Industrial parks bring manufacturing back to Mexico: foreign-operated companies not only return,...

Mexico's industrial parks are mastering the art of the rebound. The parks and their developers didn't wait for the ball to come to them when, earlier in the decade, foreign-operated plants left Mexico in droves for the shores of Asia and, most notably, China.

The exodus coincided with a downturn in the U.S. economy and the resulting North American manufacturing slump, making matters worse in Mexico.

Mexico's industrial parks instead lunged ahead to grab the rebound. The exodus not only stopped, but foreign-operated manufacturing plants have returned to Mexic