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Introduction: Information at your fingertips Welcome to the 4th Quarter 2000 Johnson Controls USA Office Occupancy Costs Index, which provides a snapshot guide to the cost of providing and operating property and facility management services in the USA. This cost index briefing is published twice a year and has become a powerful and dynamic business reference point for property and facility management professionals.
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• Maintenance: costs for labor have continued to rise, increasing as in the last period by nearly 2%. The cost of materials has abated this to some extent, decreasing over the six-month period by just over 3/4%.
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Introduction: Information at your fingertips Welcome to the 4th Quarter 2000 Johnson Controls USA Office Occupancy Costs Index, which provides a snapshot guide to the cost of providing and operating property and facility management services in the USA. This cost index briefing is published twice a year […]
Read MoreSpringfield sparkles with more than two dozen companies supplying everything that’s made of stainless steel.
The builder of a $2.5 billion pipeline moves from Dallas to Omaha to oversee the project.
How Frisco beat out 200-plus cities to land a crown jewel of sports
In earning Site Selection's Canadian Competitiveness Award this year, British Columbia's Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training jumps up from a second-place finish last year to snare the prize.
Recycling waste into energy is becoming big business in the Peach State.
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J ones Lang LaSalle’s (JLL) Global Consulting division recently gave clients and prospects another opportunity to step out of the corporate real estate management fray and put the rapid change they are enduring in context. Dozens of real estate managers joined a team of JLL executives at the firm’s latest Real Estate Leadership Roundtable, in […]
Read MoreEsports and video game programs power up on campus.
Site Selection is pleased to present its fifth annual Best to Invest rankings of nations and metro areas for investment-attraction activity in 2012.
A mattress firm's HQ joins a movie studio in anchoring a new town center in Greater Atlanta.
Manufacturing production has been growing in Indiana at four times the national average since 2000, a new study from Ball State University shows.
Chances are, any manufacturing still alive today is "advanced" by definition. Competition and complexity - both driven by big data - continue to threaten and cajole industry in equal measure. And certain industries, companies and territories are responding better than others.
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U nderstanding how cities view and evaluate projects is critical to developing more cooperative and insightful relationships between your company and the communities in which you do — and would like to do — business. This article presents an overview of how public officials view and evaluate the community impacts associated with economic development projects. […]
Read MoreLynchburg-based BWXT is expanding on multiple fronts, with part of that growth designed to one day propel astronauts to Mars.
Nation's longest-serving governor outlines his plan for improving Iowa's business climate.
Installation of the first steel rolling gate on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal marks a major milestone in the massive expansion project.
Missouri continues to offer an ideal logistics and distribution position for e-commerce.
A brewery in Bend blends area culture with a hot-selling brand.
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T he big news surrounding the Site Selection Governor’s Cup facilities race for 2000 is the fact that the big winners — Michigan and Detroit — are getting quite comfortable taking their respective rides down victory lane. For the fourth year in a row, the state of Michigan claimed the top […]
Read MoreOfficials of the Busan-Jinhae Free Economic Zone recently visited Hawaii, Los Angeles and Seattle to promote the FEZ and Busan’s new “eco-friendly logistics business model.”
Not the musical. The city that’s been leading Ontario in company project attraction over the past year.
NCR just opened a new ATM manufacturing plant in town as part of its big move to Georgia
Brick by brick, LEGO is building a global business empire centered on the meaning of its original name in Danish — “Play well.”
Proximity to the UK and European markets
provides real value for money and is a key factor
for companies investing in Northern Ireland.
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T he year-to-year domination on the football field by legendary giants such as the Dallas Cowboys has nothing on the City of Detroit. Once again Motown claims the title as Site Selection‘s No. 1 U.S. metro for new and expanded facilities and for new manufacturing projects. This title, the fourth straight Site Selection Top Metro […]
Read MoreThe European biotechnology industry developed significantly over the past 10 years and contributed to the development of all of Europe’s industry sectors.
ith more than 80 manufacturing facilities around the globe, plus thousands of retail operations, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has plenty of real estate to oversee. Looking for a way to increase efficiencies in its asset management procedures, Goodyear is now the beta test site for a new product from Intuit, the Mountain View, […]
Emerging markets experts explain why the 30,000-foot approach to location selection won’t work.
The more companies that pick your city the better, so help tell them why they should.
