America’s reindustrialization is producing headline factories, but its long-term competitiveness depends on something less visible: industrial districts.
In “Co-Location Is Everything,” Bull Moose Institute Senior Fellow Daniel Bring argues that dense clusters of manufacturers offer advantages no isolated plant can match. These include shorter supply lines, deep pools of skilled labor, and the rapid exchange of know-how that drives innovation.
Drawing on examples from the Springfield Armory to Shenzhen, and from El Segundo to Texas’s Proto-Town, Bring makes the case for federal policy that treats geographic concentration as a priority in itself.
