M anaging and communicating information regarding industrial construction projects to maintain accountability has long been a challenge for company owners. By providing fast access to centralized project information, Internet collaboration platforms are gradually gaining acceptance as a way to increase efficiencies, improve communications and curtail cost overruns.         Constructware (www.constructware.com), an Alpharetta, […]

E conomic development officials in Ohio are hoping their capture of the 2003 Governor’s Cup is the beginning of a repeat of the state’s three-year claim to the prize 10 years ago. In 1993 and for the next two years, Ohio won Site Selection‘s highly coveted Governor’s Cup, which recognizes the state in which the […]

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T wo independent sources of foreign direct investment intelligence essentially concur where business expansion and relocation in 2003 is concerned. Both Conway Data’s New Plant database, which has tracked such activity for 40 years, and IBM Business Consulting Services-Plant Location International’s (IBM-PLI) GILD (Global Investment Location Database) make the same case: Corporations are not shutting […]

F orget about the Curse of the Billy Goat. Chicago is America’s No. 1 market for new and expanded corporate facilities for the third year in a row.         According to data from Site Selection‘s New Plant Database, Chicago registered more project activity than any other U.S. metropolitan area in 2003. Longsuffering […]

T he road to boomtown travels up through the heartland of America and arrives at a place called Traverse City, Mich.         Ranked for the second year in a row by Site Selection as the No. 1 small town in America for new and expanded corporate facilities, Traverse City exemplifies a community […]

R ecord sales of cars and trucks around the world in 2003 fueled a new round of facility expansions among transportation equipment manufacturers.         According to data from Site Selection‘s New Plant Database, transportation equipment manufacturers accounted for more new and expanded plants last year than any other industry.       […]

E ast side, west side, biotech research parks are going up all around the town in Baltimore. Two major bio parks are in the works that figure to enhance Maryland’s already strong presence in the field. Maryland’s biotech industry has been ranked as the third most concentrated among U.S. states and includes more than 300 […]

T he North American customer contact center industry, historically in a constant state of flux, has seen turbulence rise to new levels over the past year. Sea changes have been aplenty whether it be the early returns of the Do Not Call registry’s effect on telemarketing jobs or increased offshoring of inbound customer service jobs […]

ith office vacancy rates low and rents high on what is available, quality office space is scarce. And, even though vacancy rates may be rising in the industrial property sector, many companies want a custom-designed facility that fits their specific needs, but they do not want to purchase the building. What’s more, lenders and developers […]

ore communities, regions and states are turning to the concept of Cluster Development. The advantages of close relationships between key industries and their suppliers, complementary industries, economic development and support institutions have been proven in many regions around the world.         But how do corporate real estate executives, site location consultants and […]

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. […]

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, […]

by MARK AREND A ge is a state of mind, say those who take in stride turning, say, 40, 50 or 60. Trying to dodge the inevitable is futile.         In the publishing business, we look forward to such milestones, and the bigger the birthday, the better. Longevity, especially in larger measures, […]