Site Selectors Guild Announces Two 2025 Award Winners

14 Mar 2025

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The Site Selectors Guild, the only association of the world’s foremost professional site selection consultants, announced the winners of its two award categories for exemplary economic development initiatives. The awards program, now in its fifth year, recognized the winners during the Guild’s Annual Conference, the world’s largest gathering of professional site selection consultants, in Orlando, FL, USA, from March 12-14.

The two 2025 award winners are:

Projects with a Purpose: Baldwin County Economic Development Alliance | Baldwin County, AL, USA
Community Innovation – Building a Better Business Climate: Oakland County Economic Development | Oakland County, MI, USA

Read the full article from the Site Selectors Guild here.

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