Groundbreak

Groundbreak exists to close the intelligence gap that costs tier-3 American cities manufacturing deals they are structurally positioned to win. The reshoring wave is delivering hundreds of thousands of industrial jobs back to domestic soil, but the analysis helping cities compete for that investment has been written for tier-1 metros, site selection consultants, and corporate real estate teams. Groundbreak is built for the practitioners at the other end: economic development directors in mid-sized cities who have the land, the workforce, and the infrastructure, but not the market intelligence to know which industries are looking for exactly what they have. The publication is a subscription intelligence product. Success is not measured one reader at a time — it is measured in aggregate deal flow: a national readership of ED teams, each using the publication to build a sharper sector target list, collectively closing a disproportionate share of the manufacturing deals that tier-3 markets can win.