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May 1, 2000

Is Paris Burning? French Office Market Afire

The good news: Many new French facilities offer top-drawer technology. The bad news: They’re hot, supply is short and rents are rising. With French economy’s broad-based upturn, the rush of occupiers hungry for modern space is turning into a stampede. But with a supply drought, the sudden demand upsurge is bringing Paris region prices to […]

May 1, 2000

Breakthrough Facilities: Exploiting New Location Opportunities

Identify an opportunity, then seize it. Although an obvious oversimplification, that’s the formula for business success. With real estate and facilities playing a critical role in writing corporate success stories, it’s essential that site seekers keep a close eye on where new business-location opportunities are cropping up around the world. And they’re turning up in […]

May 1, 2000

Help for Site Seekers: New Development Programs, Services

Let’s face it. It’s often tough to pick the best new-facility location from today’s dizzying array of options. To do it right, you need all the help you can get. According to a recent Site Selection survey of more than 3,000 economic development organizations around the globe, that help is on the way. From enhanced […]

May 1, 2000

Inside Dell’s Clicks

“We have a mantra in Dell corporate real estate: Set unrealistic expectations . . . and then exceed them,” says Kip Thompson, flashing a smile that’s both playfully devilish and dead serious. Yeah, right, you say? After all, real estate by nature is a long-term process: 24 months to build a facility, 16-18 months if […]

May 1, 2000

Fast Forward: A Look at the Real Estate Manager of the Future

Imagine having the technological resources to run highly effective corporate real estate-related meetings around the country-or world-in a single day without leaving your office. Sound far-fetched? Here is a glimpse into the corporate real estate profession 10 years from now. We all know that the Internet is changing the way business is conducted in almost […]

May 1, 2000

Locating in Canada: There’s a Lot to Like

You’d expect the president of the Economic Developers Association of Canada (EDAC) to be an unabashed supporter of business investment into America’s neighbor and No. 1 trading partner — and an articulate voice explaining the country’s many location advantages. And David Amos is. Amos, who is also director of economic development for the city of […]

May 1, 2000

The UnitedHealth Alliance: Leadership Writ Large

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there,” humorist Will Rogers once observed. That says a lot about leadership, an eternally discussed but skimpily understood business success factor. When it comes to real estate leadership, though, a case study is at hand: the alliance between UnitedHealth Group […]

May 1, 2000

New Research Puts IDRC’s Past, Current and Future Value in Perspective

A new research report, IDRC’s Defining Characteristics, charts the leading real estate association’s evolution from site selection resource to business strategy group, and beyond. Organizations that resist change or cannot change will soon find themselves on the endangered species list in the business world. The forces of technology, entrepreneurship and globalization are too powerful to […]

March 1, 2000

Keith Busse’s Steel Dynamics Casts Its Steelmaking Future in Indiana

Keith Busse’s Steel Dynamics Casts Its Steelmaking Future in Indiana b y     T R A C Y     H E A T H Recovering, competitive, vibrant — these probably aren’t the first words to come to mind when you think of the North American steel industry, but that’s exactly what it has become, says […]

March 1, 2000

Buyer Beware: Expect Urges Tactical, Not Pervasive, Systems Integration

Buyer Beware: Expert Urges Tactical, Not Pervasive, Systems Integration b y     M A R K     A R E N D This report begins a short series on how real estate managers can implement integrated systems without purchasing and installing too much technology. Knowing the difference is a valuable asset. The recent date change […]

March 1, 2000

Payoffs Spur Cisco, Lucent to Expand European Workplace Innovations

Cisco and Lucent’s workplace innovations have cut their European real estate costs and increased optional flexibility. But understanding cultural nuances is a major factor in making it work. Editor’s note: Communications age workplace innovations are rapidly advancing in Europe, propelled by deregulation, exploding Internet usage and the new single currency. Two leaders in European workplace […]

March 1, 2000

New Frontiers for Facility Planners

 MARCH 2000  SITE SELECTION  NEW FRONTIERS FOR FACILITY PLANNERS • Cover Page •  Industrial Super     Projects •  Air Transport    Rails    Highways    Water Transport •  Intermodal Systems    Fresh Water Projects    Power Generation     Projects •  Hydro Power    Oil & Gas Projects    Alternate Energy     Sources •  Developing a Global     Power Grid    Environmental     Projects    Global Comm. •  Global Venues    Urban Development    High-Rise Projects    New Urban Forms •  Rapid Transit Systems    New Towns,    Redevelopment,    Mixed-Used Projects    Project Data Base […]

