Reshoring's supplier rings
Every megafab and battery plant seeds a 40-mile ring of supplier, logistics, and housing demand on farm-priced land.
Semiconductor fabs, battery plants, and EV factories announced since 2022 are now hitting construction and hiring peaks — and each one carries a supplier ecosystem that needs 5–50 acre sites within an hour's drive. The anchor counties priced up fast; the second-ring counties (20–40 miles out, on the right highways) mostly didn't. That ring is where ordinary rural land carries extraordinary industrial optionality.
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