March 9, 2020 Group Watch: Alabama Earns Top 10 Rankings from Site Selection Mag
Alabama’s economic development successes in 2019 earned the state a pair of Top 10 rankings in Site Selection magazine’s annual Governor’s Cups analysis. Alabama ranked No. 6 among states in projects per capita, a measurement that places smaller states on a more level playing field in the publication’s analysis. The state’s per capita ranking in 2018 was 14. Alabama ranked No. 9 among all states for the number of 2019 economic development projects that met the criteria of the Site Selection analysis, with 150 qualified projects. In 2018, Alabama ranked No. 10.