March 1, 2000

Whirlpool: RE Takes ‘Integrator’ Role

Whirlpool:RE Takes ‘Integrator’ Role b y     J A C K     L Y N E Consistent, quantifiable processes and savvy outsourcing are two of the keys in the dawning rise of Whirlpool’s Corporate Real Estate (CRE) unit into the role of “corporate integrator” — a value-adding effort that bagged a prestigious 1999 Best Practices […]

March 1, 2000

Q&I: PeopleSoft’s John Igoe

PeopleSoft’s John Igoe Keeps People in The High-tech Real Estate Management Equation John F. Igoe knows a thing or two about managing real estate assets in the high-tech arena. As vice president, facilities and real estate, at Pleasanton, Calif.-based PeopleSoft Corp. (www.peoplesoft.com), he manages a portfolio of 1.8 million sq. ft. (167,000 sq. m.) in […]

March 1, 2000

Industry Alliance Hammers Out a New Portfolio Management Model

A team of corporate real estate executives, leading academics and service providers met regularly through late 1998 and much of 1999 to craft a new portfolio management model that recognizes corporate real estate as a strategic organizational asset. What exactly is portfolio management in the corporate real estate context? Unless the concept is given some […]

March 1, 2000

Maximizing Corporate Real Estate’s Contribution to Merger and Acquisition Success

The role of business combinations, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances in restructuring industries and companies was a — if not the – business trend story of the 1990s. Since 1990, the worldwide value of merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions has increased over six times to US$3.4 trillion in 1999, according to Securities […]

March 1, 2000

1999 Governor’s Cup

Separated by a statistical nose, Michigan nipped California, as 1999’s record-breaking business expansion clip again demonstrated who went where for maximum site selection value. Ali vs. Frazier. Affirmed vs. Alydar. Borg vs. Conners. Those kinds of classic confrontations sprang to mind as 1999’s feverish Site Selection Governor’s Cup race wound down. Just like last year, […]

March 1, 2000

1999 Promotional Prospectives

1999 Proportional PerspectivesMichigan, Kentucky Bag No. 1s, but Shakeups Reshuffle Top 10s Albert Einstein, Time‘s “Man of the Century,” knew a thing or two about proportional perspectives. “When you are courting a nice girl,” he observed, “an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. […]

March 1, 2000

Y2OK: SSI Projects Bullish 20 Percent Expansion

Y2OK: SSI Projects Bullish 20 Percent Expansion b y     J A C K     L Y N E We have survived Y2K, the millennial-turning Chicken Little equivalent of Comet Kahoutek’s similarly fizzling hysteria in the 1970s. So, since there’s going to be a future, what does it hold in 2000 for corporate expansion? 2000 […]

March 1, 2000

Top 20 U.S. Facilities, 1999

1999’s U.S. Location Leviathans b y     J A C K     L Y N E The very big U.S. business expansion equaled very big facilities: That’s the nutshell tale of the 20 largest corporate facility deals announced in the United States in 1999, as the nation edged toward its longest sustained economic expansion. 1999’s […]

March 1, 2000

Motown Rebound Reaps a ‘Threepeat’

“Last one out, turn off the lights.” A few years ago, that was the rueful joke in Detroit. Even personable Mayor Dennis Archer joshed at a mid-1990s’ blue-ribbon gathering of corporate real estate executives, “I’ve got a lot of empty lots and boarded-over storefronts that I can really get you a good price on.” But […]

March 1, 2000

Europe

Europe-Middle East Region Claims Most New Activity by Three Key Measures b y     M A R K     A R E N D New facilities sited in 1999 required larger investments, employed more people and were larger in size on average than the previous year, reveal Site Selection‘s New Plant database tallies. Talk of […]

March 1, 2000

1999 Canadian Facilities

1999: A Very Good Year for Business Expansion in Canada b y     T I M     V E N A B L E Did you know that Ontario’s Niagara region is a leading producer of fine wines? It is. And while we at Site Selection don’t know whether 1999 was a particularly good year […]

March 1, 2000

OnSite

SiteNet www.sitenet.com The Internet’s premier source of corporate real estate and economic development information ? The executive’s portal to the latest commercial real estate news and stock market indices. ? Gateway to the GeoFacts Library and all other web sites managed by Conway Data, Inc. ? Delivers over 7,250 pages to industry professionals every business […]