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. Born Nov. 1, 1920, […]
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 […]
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, […]
