By Ed Bolen, President and CEO, National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) The COVID-19 pandemic has touched every aspect our lives, drastically altering our once-common routines and resulting in seemingly innumerable and inescapable societal changes. The ongoing crisis continues to profoundly…
Does Your Community Have the Foundation to Move this Industry Sector Forward?
By Don Moss, CCIM, SIOR – Senior Director, Colliers International | Charlotte Similar to the “Cotton Still the Fabric of Our Lives” which is now over thirty years old, the fabricated metal industry could be the ‘Underpinning of Our Lives’.…
Managing Risk with a Foreign Trade Zone Strategy
By Carrie Zethmayr, President & Partner, Zethmayr Since 2016, the global trade environment has continued to change at lightning speed. Global companies are localizing supply-chains due to protectionist trade policies and the restructuring has been expedited and cemented by the…
Back Office Site Selection Trends
By John H. (“Jack”) Boyd, The Boyd Company, Inc., Location Consultant What is a Back Office? Back office is a handy term for the longer, more descriptive name of “central administrative office,” that is to say, a free-standing office away…
Day Trippin’: Tourism Sector Driving to Comeback
By Mark R. Smith, Contributing Writer Andy Levine uses a line that you may have heard to illustrate today’s landscape in the tourism industry. “The industry has been decimated by COVID-19,” said Levine, chairman of Development Counsellors International (DCI), in…
High Tech Winds of Change
By Don Holbrook, Site Location & Economic Incentives Consultant Life in the post Coronavirus global pandemic environment, have nearly overnight changed everyone’s life in some very dramatic ways. Our new way of life has also dramatically changed the way we…