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The new manufacturing write-off: why who owns your building now matters

The 2025 federal tax law created a first-year deduction for qualifying new production buildings, generally for projects that begin construction before 2029. Who owns the building affects whether it applies. The report compares an operator-owned building, one held in an owner-controlled real estate company, and a lease from an outside developer, with a worked example. It changes the own-versus-lease comparison without settling it, and it is not a substitute for your tax adviser.

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Builds on: Buy, build, or lease? The 15-year cost of occupying your next facility · A $7 million expansion: four ways to pay for it

Power readiness in Alabama and Georgia

Utilities across both states are planning for large load growth. The report maps what can be established from public filings and utility programs about where industrial power is available, and what still requires direct utility diligence on a specific parcel and load.

Builds on: The utility says power is two years out. What now? · Can this site carry your plant? Water, wastewater, roads and zoning

Where should a food plant go?

Food and beverage plants are decided by water, wastewater, and power long before land price matters. The report covers the utility, permitting, labor, and logistics requirements that narrow the shortlist, and how to compare the communities competing for the project.

Builds on: The utility says power is two years out. What now? · Can this site carry your plant? Water, wastewater, roads and zoning · Before you buy 30 acres for your next plant

What does Auburn–Opelika need built next?

Where growth supports new space, which uses are already well supplied, which infrastructure matters most, and where we see the strongest opportunities for owners of businesses and land.

Builds on: My plant is full. Expand, automate, add a shift, or move? · Nothing on the market fits. Build-to-suit, retrofit, or wait? · Someone wants to buy your land. How do you know what it's really worth?

Your biggest customer is building a plant 150 miles away. Do you follow?

Following a major customer can secure the relationship or tie the business to one buyer's plans. The report weighs freight, service levels, inventory, labor, contract terms, and customer concentration, and what the move does to the rest of the business.

Builds on: My plant is full. Expand, automate, add a shift, or move? · You need 75 more workers. Where will they come from? · What moving a plant actually disrupts

What is an Alabama incentive package actually worth?

An incentive offer is worth its net value after conditions, timing, and costs, not its headline. The report walks through a hypothetical project: tax abatements, training support, and infrastructure help, the obligations attached, and recent changes such as a new state tax on construction materials for abated projects.

Builds on: A $7 million expansion: four ways to pay for it · Can this site carry your plant? Water, wastewater, roads and zoning