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APRIL/MAY 1998 The Service Imperative: A New Mind-set for Corporate Real Estate by Michael A. Bell I n May, the International Development Research Council (IDRC) Spring World Congress in Baltimore will focus on the subject of service delivery and why it has emerged as a corporate real estate imperative in a sustained period of unprecedented […]

APRIL/MAY 1998 The Strategic Art of the Deal: SS‘s 1997 Top 10 by Jack Lyne Spanning four continents, 1997?s top 10 deals illustrate billion-dollar investments, multimillion-dollar incentives and savvy facility location strategy. These 10 deals were chosen by Site Selection?s editorial team as 1997?s top facility location deals. Here are capsule looks at those 10 […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? February/March 1998 Real Estate and the Networked Economy: Big Changes in When, Where and How Business Works by Jack Lyne “The future has already arrived; it’s just not evenly distributed yet,” Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future, told a record-setting gathering of more than 2,000 at the […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? February/March 1998 Michigan, Midwest Set Fast-Track Pace in 1997’s Record U.S. Race for Corporate Facilities by Jack Lyne Let the good times roll. That ancient war cry is a particularly appropriate touchstone in analyzing 1997’s U.S. corporate location patterns. Economic good times earmarked rolled expansively through Main Street, Wall Street […]

Highlights from February/March 1998 COVER STORY Michigan, Midwest Set Fast-Track Pace in 1997’s Record U.S. Race for Corporate Facilities 1997’s annual Site Selection scoreboard tallied a record 10,571 U.S. facility and expansion announcements. pg. 24 European Union: How Europe Is Rewriting Its Site Location Rules pg. 22 IDRC’s Service Delivery Best Practices Award: Ford Motor […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? February/March 1998 Machinery, Chemical Sectors Claim Most Facilities in ’97 by Mark Arend If new plant announcements are any indication, 1997 was a banner year indeed. More than 7,100 new or expanding plant projects were reported to Site Selection’s New Plant database in 1997, a 22 percent increase over the […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? February/March 1998 Pharmaceutical/Biotech Siting: The Search for Space, Workers, ‘Community’ and Creative Financing by Steve Usdin Today’s pharmaceutical/biotech site selection decisions are driven by factors both old and new. On one hand, the industry is searching for skilled labor and room to expand, traditional location concerns, but increasingly scarce resources […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? February/March 1998 European Union: How Europe is Rewriting Its Site Location Rules by Mark Arend On January 1, 1999, the euro will emerge as a negotiable currency, replacing several Western European currencies — the exact number of which will be determined in the coming months. “It is very likely that […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? February/March 1998 IDRC’s Service Delivery Best Practices Award: Ford Motor Land Services and Alliance 2000 by Tim Venable In late 1993, Ford Motor Co. Chairman Alex Trotman had a better idea. He announced his intent to globalize the company as the first step in a push to become the world’s […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? December 1997/January 1998 Globalizing: Real Estate Payoffs and Perils by Jack Lyne Globalization: Clearly, it’s transformed 20th century business life. Far less clear, though, is how to optimally globalize business operations, particularly when it comes to real estate. “Globalization has been a long evolutionary process,” says Marvin Manheim of Northwestern […]