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Site Selection

What Site Selectors See First — and Why It Usually Isn't Your Data Room

Before a consultant ever opens your incentive package, they have already formed an opinion from your website, your photos, and whether your community looks like a place their client would move a family to.

Incentives

Incentives Are a Tiebreaker, Not a Strategy

Abatements and grants close deals that other factors already opened. Communities that lead with money often lose to communities that lead with readiness.

Community Spotlight

The Quiet Comeback of the Texas Small-Town Square

Across the state, courthouse squares that were half-empty a decade ago are filling back in. What is driving it, and why it matters to the industrial recruiter across town.