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C hina — perhaps the world’s next great economic superpower — left little doubt that it is ready to dominate Site Selection’s annual international rankings of new and expanded corporate facilities. Of the top 20 global facilities for 2000 in terms of capital investment, China placed two in the top 11, […]
Read MoreWashington leads the way, led by Jefferson, King and Benton counties. Meanwhile, companies and a new research hub are growing in Bellingham.
Three corporate decision-makers explain why their projects are going where they’re going.
Under the leadership of J.P. Nauseef, state agency reels in a record haul.
Ron Starner says the global pandemic has changed the rules of talent attraction, recruitment and retention.
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R inging in the new millennium seems to have had an effect on “new industry” growth. Site Selection‘s annual tally of top industries shows a new entry in the line-up for 2000. Though pharmaceuticals came in at No. 5 in terms of new and expanded facilities, it represents the explosive growth in recent months in […]
Read MoreNorth Carolina winning the Prosperity Cup again this year will come as a shock to some.
Editor in Chief Mark Arend considers the new set of challenges now facing corporate real estate leaders as they recalibrate supply chains and consider reshoring operations.
The Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA) now administers the state’s Shovel Ready Program, working with communities around the state to ensure that its inventory of economic-development-ready sites is current and accurate.
Firms want to employ the region's potential workforce, but these youth's may have bigger plans.
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S ite Selection?s Top 10 New and Expanded Plants for Canada shows an average business investment in the top five projects of more than US$950 million. An overview of projects for last year shows a substantial investment in call centers in Canada. The second most frequent Canadian industry investment, according to Site Selection?s New Plant […]
Read MoreAdvances in internal combustion engines will blunt the impact of rising electric-vehicle market share in the world’s major economies, and the U.S. will not be the top EV market, according to a recent report.
TOP UTILITIES 2007 From Site Selection magazine, September 2007 Business Climate Changers These top utility economic developers know how to renew the economic portfolios of the regions they serve. $500 million in environmental controls, many to be installed at its Sioux Plant (pictured) in St. Charles, Mo., are part of Top Utility Ameren’s $1-billion […]
New rankings revealed today show which states' human beings benefited the most from new LEED-certified space in 2014.
The Texas mystique is real, but its economic dynamism could just as easily be said to come from the distinct characters of its many successful cities.
A tribute to our late president and CEO, written by his father.
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S outh Australia plans to introduce itself to the world as an “Information Economy” success story, and it has just under a year in which to put the necessary pieces in place. Adelaide, the Australian state’s capital city, will be the site of the 2002 WITSA World Congress, a biennial conference of the World Information […]
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Transportation announced in August the availability of approximately $13.4 million in competitive grant funds...
When Caterpillar announced publicly last year that it was moving its corporate headquarters operations from Illinois to Texas, the world took notice.
The people come from different points of origin than the corporate investment. But are there states where high numbers of foreign-born individuals coincide with high numbers of foreign-sourced corporate facility investment?
Where the global aerospace and defense industry
is heading in 2016, according to a major new report from Deloitte.
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G rowing pains and growth obviously go hand in hand. Sprawl and traffic congestion are an inescapable part of modern metropolitan life. Actually it is a barometer of prosperity. The benefits of growth are sometimes lost in the minds and media, especially after a decade of continuous prosperity. When the populous […]
Read MoreRecent biopharma project news, policy evolution and research offer some ideas on the way forward for industry executives facing location decisions.
“We have a mantra in Dell corporate real estate: Set unrealistic expectations . . . and then exceed them,” says Kip Thompson, flashing a smile that’s both playfully devilish and dead serious. Yeah, right, you say? After all, real estate by nature is a long-term process: 24 months to build a facility, 16-18 months if […]
The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2017 reveals how successful tech innovation is being led by young entrepreneurs all over the world.
Sarasota-based Tervis builds on a 75-year legacy of innovation.
On June 7 a celebration took place in honor of St Marys Cement Inc.’s Bowmanville Plant in Ontario receiving North America's first International Organization for Standardization's ISO 50001 certification. St Marys was officially registered as the first North American recipient of ISO 50001, a new standard for industrial facilities seeking to manage their energy use, on November 15, 2011. The plant is located within the municipality of Clarington, located just northeast of Oshawa along the shoreline of Lake Ontario.
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O ne of the challenges businesses face in the New Economy is adapting to changing times without losing their core values – those character qualities that define who they are. The task is no less real for Site Selection magazine as we enter our 48th year of publishing. Launched by McKinley […]
Read MoreInsights from leaders at such companies as Intel, Concentrix and Autodesk reveal why Costa Rica, celebrating its bicentennial this year, is leading the way toward the fourth industrial revolution.
