235: Site Selection Doesn't Start With the Site with Thane Hutcheson

September 7th, 2026  |  28 mins 54 secs

artificial intelligence, business attraction, corporate location strategy, eco devo, econdev, economic development, incentives negotiation, labor markets, manufacturing, site selection, site visits, workforce

Thane Hutcheson explains how companies actually choose locations, what economic developers often misunderstand about site selection, and why better data and AI should create more time for the human work that wins projects.