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've saved this space to recognize some outstanding individuals in the corporate real estate profession -- the seven winners of this year's Site Selection Corporate Real Estate Leadership Awards, which were presented at the CoreNet Global Summit this past May, in Salt Lake City. With their permission, we will spotlight the work they do and the achievements recognized at the awards ceremony in future issues.

       
The point of the awards is to honor leadership in vexing circumstances, the ability to inspire a team to meet and exceed seemingly daunting goals and the demonstrated ability to deliver verifiable and enviable results to the bottom line. Recitation of ivory-tower platitudes doesn't cut it. The leaders honored in Salt Lake City met all three criteria and managed to sidestep the sand trap. If you don't already know these people, I encourage you to at least make their acquaintance, send them a note -- pick their brains. I intend to.

       
Here they are.

       
The Tennessee Valley Authority's Senior Vice President Terrell Burkhart, among other things, led a team charged with rapidly executing a strategic facility plan that resulted in disposition of non-core facilities and potential savings of $25 million over five years.

       
Robert Hamilton, vice president, corporate real estate at CIGNA, led efforts to roll back occupancy costs through cost-containment measures and alternate workplace strategies by as much as $50 million in 2001.

       
Among other things, Vice President Charles McSwain of CSX leads a process-improvement team comprised of finance, design, construction and other business units that streamlines site selection, budgeting and project execution. He is behind a 20-percent reduction in lease-to-company costs over the past two years.

       
Tony Miele, president and CEO of Ontario Realty Corp., has introduced new workplace strategies and implemented team approaches to property asset management. He has "right-sized" a 1,200-member staff to 260 highly skilled employees; staff numbers have declined, but revenues through sales and leases are rising.

       
Bruce Richards, national manager, portfolio operations, at Australia Postal Corp., has, among other things, overseen productivity gains and facility consolidations that have yielded average savings of $33 million per year.

       
Sanford Smith, corporate manager, real estate and facilities, at Toyota Motor Sales USA, is a proven leader in managing business unit relationships and a pioneer in the application of sustainable principles to design and construction projects. And Sandy is seeding the profession by bringing interns into his shop to learn the corporate real estate ropes.

       
And James Winter, senior corporate real estate specialist at ALCOA Inc., has, among other things, supervised the outsourcing of real estate functions resulting in savings of 11.5 percent and overseen strategic consolidations and site closures ($3.3million in savings) and dispositions ($13.8 million).

       
Congratulations to all of the winners.

       
I want to draw your attention to another source of leadership in this industry, which you're either reading in print form or online right now. Site Selection's content is increasingly recognized as the most authoritative available in the corporate real estate and economic development industries.

       
At press time, we were preparing to accept three Magazine Association of Georgia awards. At the risk of jinxing things, we anticipate more awards from business publishing entities in the coming weeks. I'll keep you posted.

       
And I am pleased to introduce two new editors, both of whom are as committed as I am to providing the most insightful editorial content in our field. Adam Bruns's byline should be familiar to regular readers. A skilled writer and editor, Adam joined the staff in March as managing editor; he had been a regular contributor to Site Selection since March 2001. And John McCurry joined us recently as senior editor, having worked for several years in senior editorial roles at Textile World, covering another industry in transition.

       
So stay tuned. We have a powerful line-up of articles planned for the rest of the year and for 2003, among other things.



Till next time,










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TOP METROS OF 2008 From Site Selection magazine, March 2009   Rapid Riser Houston surges to No. 1 metro ranking by dominating the energy sector and landing huge tech deals. by RON STARNERron.starner bounce@conway.com The Hess Corp. has signed a long-term lease to occupy the entire 844,763-sq.-ft. (78,478-sq.-m.) Discovery Tower office building in downtown Houston. […]

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The Joy of Work

Coaching Can Be a Conduit for Companies Seeking Neurodiverse Talent

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TOP MICROPOLITANS

ean Smith became a legend in North Carolina by guiding his Tar Heel basketball teams to unprecedented greatness. In the world of college hoops, Smith’s program was considered a dynasty.    It’s not too early to start using the “D-word” when talking about an unprecedented string of victories racked up by another North Carolina program. Statesville […]

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Former Steel Plant To Make Solar Energy Equipment

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Question & Insight: The Green Team, Site Selection Magazine, January 2003

D evelopers of new facilities have a very basic decision to make at the outset of a project, be it a new manufacturing plant, a distribution center or any other facility. Will its impact on the environment be negative or positive in the long term? Those who choose to design and build a project that […]

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Mixing the Right Rx for Pfizer’s 600

 P fizer’s 600-employee expansion in Ann Arbor, Mich., looked deceptively simple — on paper, at least, once it was a done deal.         One number fairly leaps out in the postmortem: a whopping US$84.2 million in incentives, certainly enough to vacuum-seal most major expansions. And those bountiful incentives certainly did help seal […]

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Looking through the Alltech lens provides a global perspective on the business of feeding the world.

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Dual Advantage

If you’ve just launched the nation's first specialized, bundled insurance program for commercial-scale solar installations, it only makes sense to try it out yourself first.

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New Challenges to Regional Giants’ Dominance

China and India metros dominate this year’s Best to Invest ranking of Asia-Pacific cities — determined by Site Selection’s New Plant Database, LocationSelector.com analysis from Amsterdam-based IC Associates and a survey of global site consultants. But there’s plenty of activity elsewhere in the region, particularly in Sydney, Australia, and Seoul and Ulsan, South Korea, which ranked sixth, seventh and eighth, respectively.

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More Than a Hobby

Growing a corporate presence means tapping into a culture in Oklahoma. The model that Hobby Lobby has used successfully for many years in retail site selection is now being employed at its corporate headquarters in Oklahoma City.

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In the Black

Data centers, among others, are poised to take advantage of Wyoming’s power advantages — today and tomorrow.

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Top Ten Deals of 2001

 T here’s a reason why Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Ford and General Motors all call the Southeastern U.S. home for some of the country’s largest automotive assembly plants. It’s because the South knows how to get the blockbuster economic development deals done.         Last year, the South accounted for three of […]

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Philly’s Resurgent Refineries

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Putting On the Miles

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Sunlight Fuels Power Surge

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Next Level

Cambodia’s Minister of Commerce moves fast with reforms so that new FDI will move faster to his homeland.

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