$1 billion initiative will provide opportunities for Hoosier innovation, entrepreneurship and technology to thrive.
When Gov. Scott Walker stared down the powerful public employee unions in Wisconsin two years ago, the landmark budget reform legislation did more than place the Badger State on a path to fiscal recovery.
The medical manufacturing and healthcare sectors are shaping the region.
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Abstracts of major presentations of the International Development Research Council (IDRC), the world’s preeminent corporate real estate association. “Impact on the Workplace and Location: CREM Implications of the Wire-Free Economy,” Copenhagen-Malmo World Congress, Sept. 12, 2000: There’s another major technology race shaping up, much like the race for outer space in the second half of […]
Read MoreHow do you put a price tag on speed to market?
Fortune 500 firms find fertile ground for maximizing growth in Southern California’s new golden market.
It’s not every day a billion-dollar project comes to Hawaii. After all, whatever you produce there has to be transported everywhere else. But the 50th state is part of a very select global club of locations whose conditions produce a rare commodity: transporting views of our planet and of the known universe it occupies.
Marjorie Taylor had a challenge. She needed to find a way to communicate to high school students the importance of taking the ACT WorkKeys assessment seriously.
W hen it comes time to deliver on a pledge to go the extra mile, service providers have lots of options, depending on the assignment and the nature of the client relationship. One that rarely gets much serious consideration is to simply give the service away. After all, service providers in the business world exist […]
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W hen people think of Florida, most probably envision sandy white beaches, family-oriented theme parks and lots of retirement communities. When business people think of Florida, the hot spots of Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Tampa-St. Petersburg, Orlando and Jacksonville readily come to mind. But what about Northwest Florida — or the region locals like […]
Read MorePROJECT FINANCE From Site Selection magazine, November 2007 Interest High in No-Interest Option Islamic finance achieves a higher profile in the industrial world. by ADAM BRUNS,adam.bruns bounce@conway.com T hrough the second quarter of 2007, the global issuance of Islamic bonds, or sukuk, had reached a record level of US$24.5 billion, and showed no signs […]
Trinidad’s arts industries foster a cultural hub that’s a hit with creatives, entrepreneurs and, possibly, big industry.
Learn why 25 companies in 2020 picked Hungary for operations that will add 3,000 jobs to a business services sector that already employs nearly 64,000 at more than 130 companies.
Everyone loves a tiger. Powerful, elegant – yet tricky to manage. Ireland was the Celtic Tiger during the boom of the ‘zeros.
he U.S. transportation industry will experience yet another year of solid growth in 2006, led largely by gains in the trucking sector, according to a report released Nov. 22 by an Atlanta-based consulting firm that tracks and predicts global logistics trends. The ground parcel and less-than-truckload (LTL) categories are projected to experience shipment growth of […]
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I t’s no secret that two of the hottest corporate real estate markets in America are Chicago and Boston. What you may not know is why. After nearly a decade of record US economic expansion, why do these two diverse and yet similar metropolitan markets continue to top the charts for corporate users of industrial […]
Read MoreFrom Site Selection magazine, February 1990 New Facilities 1989 Continue to next page | Site Selection Online ©1990 Conway Data, Inc. All rights reserved. SiteNet data is from many sources and is not warranted to be accurate or current.
Cloud, edge, hyperscale, colocation — whatever type you like, today’s data centers are evolving into the next utility, in every climate.
Kansas’s bioscience leaders are at the forefront of pandemic response.
The health tech sector is changing medical care in Colorado and beyond.
Leading U.S. food brands continue to select the state for business reach and growth.
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O RLANDO, Fla. — Corporate real estate executives have a choice: Change in the face of the e-business revolution or risk being made extinct by it. In a nutshell, that was the overriding theme of the 76th North American IDRC World Congress, held Nov. 4-8 in the tourism capital of the world: […]
Read MoreKeystone Research Center in June released “Making Smarter State Investments,” a 34-page report that cuts to the chase when it comes to chasing down the street addresses of state incentive dollars.
It’s no accident that Minnesotans regularly produce life-changing inventions.
Malaysia is the next logical site for Southeast Asia data centre operations, with dedicated resources and inherent location advantages.
Ron Starner says the global pandemic has changed the rules of talent attraction, recruitment and retention.
