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How Ready Is Your Company to Begin a U.S. Site Selection Project?
The U.S. Site Selection Readiness Assessment helps industrial and manufacturing companies evaluate how clearly the requirements for a specific U.S. site selection project have been defined. It provides a structured snapshot of current project requirements related to facility, infrastructure, workforce, geography, investment, logistics, relocation, and decision-making.
This is a view of the current project, not a judgment of your company's competence, experience, or preparedness. Your team already understands its operation, investment objectives, and strategic priorities. The assessment helps organize how clearly those requirements have been defined for this particular location decision.
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Your Team Knows the Business. See the Bigger Picture.
Experienced internal teams often have established processes for planning a new facility, expansion, or relocation. Relevant project requirements, however, may be distributed across several functions.
Operations may define facility and production needs. Finance may establish investment parameters. Workforce and HR teams may consider talent availability and relocation requirements. Leadership may focus on timing, geography, and broader strategic priorities.
The assessment provides a way to view these requirements together. The goal is not to tell your team what it should know. It is to help evaluate how clearly the requirements for this specific project have been defined.
Before Comparing Locations, Define What the Location Needs to Support.
Meaningful location comparisons begin with clarity about what the operation needs a location to support. Available real estate alone does not establish whether a location can support facility requirements, infrastructure needs, workforce priorities, logistics, investment parameters, or long-term operating objectives.
The assessment offers a structured way to consider how clearly those project requirements have been defined before or while potential locations are being evaluated.
Evaluate Project Readiness Across Eight Key Areas
Company & Project Overview
Project purpose, type, scope, and existing U.S. location considerations.
Project Scope & Timeline
Project timing, investment parameters, key milestones, and schedule expectations.
Facility & Infrastructure
Facility size, utilities, power, water, wastewater, natural gas, transportation, and rail requirements.
Workforce Profile
Initial and future workforce needs, occupations, workforce skills, and labor considerations.
Geographic Preferences
Preferred regions, geographic limitations, exclusions, and primary location drivers.
Housing & Relocation
Executive, employee, and short-term housing and relocation needs.
Development & Professional Resources
Construction, engineering, architecture, environmental, and other project resources.
Decision & Authorization
Stakeholders, decision authority, approval responsibilities, and approval timing.
Get a Structured Snapshot of Project Readiness.
The assessment contains 21 questions across eight areas and uses a 63-point scale to provide a general snapshot of how clearly project requirements have been defined. It is designed to help teams identify where requirements are established and where additional information, discussion, or refinement may be useful.
The assessment does not reproduce a location analysis or make a site selection decision. Instead, it provides a structured view of the current state of project definition.
Get a Snapshot — Not a Grade.
The score provides a general indication of how clearly the project's requirements have been defined. It should remain secondary to the diagnostic value of the assessment and the internal discussion it can support.
0–21 — Early Planning: Several foundational requirements may still need definition.
22–42 — Planning Underway: Important elements are established, while additional requirements may still need refinement.
43–63 — Project Requirements Largely Defined: Many foundational requirements have been established to support a structured site selection process.
Look Beyond the Total Score.
Two companies may receive the same overall score while having different areas of strength, uncertainty, or refinement. Individual responses may be as useful as the total score because they can reveal where a project has clear direction and where additional discussion may be valuable.
The goal is insight, not a grade.
When Can the Assessment Be Useful?
Considering a U.S. Expansion
Evaluate how clearly the requirements for a potential U.S. expansion have been defined.
Defining a New Facility Project
Review project requirements before potential locations are compared.
Evaluating a Relocation
Consider the operational, workforce, geographic, logistics, and decision-making requirements involved.
Aligning a Cross-Functional Team
Use the assessment as a shared starting point for discussing project requirements across functions.
Use the Results to Guide the Next Conversation.
The assessment does not make the site selection decision. It can help identify requirements that are already established, areas that may need more information, questions requiring internal discussion, stakeholder-alignment needs, and requirements that may become location criteria.
Used alongside your team's business knowledge and planning process, the results can provide a practical starting point for the next conversation.
Clarify Location Requirements Before Comparing Locations.
Your team brings knowledge of the operation, investment objectives, and strategy. The assessment helps organize what a location must support by bringing project requirements into a broader view.
Clearly defined requirements may influence operating costs, workforce access, logistics, infrastructure, incentives, project execution, and long-term operational needs. The assessment does not evaluate those location factors itself. It helps clarify the requirements that may guide how they are considered.
Bring Greater Clarity to Your Location Decision.
Your team brings the business expertise. WorldPoint provides an outside, location-focused perspective that complements that expertise. WorldPoint helps industrial and manufacturing companies connect operational requirements with workforce, infrastructure, logistics, incentives, location strategy, and long-term operational needs.
For domestic and international manufacturers evaluating U.S. expansion, relocation, or strategic locations, WorldPoint provides site selection and advisory services that can coordinate economic development, workforce and labor analysis, housing and relocation considerations, vetted vendor introductions, and operational guidance. WorldPoint does not provide brokerage services or perform activities requiring a real estate brokerage license. Brokerage services are handled separately through CBREG True Team.
Planning a U.S. Expansion?
When your project moves from planning into location evaluation, WorldPoint can provide an outside perspective on the factors that matter to your operation.