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GPEC recognized as top economic development organization...

May 1, 2025

Site Selection Magazine names GPEC a top EDO in 2025 Mac Conway Awards PHOENIX (May 1, 2024) — For the ninth consecutive year, the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC) has been named among the top economic development organizations in the United States by Site Selection Magazine. Since 2016, GPEC has been recognized by the magazine’s […]

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Greater Phoenix Projects and Progress

By Adam Bruns, Site Selection Breaking New Ground Projects and progress stretch across multiple industries and an entire region. Is there a Moore’s Law for good news? The measuring stick for the semiconductor industry posited by Intel’s Gordon Moore projected that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) would double around every two […]

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Infrastructure as a Foundation for Innovation

By Adam Bruns, Site Selection Laying the Foundation for Innovation You know a state commerce department is doing something right when it achieves 1,250% of its goal for capital investment from growing companies. That's what the Arizona Commerce Authority reported on the final day of June 2024, as corporate end users during the 2024 fiscal […]

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Downtown Phoenix Skyline Landscape

International and innovative growth in Greater Phoenix

Originally published in Site Selection Magazine. With a strategic location, supportive infrastructure and business-friendly environment, Greater Phoenix is experiencing remarkable international business momentum and has consistently ranked as a top market for foreign direct investment (FDI) in the U.S. This ascent is supported by a significant increase in advanced manufacturing while the region becomes a […]

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Site Selection's 2024 Mac Conway Award emblem.

GPEC recognized as top economic development organization...

May 1, 2024

Site Selection Magazine names GPEC a top EDO in 2024 Mac Conway Awards PHOENIX (May 1, 2024) — For the eighth consecutive year, the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC) has been named by Site Selection magazine as one of the top economic development organizations (EDO) in the United States. GPEC was one of 20 regional […]

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Greater Phoenix is comprised of 22 communities that all offer unique land and benefits.

Greater Phoenix ranked among most sustainable metros...

July 5, 2023

Greater Phoenix earned the No. 7 sustainability spot in Site Selection Magazine Greater Phoenix leaders have made it a priority to not only build the regional economy, but to improve the environment and make this earth a better place to live. These efforts earned recognition on Wednesday in Site Selection Magazine, which released its 2023 […]

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Mac Conway Award Winner

GPEC named the top economic development organization...

May 1, 2023

Site Selection Magazine announces 2023 Mac Conway Awards For the seventh consecutive year, the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC) has been named one of the top economic development organizations in the United States by Site Selection magazine. GPEC was recognized with the 2023 Mac Conway Award for Excellence in Economic Development, bestowed upon the top […]

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GPEC named top economic development organization for...

Site Selection announces 2021 Mac Conway Awards  For the fifth year in a row, we have received a 2021 Mac Conway Award for Excellence in Economic Development by Site Selection magazine. The Mac Conway Award, named in honor of Site Selection founding publisher, H. McKinley “Mac” Conway, is awarded to the top 20 local and regional U.S. economic development groups of […]

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Autonomous vehicle companies enjoy prime connectivity via Phoenix airport hubs

Poised for flight: Greater Phoenix hosts some of the...

Greater Phoenix, with a swelling army of engineers, is an increasingly favored location for aerospace and defense companies. Boeing’s facility in Mesa, which produces Apache Attack Helicopters, is one of the region’s largest employers with 3,600 workers.

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Why people and companies are moving to Greater Phoenix

by Savannah King If you want to know what a hot market looks like, look no further than Greater Phoenix. By virtually every metric that matters, 2019 was a record-setting year for this region of 4.8 million people. Whether it’s measured in jobs, capital investment, facility projects or people moving to the region, economic progress […]

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