W hen SYKES, a world leader of customer care management (CRM) solutions, decided to locate a call center in Sveg, Sweden, the decision was based on the fact that SYKES could service all of Scandinavia from this low-cost, remote location. SYKES typically locates facilities in remote areas. Helping Sveg land the facility was a young, […]
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W aves of “creative destruction” will see large numbers of managerial, professional and technical personnel put out to pasture because the technology is so good. These were only some of the conclusions to come out of the Copenhagen World Congress of the Industrial Development Research Council (IDRC), the pre-eminent corporate real estate (CRE) association, on […]
Read MoreIn the innovative world of food & drink startups, a coastal town is making waves.
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 […]
Texas admitted US$5.357 billion in foreign products in fiscal year 2008, tops in the U.S. among general-purpose FTZs
Oklahoma will soon be home to the Americas’ first rare earth metal and manufacturing facility, giving it a head start in the U.S. as companies bring such operations stateside.
The No. 4 state in the Governor’s Cups ranking is just getting started.
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W hoever said ignorance is bliss obviously wasn’t looking to site a facility, especially not a call center. And when ignorance means missing out on 40-50 percent in labor costs savings … well it could mean blissful unemployment. But on behalf of those not knowing that Canada’s British Columbia (BC) could save their firms that […]
Read MoreChina-based solar module manufacturer Seraphim Energy Group announced last week that it would be investing $829 million in the Huadu district within China’s Guangdong province.
From Tallahassee to Sacramento, lawmakers in state capitals around the United States heeded business leaders? call to ?run government more like a business.? The result: lower taxes, higher revenue surpluses, more incentives for new business, a rush of ?e-government? and information technology initiatives, and greater investment in needed infrastructure projects like roads, bridges, public schools […]
TOP MICROPOLITANS OF 2007 From Site Selection magazine, March 2008 Newcomer Claims Checkered Flag Thomasville-Lexington unseats entrenched incumbent to become the nation’s No. 1 Micropolitan Area for corporate projects. by RON STARNERron.starner bounce@conway.com Richard Childress Racing is expanding both its corporate headquarters and manufacturing plant in Welcome, N.C. F or Richard Childress Racing, winning […]
Think tax certainty doesn't matter to capital investors? Think again. Two of Oregon's largest corporations - Nike and Intel - just signed major expansion deals that will add at least 1,000 jobs to the state's economy in the next few years.
From Arkansas to the battlefield, this industry is reaching new heights.
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P anelists at a recent session on Internet-based capital sources had their work cut out for them. The speakers were part of the program at a NAIOP (National Assoc. of Industrial and Office Properties) conference in Orlando, Fla., in October. “We hope you get so comfortable using the technology that you don’t even think about […]
Read MoreConsumers Energy partners with Grand Rapids leaders to respond to COVID-19.
Site selectors give nod to policy changes coming out of Columbus and Indy, as concerns about taxes and regulations dominate annual survey.
Projects involving DOE National Labs deliver industry-relevant innovation unfolding across the entire federal research facility portfolio.
Pandemic accelerates movement of degreed professionals to Sunbelt suburbs.
Equatorial Guinea remains one of the lesser known destinations for investment in West Africa.
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T he Internet is helping all of us to work faster and better, right? Well, yes and no. Development organizations have created hundreds of Web sites targeting site selectors, but are they really getting the job done any better or faster than the hundreds of brochures, CD-ROMs and videos that came before? To find out, […]
Read MoreThat’s what viewers of such films as “2012,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Titanic” and “Transformers” frequently say of the Academy-Award-winning work of Digital Domain, the Venice, Calif.-based visual effects studio that is owned by Florida investment and technology firm Wyndcrest Holdings.
NOVEMBER 2007 A Serious Passion (cover) Meet a Member IAMC Professional Forum Special Report Request Information
World Reports: Index Mines Social Media and Jaguar Accelerates U.K. Expansion Plans
A KC suburb and college towns are the Sunflower State’s hot spots in 2016.
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R epresentatives of 10 corporate real estate service provider companies left the International Development Research Council’s Florida World Congress in November with at least one item with which they did not arrive in Orlando. These people accepted the 2000 Site Selection/William Dorsey Service Provider Award on behalf of their organizations. This awards program, now in […]
Read MoreEnergy and new agribusiness give Canada's Atlantic Provinces reason to smile.
If attainable workforce housing is on your radar, then recent reports from two valuable resources should be too.
When a former U.S. Attorney in New Jersey is elected governor, and teams up with a lieutenant governor who fought corruption and crime as a federal prosecutor and sheriff, chances are they won’t back down
Here’s how top employers are handling the return-to-office debate.
