Features

From Site Selection magazine, May 1999 Other Top Development Organizations: Honorable Mentions from 1998 TTaken from the many nominations received for this year’s Site Selection list of top 10 development groups, here are profiles of other worthy organizations from 1998: Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce, Bowling Green, Ky.: Played a key role in attracting […]

From Site Selection magazine, May 1999 B R E A K T H R O U G H     L O C A T I O N S Breakthrough Deals: New Trend-Setting Corporate Locations b y     T I M     V E N A B L E Auto plants in Detroit. Financial services offices […]

New Battlefields for the ‘Real Estate Revolution’: ‘Expandable Infrastructure,’ ‘Demand-Side Space’ Like the larger business world, the corporate real estate industry is in huge flux. Far-ranging issues like infrastructure integration and workplace metrics are the latest weapons of choice in what many call ‘the real estate revolution.’ b y     J A C K     […]

From Site Selection magazine, March 1999 R E A L     E S T A T E     S E R V I C E S Workplace Design Is a Moving Target b y     M A R K     A R E N D Old ways of thinking about designing work space are clashing […]

Transportation Equipment, Industry Machinery Sectors Tops In “98 b y     M A R K     A R E N D Less robust growth characterized new manufacturing and expansion activity in 1998, according to Conway Data’s New Plant database tallies. Virtually every industrial sector did well, but global economic malaise took its toll. Solid economic […]

From Site Selection magazine, March 1999 A U T O E X E C   Systems and strategies for maximizing corporate real estate assets New versions of corporate real estate software systems are giving users no excuse not to use them — or even like them. Today’s software applications involve little or no learning-curve time […]

Long-Term View Sustains Global Location Activity b y     M A R K     A R E N D European markets saw robust business expansion activity in ’98, but even emerging markets did well as location experts looked beyond their current status. Wherever new-site locators looked in 1998, the story was pretty much the same: […]

 MARCH 1999  SITE SELECTION  GOVERNOR’S CUP   • COVER PAGE   • MOTOWN RULES   • 1998 PROPORTIONAL   PERSPECTIVES   • METHODOLOGY   • NEW CORPORATE  FACILITIES AND  EXPANSIONS   • THE LONG VIEW:  MICHIGAN   • 1999 FORECAST   • 1998 TOP 20 U.S.  FACILITIES by    J A C K  &nbsp L Y N E 1998’s SS Scoreboard demonstrates why […]

M A N A G E M E N T     S T R A T E G Y Tomorrow’s corporate real estate world will scarcely resemble yesterday’s or today’s, the pundits are fond of pointing out. The professionals in the industry know that. The key is getting the rest of the organization to see […]

From Site Selection magazine, March 1999 M A N A G E M E N T     S T R A T E G Y Keeping Sprint’s New HQ Campus on Track Margaret P. Latshaw, Ph.D., is in the midst of what will likely be a high point in her career in corporate real estate. […]