Business Facilities - December 2007 - (Page 22) FEATURE STORY By Michelle Janowitz Our newest competition singles out the state with the most economically significant relocation and expansion projects of the year. T his year marks the beginning of a new award recognizing the hard work of economic developers—the Business Facilities State of the Year award. We began by asking all 50 U.S. states to tell us about their five largest projects (for the most recent 12-month period for which they had data) both by number of jobs created and dollars of capital investment. Twenty-six states accepted our invitation. When all was said and done, Texas took the spot as this year’s big winner, with a total of $15.4 billion worth of investment and 9,335 jobs to be created by the projects it submitted. The Lone Enterprise Fund grant was the key factor in Rackspace’s decision to keep its company headquarters in San Antonio and build out a new campus within Windsor Park Mall. —Graham Weston, Executive Chairman, Rackspace Managed Hosting “ The Governor’s Texas ” Star State certainly earned its designation as the 2007 Business Facilities State of the Year—as no other state came close to those numbers. Here’s how we picked our winner: First, we looked at how many jobs each state created among the five projects with the greatest projected job creation totals. The state with the lowest total was assigned a baseline score of zero, and the state with the highest total was assigned a baseline score of 100. Every other state received a score between zero and 100, proportional to where its total fell between the high and low scores. We did the same for the five projects with the highest capi- The Motiva refinery in Port Arthur, TX is undergoing a 325,000 barrel-per-day expansion that will make it the largest refinery in the United States. 22 DECEMBER 2007 IMAGE PROVIDED BY NRG ENERGY
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