Across the US markets we track, 1,104 companies logged 1,181 geographic expansion events in September 2026. Korea made the largest commitments. On 30 September a US and Korea framework committed up to $120 billion of Korean investment to new nuclear reactors built on Westinghouse Electric technology (GlobeNewswire), and Related Companies set out Project Star, a $22.3 billion energy campus in Encinal, Texas, pairing 6.47 GW of gas power with a 5 GW digital infrastructure campus (PRN).
Office leasing concentrated in New York and Miami. Qube leased 52,000 square feet at the planned 70 Hudson Yards tower (Commercial Observer), DivcoWest's Hudson Square AI hub at 325 Hudson St. reached 100% occupancy (Connect CRE), Estelle Community leased 30,000 square feet in the Flatiron District for its first US club (Commercial Observer), and Raycliff Capital took a floor at Sweetbird North in the Miami Design District (Commercial Observer).
Industrial sites and headquarters moved as well. Galvanize Real Estate acquired a 280,000 square foot industrial portfolio in Orange County, its fifth acquisition nationwide in a year (Connect CRE). Colovore filed a permit for a $430 million data centre in Denton County despite a city moratorium and a state pause on data centre permits (Connect CRE). Saronic broke ground on a shipyard in Brownsville, Texas (Breaking Defense), and Bozzuto is moving 225 employees to 57,837 square feet at Maple Lawn while growing from 5 corporate offices to 10 (Commercial Observer).
Paramount led the count with 4 events. It threatened to move studio operations out of California as leverage in antitrust settlement negotiations (The Wrap). Makan Delrahim, chief legal officer at Paramount, on the antitrust case: “That's just not how antitrust works. So once the facts were out before a judge, it would have never ever held up.”