HelloFresh, an international meal kit company with offices in New York City and Germany, chose to relocate and expand its operations to Newark, NJ.  After a nationwide search, the firm decided to lease a 217,000 square foot distribution space and an additional 20,000 square feet of office space in downtown Newark.  The NJ Economic Development Authority estimates the project will yield a net benefit to the state of $4.1 million over 20 years.

BLS & Co. secured an incentives package for Nestlé Waters North America Inc, relocating its North American headquarters from Greenwich to Stamford, CT. The Stamford location meets the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design® (LEED) standards for green buildings.

To help fund the project, BLS & Co. secured an incentives package comprising of low-interest loans, state tax credits and tax exemptions.

BLS & Co. was engaged by AbleTo Inc, a behavioral healthcare provider, to provide an incentives strategy for its planned new facility. The company was rapidly expanding, seeking to create new jobs in its technology and software development division with wages over $100,000 annually.

As part of the incentives package, AbleTo Inc., was approved for Excelsior Jobs Tax Credit incentive program for steadily creating new jobs in the state of New York.

BLS & Co. advised Colgate Palmolive on behalf of a new personal care products manufacturing plant in Greenwood, South Carolina. The initial search geography included the southeastern and mid-Atlantic United States. BLS & Co.'s energy services group performed infrastructure due diligence on the preferred site, identifying several critical issues to be remedied. The incentive package was comprised of various tax credits for job creation, investment, and port usage; a closing fund grant award; sales and use tax exemptions, training assistance, and property reductions.

Subaru, which had outgrown its space in Cherry Hill, NJ, hired BLS & Co. to evaluate locations for a new ground-up headquarters and service engineering center.  After considering sites in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the firm chose to locate adjacent to the Campbell Gateway District in Camden, NJ. 

BLS was pleased to work with MycoWorks, a producer of a biomaterial made from mycelium, on the site selection for their first commercial-scale plant. The finished product is used to make consumer products such as luxury bags, luggage, shoes and other apparel from a sustainable and renewable “leather substitute” material. After a national search for suitable locations to meet operating requirements and other siting criteria, a location was selected and announced in March 2022 in Union, South Carolina. BLS also assisted MycoWorks in the negotiation of a competitive incentives package from both Union County and the South Carolina Department of Commerce.

BLS & Co.  served as incentives advisor during the relocation of the headquarters of CPG International from Skokie, Illinois (part of the Chicago MSA). Complicating the move was the need to move the C-Suite to the new location in advance of the rest of the headquarters staff, necessitating the potential for staged growth, potentially in multiple locations. Other locations considered included downtown Chicago and Cincinnati, OH.

BLS & Co. provided incentives advisory services for SKF USA Inc.’s new Global Technical Center – Americas (GTCA), an engineering research and development center supporting SKF’s North and South American manufacturing operations. Naperville, IL -- a suburb of Chicago – was chosen for the 130,000 square foot build-to-suit facility.

BLS & Co. served as site selection and incentives consultant for Bristol Myers Squibb’s new $2.3B multi-modal manufacturing facility in Houston, Texas. The project continued BLS & Co.'s decades-long relationship with BMS that has also involved substantial office and manufacturing projects in Florida and Massachusetts.

• Texas – Multi-Modal Manufacturing: In 2026, BLS & Co. served as advisor on a comprehensive U.S. site selection process for a major advanced therapeutics manufacturing investment. The process managed a nationwide location evaluation that included site identification, labor market and workforce assessments, utility and infrastructure due diligence, executive site visits, and incentive strategy development across multiple finalist states. BLS coordinated closely with BMS leadership, developers, utility providers, and EDOs to support accelerated decision-making and implementation schedules. The project ultimately announced a capital investment of over $2.3 billion at a new site in Houston, Texas, which is expected to create 489 new jobs.
• Florida - BLS & Co. served as site selection and incentives consultant for Bristol Myers Squibb’s new North American Capability Center (NACC) in Tampa, Florida. BMS’ goal for the NACC was to house key enterprise services, including technology, finance and accounting, alongside research and analytics in a cost-effective market. The NACC project required BLS & Co. to identify and evaluate cost-effective, high-quality markets with diverse pools of talent. BLS & Co. managed a team of brokers, designers and the company’s human resources, technology and functional leaders during an engagement that resulted in the successful site selection, incentive agreement, staffing and opening of the NACC, all within a nine-month window.
• ‍‍‍Massachusetts - Our firm also served as site selection and incentives consultant during a complex and highly competitive nationwide search for a new $750 million, large-scale, multi-product bulk biologics facility in Devens, Massachusetts. The Devens site, the largest capital investment in BMS history at the time, has expanded multiple times since its original announcement and now totals over $1 billion in capital investment to date.