October 2009
Development in Shawnee Moving Ahead
by NBC Action News

September 2009
Kansas ranks #15 in "Best States for Business"
The ranking measures six vital categories for businesses: costs, labor supply, regulatory environment, current economic climate, growth prospects and quality of life.

by Kurt Badenhausen, Forbes

September 2009
Salivating over Cerner
by Jessica Marshall, Sun Publications

September 2009
Kansas passes new business-friendly legislation
Kansas lawmakers have again enacted new economic development legislation to help reduce a company's bottom-line cost of doing business in the state.

September 2009
Kansas City ranks No. 9 in best cities to earn a living

Forbes looked at salary, cost of living, strength of industry, and economists’ predictions for the future state of employment in the 40 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs)--geographic entities defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget for use in collecting statistics.
by Francesca Levy, Forbes

September 2009
Shawnee Economic Development Council Launches New Website

July 2009
Kansas up to #9 in nation in Biotech Strength
Business Facilities applied more than 20 key criteria to rank overall biotechnology strength in Top 10 list.

by Kansas Bioscience Authorities

July 2009
Business-Appreciation Luncheon Awards Shawnee Businesses, Developments

July 2009
Kansas ranks No. 7 in CNBC's annual Top States for Business Report
The CNBC report analyzes all 50 states by examining 40 different measures of competitiveness, which are then grouped into 10 broad categories: cost of doing business, workforce, quality of life, economy, transportation, technology and innovation, education, business friendliness, access to capital and cost of living.
The complete Top 10 ranking is available at http://www.cnbc.com/id/31392646.

June 2009
Shawnee eyes TIF for multi-use project near I-435
Shawnee officials are considering a tax incentive for a sizable multi-use project west of Interstate 435.
by Loren Stanton, Sun Publications

June 2009
Kansas City ranks #9 in best cities to get ahead
Forbes looked at the country's 40 largest metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) and gauged the quality of their business environments by how many of the Forbes 400 best big companies and 200 best small companies were headquartered in each.
by Lauren Sherman, Forbes

June 2009
Kansas named a Top 10 Pro-Business State by Pollina Corporate Real Estate for second consecutive year
The annual Pollina report - authored by Pollina Corporate Real Estate, one of the nation’s premier corporate relocation firms - analyzes all 50 states by examining 33 site location factors controlled by state governments, including taxation, human resources, economic incentive programs, economic development efforts and infrastructure.
by Brent Pollina, Pollina Corporate Real Estate

February 2009
Bio-Microbics, Inc. in Shawnee, Kansas Wins Exporter of the Year Award
by Paul Adams, Commercial News USA

February 2009
Shawnee named one of the best affordable suburbs in the U.S.
For the second year in a row, BusinessWeek has included Shawnee as one of the best. BusinessWeek used data from Manhattan-based OnBoard Informatics to select one suburb within 25 miles of the most populated city in each state.
by Prashant Gopal, BusinessWeek