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The Next Wave: What Comes After the 2020s Pharma Manufacturing Wave?

This piece explores how pharma’s next investment cycle may shift toward modernizing, repurposing and optimizing existing manufacturing capacity, creating new opportunities for companies and communities in the 2030s.

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Site Selection Lessons from the New U.S. Pharma Manufacturing Wave

Drawing on BLS’s experience advising major pharmaceutical manufacturers, this piece explores how workforce capacity, site readiness, reliable utilities and public investment shaped location decisions during the U.S. pharma manufacturing boom.

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What Caused the 2020s U.S. Pharma Manufacturing Wave?

Part one of our three part analysis of the life sciences industry examines how scientific innovation, tax reform, industrial policy and federal pricing and trade pressures converged to drive the wave of U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturing investment in the 2020s.

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Winning Foreign Direct Investment in an Uncertain Economy

Tracey Hyatt Bosman and Michelle Comerford discuss which communities are best positioned to attract and sustain long-term business investment amid an uncertain economy.

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The Next Era of Site Selection Will Be Defined by Collaboration

Project Director Michelle Comerford reflects on her term as Chair of the Site Selectors Guild and the role of site selectors today.

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Community Opposition Is Reshaping Data Center Strategy

Tracey Hyatt Bosman, CEcD, CRE®, CSSC, explores how rising public resistance over power, water, land use, and grid impacts has transformed data centers from routine economic development wins into politically sensitive projects where community alignment is now as critical as infrastructure.

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