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WORLD REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, May 2007 JSW Steel Expanding BASF Expands In Shanghai Intel Plans $2.5 Billion Wafer Fab in China GSK Footprint Grows In Singapore   Google Picks Quality-of-Life Leader by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com  Google is occupying a five-story office building in a Zurich complex formerly occupied by the Hurlimann […]

T he usual suspects are back on the list of the top industries of 2006, based on Conway Data Inc.’s New Plant database of qualifying new and expanded facilities announcements. Computer and electronic product manufacturing replaces plastics and rubber products manufacturing, but the other four are regular staples on the list. (See chart on p. […]

A sk Kudo Tsunoda to explain why EA Sports selected Chicago for a new regional headquarters, and the executive at the global video game giant speaks in frank business terms: “The city is freaking awesome. It has such a vibe and pace to it.”    At Electronic Arts, the world leader in electronic sports games, talk […]

T he Statesville- Mooresville area’s economic developers don’t have to blow their own horn in touting the North Carolina community’s success. The area’s companies do it for them.    Hans deBot, founder and owner of racing components manufacturer DeBotech, says he wouldn’t do business anyplace else. “I’ve been doing business for about eight years in Mooresville. […]

WORLD REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, March 2007 edited by JOHN McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com Location, Infrastructure Boost Dutch Logistics The Betuweroute is a freight- only railway running from the Port of Rotterdam to the German border. The project will officially open in 2007.    U.S. biotech firm Amgen chose Breda, Netherlands, for its European Logistics center […]

NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS From Site Selection magazine, March 2007 The site of Google’s new $600- million server farm in Lenoir will sit across Highway 18- 64 from a row of furniture factories representing the county’s traditional industrial base. Photo by David Rodwell Google Arrival Boosts a North Carolina County by JOHN McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com C ity […]

O hio has reclaimed the Governor’s Cup for new and expanded facilities announced in 2006, ending Texas’ two- year run of winning the ’04 and ’05 cups – when the Buckeye State finished second. Ohio’s winning the 2006 Governor’s Cup is one bookend on the Texas story; the other one is the 2003 Governor’s Cup, […]

recent article from the consultancy Oxford Analytica (www.oxan.com), “Financial Power Shifts Away From U.S.,” makes the case that the U.S. is at risk of losing its preeminence as a financial-services center to markets in Asia and Europe, particularly the United Kingdom. But it’s for different reasons than why the U.S. allegedly lost its manufacturing sector […]

MARCH 2007 Behind the Governor’s Cup (cover) Meet a Member Request Information

D eborah Rochkind recently stepped out of the whirlwind that was AOL TimeWarner’s real estate group after seven years managing AOL’s 5- million- plus square- foot (465,000- sq.- m.) portfolio in 15 countries. Most of her time at the Internet giant was spent working on financial management, mergers and acquisitions, lease negotiations Deborah Rochkind and […]

   Finance Partners Supply the Package Behind the Project P ublic and private development finance agencies and partnering lending institutions play a critical role in the corporate real estate process. In most communities, the economic development marketing, attraction and business retention efforts are led by groups, agencies and other entities that represent both the business and public side […]

sk that baby boomer facing retirement or the Gen X and Y techie: One year or so out from the beginning of the biggest retirement surge in history, the United States could be about to experience a titanic shift that could turn “Any Town USA” into a quality- of- life locale.    Sure, the usual indices […]

TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX From Site Selection magazine, March 2007    Lease System Manages Construction, Too by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com Troy Dowling is a senior systems analyst with American Airlines and is Horizon administrator. A merican Airlines’ real estate portfolio encompasses more than 300 properties around the globe, including 165 in the U.S. This includes […]

CLIENT SERVICE AWARDS From Site Selection magazine, January 2007   MC Industrial begins work on two of 13 slip- formed silos at Holcim’s new cement plant in Missouri. New and Improved A new measure for recognizing exceptional client service takes shape. by MARK AREND mark.arend bounce@conway.com  S ite Selection‘s editorial team took a new approach to selecting […]

COVER STORY: EUROPEAN BIOTECHNOLOGY From Site Selection magazine, January 2007    Biotech Builds In Key European Cities New clusters take shape in the Netherlands and Scotland. Crucell is expanding its complex in the Leiden BioScience Park. by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com D r. Ronald Brus, president and CEO of Crucell, likens Leiden to the […]

y colleagues and I completed our bi-annual survey of readers in November, and this space seems like a good way to share some highlights with you. Every other year, we take the pulse of our readership circulation to make sure we are still addressing the areas of interest and concern to you. We seek such […]

JANUARY 2007 Service Takes Many Forms (cover) Meet a Member Holiday Closing Expected on CBRE Acquisition of Trammell Crow Extending One’s REACH Outsourcing Specialists Outsource Real Estate Request Information

nyone involved in logistics or supply chain management today knows that New York and Los Angeles dominate U.S. port activity. Combined, the two cities processed almost 19 million containers last year – well over 50 percent of the nation’s total. Why is no secret: Both ports enjoy robust port infrastructure and offer direct- access transportation […]

SUPER SITES III From Site Selection magazine, January 2007    Bridesmaids Revisited If you’re trying to marry a large parcel with a large prospect, homework is your dowry. by ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com  The 1,400- acre (567- hectare) Franklin Farms parcel near Holly Ridge in northeastern Louisiana boasts I- 20 access, dual rail and three […]

TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX From Site Selection magazine, January 2007    Software Speeds Lease Analysis by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com I ntuit, the Mountain View, Calif., developer of familiar accounting and tax preparation software such as Quicken and TurboTax, has a real estate portfolio of about 2 million square feet (185,800 sq. m.) spread across about […]

JANUARY 2007 Pirelli’s Romania Plant Targets Top- End Markets (cover) Will Bengalooru Ring True as India’s Tech Hub? Consultancy Takes On ED Efforts in Jordan and Serbia Give Us Your Opinion! WORLD REPORTS Edited by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com Pirelli’s Romania Plant Targets Top- End Markets Pirelli Tire launched manufacturing operations at its Slatina, Romania, […]

T he shipbreaking business can stir up a tsunami of knee- jerk NIMBY- ism. Precious few communities greet proposed ship- disposal operations with open arms.    That’s not altogether surprising, by JACK LYNE jack.lyne bounce@conway.com This is an aerial view of ISL’s shipbreaking operation in Brownsville, the largest in the U.S. given Third World shipbreaking’s abysmal […]

lot of politicians and bureaucrats talk about their desire to make government “run more like a business.” Few actually do it.    One public official who’s having more success than most in bringing free- market by RON STARNER ron.starner bounce@conway.com David Winstead principles and accountability to government is David Winstead. Last month, he marked his first […]

From Site Selection magazine, November 2006 NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS Reverse Osmosis Chinese corporate dollars discover North America. by ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com I n May 2006, Qingdao, China- based appliance company Haier Group announced it had just secured a major order from Coca Cola Canada to make chest- type coolers for selling the Atlanta- based […]