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It?s enough to make your accountant cry — now it?s the landlords who?re smiling. Particularly in the USA, long gone are the days of the late ?80s and early ?90s, when many markets were awash in surplus office and other space, and landlords were practically begging corporate tenants to sign on the dotted line. In […]

Site Selection presents the Best Practices Award winners selected by the International Development Research Council Pssssst! Wanna fix some problems in your company?s real estate program? Once upon a time, you might have told someone from finance or operations to come up with a plan, or hired an outside consultant, and then imposed a solution […]

Ask economists, technology pundits and futurists to name a short list of industrial superstars for the coming years. Site Selection did, and it seems chips invariably float to the top of the pool. Computers, with a projected annual growth rate of 7.3 percent, dominate the highest-growth sectors for the near term. In fact, computer manufacturing […]

Dreaming of areas where consumer buying power is on the rise? Where markets aren?t saturated? Where people are eager to buy your company?s products and services? Then turn your eyes to the developing economies of Asia: China, India, the Philippines and others. Those countries, plus South American stars like Brazil, Argentina and Chile are where […]

Strategic planning-fueled growth will be a big part of real estate?s new year, judging from a recent Site Selection survey of top corporate real estate professionals. A whopping 87 percent of SS survey respondents? firms, for example, plan to ?locate new facilities or expand existing ones during 1997.? Strategic planning?s expandability is fast supplanting downsizing?s […]

Surging free trade is rapidly changing the business fortunes of much of South America. Four nations — Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay — are aligned in the Mercosur customs union. And on Oct. 1, the Mercosur quartet added important ?associate member? Chile, Latin America?s most advanced economy. Bolivia will also likely soon join Mercosur, with […]

by Peter Miscovich President, Interior Space International High-technology. Flexible work scheduling. Corporate downsizing. Teaming. Office hoteling. Reduced occupancy costs. Enhanced productivity. Work force diversification. The “learning organization.” New corporate concerns, objectives, technologies and philosophies have transformed today’s workplace. Companies planning to lease office space must recognize that buildings of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s no […]

More and more states are getting the message: Create a positive business climate — or else. Else what? Well, else be prepared to watch helplessly while neighboring states win the battle for new corporate facility investments and the jobs and economic growth that accompany them. That?s what. Site Selection?s 31st annual ?50 Legislative Climates? survey […]

China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: Politics has perhaps never made for bedfellows so odd and uncomfortable. But ?the three Chinas? are inextricably linked. The next year will sharply shape their business location prospects, with the outcome of inordinate interest to expansion-minded firms. In a few decades, China?s economy will likely be the world?s largest, spurring […]