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T ACOMA, Wash. — When Mitch Davis needed a high-speed launching pad for his startup Internet company, he ditched high-priced Seattle for its blue-collar neighbor some 35 miles to the south: Tacoma. When John Gorst needed a place to set up his Internet utility company that provides Web hosting of applications for small businesses around […]
Read MoreEDITOR’S VIEW From Site Selection magazine, September 2009 Why Infrastructure Matters by MARK AREND mark.arend bounce@conway.com Illustration by Bob Gravlee T he $787 billion economic stimulus package signed into law in February does a lot of things. Stimulating the economy isn’t one of them, if its seven-month track record is any indication. But it […]
Machinery and food & beverage finish No. 1 and No. 2 for 2022 behind strong surges over 2021 totals.
If you didn’t know any better, you might think every plant or life sciences project in Canada is being driven by cannabis legalization.
C all it coincidence, but much attention is being given of late to the importance of competitiveness in the context of economic development, including here at Site Selection. No fewer than three new resources are suddenly at the disposal of corporate real estate executives and others charged with selecting the best location in which to […]
Malaysia is becoming Southeast Asia's most compelling example of how to transform a manufacturing economy into one excelling in Research & Development.
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Those funding new Internet ventures–and those in corporate real estate to whom they are targeted–are wise to sit back for a while and let the dust settle. Consider the past 18 months. In mid-1998, perhaps a few dozen Internet operations were in place working on “Web-enabling” various real estate processes, having secured a round or […]
Read MoreFrom Site Selection magazine, July 2004 ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION Tech Transfer Thrives In Mountain States University research is generating startups, jobs. The scenic University of Utah campus launches three to eight startup companies each year. by JOHN W. McCURRY T ocky Mountain states have long had a leg up in the all-important […]
Consumer demand patterns are shifting rapidly, affecting shipping requirements, order cycle times, retail formats and service level requirements. Rising fuel and utilities costs, burdensome regulations, changes in tax laws and sustainability requirements, labor supply and union issues, municipal and state economic incentives and so many other cost considerations are volatile and challenging today.
Texas, Georgia, North Carolina and other top states know what’s good for the Goliaths can be good for the Davids too.
In October 2014, UK-based Vernalis Therapeutics Inc. established its first-ever US base in Berwyn in Chester County, Pennsylvania
Students of industry clusters will find in North Carolina’s new aerospace industry a case study in how a sector takes root in a given area. Several companies, including Federal Express, Spirit AeroSystems and Honda Aircraft among others have begun operations in the state, adding thousands of jobs and justification for a closer look from aviation-related corporate site selectors.
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It?s official, already: The glow is back on the Golden State?s business climate. That?s the scoop from the top of Site Selection?s business climate rankings for 2000. California this year moved all the way up to No. 1 from 1999?s No. 5 finish. The Golden State ranks as a perennial business location powerhouse, of course, […]
Read MoreWyoming is the best state in the US for taxes on businesses, and its capital, Cheyenne, is the best city in which to find a job, according to recent analysis.
Many western companies with international expansion ambitions are looking to expand their operations in Asia and considering where to focus.
Alcoa is taking measures worldwide to reduce high-cost smelting capacity. But the company is striking a different chord in the often strike-prone territory of Québec, where Alcoa and the provincial government announced in February an agreement to improve the competitiveness of its three smelters, securing 3,000 jobs.
The project speaks to the transformative momentum in northeast Indiana.
Alcoa’s CSO says if you’re not uncomfortable yet, the goal isn’t high enough.
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World business climates in late 2000 are, for the most part, fair. But some forces are at work that could change that in the New Year. Energy prices in Western markets, particularly the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, are exerting pressure on businesses that manufacture and transport goods. A scarcity of skilled labor is a […]
Read MoreA billion-dollar fund and a gigantic conglomerate drive biopharma investment in South Korea.
If only the Y2K bug could be gotten rid of as easily as its counterparts in the natural world. It cannot, of course, and there is a palpable sense of foreboding surrounding the run-up to Jan. 1, 2000, when non-Y2K-compliant computers will assume it?s 1900. There is an even stronger sense in some circles that […]
If you’re a French contract research organization looking to grow in North America, then Montreal and Newark appear to be prime places to splash down.
States trying to get a big corporate facility project across the goal line sometimes have to call special legislative sessions to approve incentive packages or other special statutory measures designed to cinch the deal. But in the interest of speed, recent years have seen an increase in discretionary incentive funds established for just this purpose.
