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Oliver Buchannon
Zach Silber

Dec 22, 2025

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12 min read

Glenn Youngkin’s $156 Billion Legacy

In an exclusive interview, the 74th Governor of Virginia gives Standard & Works a masterclass in economic development

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Dec 12, 2025

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14 min read

Why Pennsylvania is Winning America’s AI Race

The nation's political battleground is wielding "tri-partisanship" to land AI investment at historic scale

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Dec 10, 2025

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4 min read

AI Strike Team Goes Statewide, Supercharging Pennsylvania's AI Ambition

The AI Strike Team has launched “Strike Team 2.0” — a statewide expansion with a reconstituted board of business and industrial heavyweights

Nov 21, 2025

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6 min read

Ohio: The Aerospace & Defense Heavyweight

JobsOhio CEO JP Nauseef on building the country’s most formidable defense manufacturing economy

Nov 21, 2025

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2 min read

The Frontier – Utah

1,800 miles west of Wright-Patt, Utah represents a different kind of defense ecosystem.

Nov 21, 2025

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1 min read

The AI Industrial Engine – Pittsburgh

AI Strike Team's Joanna Doven on building SCIF capacity next door to the Army’s largest AI-trained unit

Nov 21, 2025

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2 min read

Places to Watch for Aerospace and Defense

Specific locations play strategic roles in the defense ecosystem.

Nov 21, 2025

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2 min read

What It Takes to Be Defense Ready

Walbridge's Jamie Newell gives us a ground-truth checklist for defense site selection

Nov 21, 2025

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2 min read

The Critical Ingredient – America’s Silicon Chain

The "physical substrate of modern warfare" has made its footprint in the Appalachian Mountains.

Nov 21, 2025

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16 min read

🛡️ The New Defense Map

How procurement shifts, VC, and site selection demands are redrawing America’s defense landscape

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Nov 14, 2025

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13 min read

Utah's Blueprint to Become America’s Aerospace and Defense Leader

Utah’s approach demonstrates a new paradigm in economic development: sector-specific, brand-savvy, and execution-driven.

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Nov 14, 2025

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2 min read

The Utah Difference

Every conversation in Salt Lake returned to one theme: people.

Nov 14, 2025

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4 min read

From Crossroads of the West to Highways in the Sky

Utah is taking its renown logistics prowess to new heights – literally

Nov 14, 2025

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3 min read

“Spaceport in Utah. 2026.”

The state's 50-year-old plan to win the new space race.

Nov 14, 2025

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1 min read

The Sandbox: Regulation as an Accelerator

Utah waives regulations that inhibit responsible innovation and growth.

Nov 14, 2025

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3 min read

Utah Power Is the Product

Utah plans to double its energy generation with Operation Gigawatt

Nov 14, 2025

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3 min read

Working Together

For the Southern Utah Economic Alliance, building a region means starting with structure.

Oct 31, 2025

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11 min read

🧬 Inside Pharma's $475B Manufacturing Boom

Mapping the race to reshore and the states positioned to win

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Oct 31, 2025

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2 min read

🦾 AI and the Future of Pharma Real Estate

Tech advances are changing lab space needs – manufacturing is next

Oct 24, 2025

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8 min read

Mapping America’s Data Center Boomtowns

We spent an hour with JLL's Data Center Whisperer

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Oct 17, 2025

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8 min read

5 Insights from Toby Rice: Modern American Industrialist

EQT CEO Toby Rice is driven by an unrelenting belief that America must build again

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Oct 10, 2025

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3 min read

Looking West: “Pennsylvania is kicking our ass”

New Jersey aims to lower business taxes and shore up its energy infrastructure in order to compete with its neighbor

Oct 10, 2025

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2 min read

Looking East: Cross-Hudson Economic Showdown Looms

New Jersey sees an opportunity to win new business and residents if Zohran Mamdani is elected NYC Mayor

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Oct 10, 2025

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3 min read

How Will New Jersey’s Next Governor Boost State Competitiveness?

The state’s gubernatorial candidates lay out their plan for attracting business investment

Oct 10, 2025

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6 min read

Battleground New Jersey

With three weeks till Election Day, we assess the Garden State's economic competitiveness

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