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D ETROIT — It wasn’t that long ago that pundits and pols alike were lamenting the demise of the Motor City and the state to which it belongs.         There is little such talk now. Winning Site Selection magazine’s coveted Governor’s Cup for a record fourth year in a row (see the […]

I n the new global supply chain — reduced by globalizaton and falling trade barriers — the crunch to shrink costs is driving world-class industries to position production facilities strategically closer to raw materials sources.         Low-cost development zones are emerging to accelerate the reverse migration and few industrial sectors have been […]

A bstracts of major presentations of the International Development Research Council (IDRC), the world’s preeminent corporate real estate association. “Digital Darwinism: Strategies for Evolving, Adapting, Surviving and Thriving in an e-Business World,” Florida World Congress, Nov. 6, 2000:         The companies that evolve the quickest and adapt to the new e-business landscape […]

W hen Lee Arnold talks about the impact of the Internet on corporate real estate executives, he uses phrases like “fast-moving flexibility,” “blurring of the lines,” “bandwidth access” and “the barrier of inertia.” With Arnold, information technology chairman for global service provider Colliers International (www.colliers.com), the concepts of speed and transition aren’t just fodder for […]

O ne of the challenges businesses face in the New Economy is adapting to changing times without losing their core values – those character qualities that define who they are. The task is no less real for Site Selection magazine as we enter our 48th year of publishing.         Launched by McKinley […]

Abstracts of major presentations of the International Development Research Council (IDRC), the world’s preeminent corporate real estate association. “Impact on the Workplace and Location: CREM Implications of the Wire-Free Economy,” Copenhagen-Malmo World Congress, Sept. 12, 2000: There’s another major technology race shaping up, much like the race for outer space in the second half of […]

W hen people think of Florida, most probably envision sandy white beaches, family-oriented theme parks and lots of retirement communities. When business people think of Florida, the hot spots of Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Tampa-St. Petersburg, Orlando and Jacksonville readily come to mind.       But what about Northwest Florida — or the region locals like […]

I t’s no secret that two of the hottest corporate real estate markets in America are Chicago and Boston. What you may not know is why. After nearly a decade of record US economic expansion, why do these two diverse and yet similar metropolitan markets continue to top the charts for corporate users of industrial […]

O RLANDO, Fla. — Corporate real estate executives have a choice: Change in the face of the e-business revolution or risk being made extinct by it.       In a nutshell, that was the overriding theme of the 76th North American IDRC World Congress, held Nov. 4-8 in the tourism capital of the world: […]

W aves of “creative destruction” will see large numbers of managerial, professional and technical personnel put out to pasture because the technology is so good. These were only some of the conclusions to come out of the Copenhagen World Congress of the Industrial Development Research Council (IDRC), the pre-eminent corporate real estate (CRE) association, on […]