Eastward H2 Advisory Services
Real estate and advisory services for defense and energy companies. Developing the growth strategy for defense companies, and the energy infrastructure that powers them.
Start a conversation →Eastward H2 Advisory Services helps defense and energy companies identify, secure, and build the facilities they need to grow across the United States and Canada.
Services include site selection, incentive negotiation, real estate representation, development, and consulting for emerging technology companies serving the defense industrial base, while maintaining a focus on hydrogen and energy infrastructure. Based in North Carolina, with proximity to Fort Bragg and the Southeast defense corridor, this is where that growth is landing.
Representing companies that build physical things that matter: defense manufacturers, advanced materials, autonomy and unmanned systems, energetics, microelectronics, and dual-use technology. These companies need the right site, the right workforce, and the right partners to scale.
Energy security is national security. Focusing on hydrogen, hydrogen components, and next-generation energy by identifying partnerships and offtake opportunities, selecting sites, securing incentives, and collocating with installations, ports, and industrial users that need reliable power. It doesn't stop there, either, as the future of hydrogen continues to lean into mobility applications.
From Silicon Valley defense startups to hydrogen companies established in California and Texas, the path of progress is moving east. These companies may form with pilot programs and capital partners in the West, but the East offers low-cost real estate, population growth and labor availability, power and infrastructure, an established defense ecosystem, and eastern ports.
Eastward H2 is wearing a catcher's mitt for manufacturing projects headed east!
Greenfield and brownfield searches, community evaluation, and state and local incentive packages.
Tenant and buyer representation by a North Carolina licensed broker.
Sourcing engineers, architects, contractors, and consultants, and keeping the project on schedule.
Pairing energy generation, users, and infrastructure on shared or adjacent sites.
Supply chain, logistics, and site risk review before capital is committed.
Helping economic developers prepare sites and position their communities for new industry.
Support services Business Development · Project Management · Corporate Advisory · Investor Relations
Recognized expertise in foreign direct investment, site selection, and strategic development.
By Jamie Newell. How the defense industry is shifting toward an ecosystem of established primes and emerging technology companies, and why communities competing for defense manufacturing need speed, ready infrastructure, and alignment more than incentives alone.
Read the article ↗Featured analysis on foreign direct investment trends and tariff impacts on North American site selection.
"We are seeing an uptick in active FDI projects due to the tariffs, and while there are still companies moving forward with adjustments being made to the domestic supply chain and feedstocks, some European companies are pulling out of North America completely."Read the full report ↗
Thought leadership on hydrogen development, site selection strategy, supply chains and feedstocks, and the future of clean energy infrastructure in North America.
Read the article ↗“Hydrogen is the Future!” “Let’s Roll!”
With nearly 20 years of experience across all facets of real estate development, Jamie Newell leads projects through every stage of the development process. She began her career representing engineering firms in the construction industry with project procurement during the due diligence phases prior to joining a boutique site selection firm where she began assisting industrial users with site selection and incentive negotiation consulting services. These services encompass a multitude of problem-solving capabilities such as sourcing investors, siting specific brownfield locations and greenfield sites, identifying federal grant and other incentive opportunities, sourcing contractors, architects, engineers and other consultants, and ultimately closing the deal.
Focusing on strategic growth for her clients, Jamie evaluates supply chain and logistics networks and examines other variables, project drivers, and risk mitigation factors that impact project costs and operational management. Her past clients have included domestic and global companies primarily within the advanced manufacturing, automotive (electric vehicle) and consumer goods sectors.
In her spare time, Jamie enjoys beekeeping, bird hunting with her dog, “Pax,” paddle boarding, and volunteering in her community and with her church. She is also currently supporting a missionary with the Culture Project.
Raised by a distinguished Army Veteran, Jamie proudly supports our nations heroes through her involvement in the All Secure Foundation and Shields and Stripes organizations.
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