Delaware.

While the top five states are not surprising — as the South continues to dominate in corporate location — it is interesting that the top five states are all adjacent to each other geographically from North Carolina to Alabama

Lindsey Cannon and Sarah White have taken similar career paths to get to where they are now—directors of the year-old site selection services company Quest Site Solutions.

Amble through downtown Greenville and you’d think its 100-plus restaurants, Swamp Rabbit trail along the Reedy River, Fluor Field ballpark and iconic pedestrian bridge had come out of nowhere, like some theme park version of an ideal city.

As technology continues to drive a wave of disruption across the site selection industry and economic headwinds loom on the horizon, it has become more important than ever for corporates to engage economic development organizations (EDOs) that have a firm understanding of the businesses, local governments and communities that they represent.