Loews Ventana Canyon Resort

For the Spring 2004 Professional Forum, IAMC members will converge at the same place where the Sonoran Desert, Catalina Mountains and Santa Cruz River do the same.
        The Spring '04 Forum will take place March 14-17 in Tucson, Arizona, at one of the top 25 resorts in North America, Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in the Catalina Mountains. The theme? "Kick It Up a Notch: Blending Best of Class Business Practices to Maximize Shareholder Wealth."
        Certainly Loews knows the meaning of "best of class." The resort's high rankings by many professional and travel publications are boosted by healthy amenities like two Tom Fazio-designed golf courses, two swimming pools, eight lighted tennis courts, spa treatments ... even margaritas on the rocks. The equally award-winning Ventana Room, offering contemporary American fare, is routinely ranked the best in Arizona by the Zagat Survey Restaurant Guide, and Wine Spectator has called its wine list among the best in America.

Pima Air and Space Museum will entertain IAMC guests with big band melodies and a dinner beneath the outstretched wings of the B-29 aircraft Sentimental Journey.

        The culminating social event of the week will be a dinner at the Pima Air and Space Museum, where guests will be entertained by 1940s-era big band music as they dine beneath the outstretched wings of the B-29 aircraft Sentimental Journey.
        The Tucson area now claims about 60 biotech companies, led by lab automation and drug discovery instrument firm Ventana Medical Systems, which located there in 1989 and now employs 300 of its 500 worldwide employees in the city. The area saw the groundbreaking for the Institute for Biomedical Science and Biotechnology on the campus of the University of Arizona in the fall of 2003.
        Other nearby attractions include the famous AMARC aircraft "boneyard," the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Saguaro National Park, the Center for Creative Photography, Mission San Xavier Del Bac, and Tucson Botanical Gardens.

Economist Dr. Robert Genetski will be the featured luncheon speaker on Monday, March 15, 2004, at the IAMC Spring Forum in Tucson. Dr. Genetski will address "The Coming Economic Boom – Implications for the Economy and Financial Markets." The Chicago-based Genetski has conducted pioneering research into the role of taxes and their impact on prosperity. His Tucson presentation will look at the implications of our current monetary policy, recent tax cuts and the new Medicare legislation for the economy, interest rates, stock prices and manufacturing.

When nearly every industrial company has some sort of operation in America's Distribution Capital, it only makes sense for industrial asset managers to convene there too. So the IAMC Fall 2004 Forum will take place in Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 26­29, at the luxurious Peabody Hotel.

The elegant Peabody Hotel knows how to treat the wildlife.

        Known for its daily duck parades in the lobby and years of regalia on the rooftop, the Peabody is in the heart of downtown and the heart of Memphis history. As for the metro itself, it's at the heart of many IAMC member operations – companies from Pfizer to Waste Management, Honeywell to Coors, have major operations in the city. A snapshot survey of those members, combined with research by Site Selection and the Memphis Chamber, reveals that roughly a third of IAMC corporate members have operations in the metro area, including companies like United Technologies and General Electric.
        The Memphis metro also includes thriving industrial space markets in North Mississippi cities like Southaven and Olive Branch. Among the Southaven facilities is a 107,000-sq.-ft. (9,940-sq.-m.) cold storage flower warehouse operated by IAMC member company Hallmark.
        The Memphis network of IAMC associate operations is almost as dense, with railroads, construction firms and distribution property companies well represented, in addition to real estate companies like NAI Saig, Staubach and CRESA Partners. Jim Apple, senior vice president of economic development for the Memphis Regional Chamber, is also an IAMC member.
        Like the city's pre-eminent place in most companies' distribution plans, the Memphis Forum will be a must for IAMC members.