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E ast side, west side, biotech research parks are going up all around the town in Baltimore. Two major bio parks are in the works that figure to enhance Maryland’s already strong presence in the field. Maryland’s biotech industry has been ranked as the third most concentrated among U.S. states and includes more than 300 […]

t’s a case of the chickens coming home to roost.         A trade war over frozen chickens between the U.S. and Western Europe in the early 1960s prompted the blustery Lyndon B. Johnson to establish a 25-percent global tariff on imported pickup trucks. That tariff still exists, and one of the only […]

he founding management team at Cytovance Biologics had a good idea of what they were getting when they decided to put the fledgling biotech firm’s first manufacturing facility in Oklahoma City. All five are alums of Novozyme Pharmaceuticals, a homegrown OKC firm which gained attention for its enzyme replacement therapies at the turn of the […]

he old distribution warehouse isn’t what it used to be. Logistics operations face added pressure to modernize and upgrade their facilities, says Franco M. Eleuteri, lead specialist and senior vice president of AECOM Facilities.         If North American-based corporate asset managers do not upgrade their logistics operations now, says Eleuteri, they will […]

he frequent mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, and, at times, even expansions, that run rampant through American businesses today, often necessitate bringing in professionals to ensure that relocations run smoothly.         “Clients are looking to their brokers to perform more of a consultant role and to not just be transaction oriented,” notes Paul Hoge, […]

by MARK AREND O n the occasion of my turning 40 in November, a slightly older, out-of-state friend sent me an e-mail, saying, “Welcome to the prime of your life – it’s better over here.” As Site Selection turns 50, my colleagues and I are busy making sure the next 50 years of publishing this […]

from Site Selection’s 50th Anniversary issue: January 2004 NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS Scripps Building in Florida, But Will Cluster Come? The Business Development Board of Palm Beach County spent over a year and some $57.6 million to get this site ready for Scripps. by JACK LYNE Scripps will build it in Florida. But will they come, […]

  Dear IAMC members and prospective members: Fifty years ago, McKinley “Mac” Conway founded what would become Site Selection, the premier publication in its field, then and now. Not long thereafter, he and a few pals founded an organization of industrial developers interested in furthering the fields of economic development and corporate real estate through […]

D ennis Cuneo may be one of the most sought-after site seekers in the world. But enter “Cuneo” in a search engine, and you’re likely to read a lot about a province in northern Italy or an Arizona feng shui master before you find any trace of the Senior Vice President of Toyota Motor Manufacturing […]

omeone once wrote that “history is biography.” That is, the story of our past can be told in the stories of the lives of great people.         When the history of 20th-century corporate real estate and economic development is written and capped, one name will stand out for his legacy: McKinley Conway. […]

L ike members of the Polar Bear Club – those people who meet annually at a lake in January to jump into frigid water – an intrepid set of service providers has recently been through Site Selection’s annual client-service awards challenge. Now in their fifth year, the Site Selection/William Dorsey Service Provider Awards recognize those […]

T hey travel under cover of the night, their missions concealed under code names like Rosewood, Valentine, Heaven, Beach and Diamond. Their quest? A mega-site to call home for a mega -project, one that could bestow economic laurels on its suitors and their citizens for generations to come.         First, though, these […]

D epending on who’s talking, corporations are either hiding profits in tax shelters while states give away the farm with incentives, or, corporations are paying the lion’s share of state taxes and continue to prop up struggling state economies. Either way, each of the 50 states are taking aggressive measures to get themselves through an […]

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A s companies focus on their core competencies to remain in the black, there is greater incentive to turn to commercial real estate service providers to handle the real estate and facilities management functions.         Companies outsource projects to reduce costs while simultaneously gaining special niche skills and services such as lease […]

W Potlatch Corp.’s new distribution center at CenterPoint Intermodal Center on the former Joliet (Ill.) Arsenal property will soon be joined by the company’s tissue converting plant next door. hen Potlatch Corp., a Spokane, Wash.-based manufacturer of wood and paper products, began looking for a site for a new distribution center to serve its expanded […]

O rdering a computer, making an airline reservation or inquiring about a credit card bill increasingly involves talking with someone 12 time zones away.         Outsourcing of customer service functions by U.S. companies to the Asian subcontinent and to the Philippines is transforming the call center industry as firms move jobs from […]

From Site Selection magazine, November 2003 SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Top Business Park Locations Infrastructure, transportation access make industrial parks prime sites for expanding companies. Hal Johnson knows a thing or two about business park development. As the chief economic developer for Orangeburg, S.C., Johnson has literally put his community on the map by making corporate […]

T he opening of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Food Processing Technology Research Facility in 2004 may well trigger a boost in high-tech investment in the metro Atlanta area. Obvious beneficiaries of the US$9.4 million center are commercial food processors that adopt systems developed by the Food Processing Technology Division of the Georgia Tech Research […]

F orward-thinking companies in the IT, software and telecommunications sectors know that clustering – locating in (or being closely connected to) geographic hotbeds of innovation with concentrations of other similar and related companies, skilled knowledge workers, universities and technology centers and advanced physical infrastructure – is a key way to gain competitive advantage. The regions […]

by MARK AREND A ge is a state of mind, say those who take in stride turning, say, 40, 50 or 60. Trying to dodge the inevitable is futile.         In the publishing business, we look forward to such milestones, and the bigger the birthday, the better. Longevity, especially in larger measures, […]

From Site Selection magazine, November 2003 NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS Milwaukee’s Waves of Change This summer, hundreds of thousands of Harley Davidson motorcycles roared into their birthplace to celebrate the Milwaukee company’s 100th anniversary. But Milwaukee is spending a lot less time looking back these days.         To be sure, manufacturing’s presence in […]

Faurecia, one of the world’s largest automobile parts manufacturers, recently opened its sixth plant in Poland. It will employ 350 by the end of 2003, eventually doubling that number. European Automotive Projects Move Into the East “More and more, volume car manufacturing is a cost-driven business, and manufacturing investment projects continue to migrate to the […]