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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: PORTS AND FREE TRADE ZONES

anufacturers increasingly are taking advantage of the benefits of locating plants inside U.S. Foreign Trade Zones, according to a new report by Greg Jones, senior consultant to the Foreign- Trade Zone Corp.    In the 66th Annual Report of the Foreign- Trade Zones Board to the U.S. Congress, Jones states that shipments received at General- Purpose […]

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TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX

Silicon technology specialist Intel’s vast real estate portfolio includes 49 million sq. ft. (455,210 sq. m.) stretching across 200 locations in over 50 countries. A diverse company, Intel encompasses a variety of products and services.    “When people think about Intel, they certainly think about microprocessors, but we have 12 major business units which we break […]

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WORLD REPORTS

NOVEMBER 2006 Infineon Inaugurates $1B Malaysian Fab (cover) Hong Kong Air Cargo Hub Gets ‘SuperSized’ N.C.-Based Textile Firm Opens Factory In China; Let Europe Eat Cake Brewer Puts Latin Projects on Tap; Survey Says London Is Still Hard to Beat Give Us Your Opinion! WORLD REPORTS Edited by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com Infineon Inaugurates $1B […]

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North American Reports: Honda’s Sure Thing

From Site Selection magazine, September 2006 NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS Honda’s Sure Thing A new assembly plant in southeast Indiana is just part of the solution for both a region and a company. by ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com D uring his first weeks as director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget under President George […]

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: BIOTECH LOCATION STRATEGIES

orest City Enterprises, a Chicago-based developer of biotech parks nationwide, would not necessarily have selected the Denver area for a new biosciences park several years ago. The company’s first park was built 20 years ago adjacent to MIT in the heart of one of the most pre-eminent biotech clusters in the country, says Michael Rosen, […]

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COVER STORY

E ver- growing volumes of global trade are driving many of the world’s current great infrastructure projects. This is particularly true in some of the crossroads of commerce, such as the Panama Canal, and in the world’s burgeoning manufacturing centers, such as India. Infrastructure projects under way today in Central and South America and the […]

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EDITORS’S VIEW

ithin days of this issue arriving at your address, many in the U.S. and elsewhere will be noting with sadness and anger the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. What a different world we are in, and have been in for the last five years. It doesn’t seem so long ago that one […]

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SEPTEMBER 2006 Changes Over Time (cover) Gov. Kaine: Virginia History Rooted in Economic Growth Vaccine Territory Request Information

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TOP UTILITIES 2006

f you think your company faces tough times these days, imagine being an electric utility.    Confronted with record demand for energy, rising fuel prices and global competition, North American power companies must build new business models if they are to thrive.    Consider the latest test for the U.S. power grid, a series of three interconnected […]

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: WORK-FORCE TRAINING PROGRAMS

hen it comes to the value of continuous learning and study, there is no shortage of studies. A common finding of most of them may be the most agreed- upon but least acted- upon facet of the United States’ growing concern over its skills deficit: The primary importance of work- force training. Those cities, regions […]

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NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS

JULY 2006 Barracks to Biologics (cover) Little Greenville Lands Big Solar Plant, 1,200 Planned Jobs Give Us Your Opinion! NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS Barracks to Biologics Bristol-Myers Squibb Chooses Devens for $660-million Plant by ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com W orld War II barracks are coming down and modern biologics lab and manufacturing space is going up on […]

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ASSET DISPOSITION

onday, 8 a.m. You find a note taped to your computer screen: “Sell the Pennsylvania facility ASAP.” It’s a vacant manufacturing site that has been idle for years. Perhaps the message is from the CFO, suddenly (or finally) authorizing you to sell. Or maybe you made the note to yourself, thinking it’s by JAMES HAGY […]

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COVER STORY

JULY 2006 When to Hold ‘Em (cover) Look Inside First Atypical Approach Regional Choices, International Scope Shaw Team Engineers Solutions Give Us Your Opinion! COVER STORY When to Hold ‘Em Shaw Industries Repurposes Assets, Reinvigorates Towns by ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com “We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation […]

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EDITORS’S VIEW

uch is being made lately of the notion of the flat world, thanks in part to Thomas Friedman’s best-seller, The World Is Flat (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005). Few of us haven’t read a few chapters of that book on flights here and there. But he’s reporting on, or giving a lexicon to, phenomena we […]

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July 2006 Best-Case Scenario (cover) IAMC Year in Review 2006 Nike, Kimball LEED the Way By Starting at Home Request Information

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: ECONOMIC INCENTIVES PROGRAMS

ob retention efforts are important on different levels, not the least of which is that job loss is devastating for both individuals and communities. While it may be too early to evaluate the effectiveness of certain job retention programs, the states’ efforts have provided policies that may affect positive change.    To put the issue in […]

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: NEW YORK

JULY 2006 New Technology Changing New York State (cover) Chenango County, New York High Tech’s New Home for Innovation TCN Worldwide Request Information SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION NEW YORK Venture capital, R&D centers, new tax policies alter the economic landscape of the Empire State. Joining Bausch & Lomb Chairman and CEO Ronald Zarrella, at the podium, for […]

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: LEADERS IN INDUSTRIAL REAL ESTATE

JULY 2006 What Does It Take to Become a Leader In the Field of Industrial Real Estate? (cover) Client Service Focus Keeping Up With the Ever-evolving Industrial Real Estate Marketplace Request Information SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION LEADERS IN INDUSTRIAL REAL ESTATE What Does It Take to Become a Leader In the Field of Industrial Real Estate? Corporate […]

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TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX

ith 70 million sq. ft. (6.5 million sq. m.) of space spread across its global real estate portfolio, Whirlpool Corp. needs a robust system to keep track of facilities and implement real estate strategies. For more than two years, the Benton Harbor, Mich.-based appliance manufacturer has been using Jones Lang LaSalle’s OneView dashboard productivity tool […]

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WORLD REPORTS

JULY 2006 Bulgaria Gains As EU Accession Nears (cover) Singapore Attracts New High-Tech, Logistics Investment Cargill Expanding In Africa and Europe ThyssenKrupp Plans $2.4B Brazil Steel Mill Give Us Your Opinion! WORLD REPORTS Edited by JOHN W. McCURRY john.mccurry bounce@conway.com Bulgaria Gains As EU Accession Nears I n the run-up to Bulgaria’s accession to the European […]

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May 2006 The Knowledge Team (cover) Meet a Member Incentives: The Devil’s in the Details Developer: Be Flexible, Global and Political A Sleeper Project Request Information

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COVER STORY

MAY 2006 Fast Action (cover) More Than Just a Helping Hand The Other Environment Next Steps Knowledge Multipliers Give Us Your Opinion! COVER STORY Fast Action Intel’s multiple blockbuster projects illustrate where global corporate competition and territorial competitiveness collide. by ADAM BRUNS adam.bruns bounce@conway.com The cranes are dancing at Ocotillo, the site in Chandler, Ariz., where […]

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MAGS GAMMA AWARDS

ite Selection has won two prestigious awards from the Magazine Association of the Southeast – the Gold Award for Best Magazine Website (www.siteselection.com) and the Bronze Award for Best Custom Publishing for business-to-business magazines. Both awards represent the top prizes awarded in each category. The association announces the winners of these and other awards at […]

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EDITORS’S VIEW

ur May issue each year salutes the economic developers vying for your capital investment – the sell side. We keep the cover story and primary editorial focus on the buy side, where it belongs, which is on project information and location intelligence as communicated to us by your peers in corporate real estate. But there […]

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