February 9, 2012
Family Ties
Family Ties: North America’s easternmost corner aligns its assets and its megaprojects.
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February 8, 2012
Technology InSITE: Partners in Progress
Alcoa served as the beta test company for Fischer’s technology. The company uses Fischer’s ManagePath and CREDashboard technologies.
February 8, 2012
Taming the Wild West
Can the land of the wild, wild West become the next high-tech haven of choice? It can if more executives follow the example of Kent Holliday, the founder of Eleutian Technology in Cody, Wyo. The world's largest network of certified instructors who teach English as a second language, Eleutian recently made its home in the town.
February 8, 2012
Asia’s ‘Sun Belt’ Lures New Projects
Japan’s Panasonic Corp. is one of the latest multinationals to toss its hat in Malaysia’s solar industry ring. Malaysia’s Kulim Hi-Tech Park, which is becoming a nexus for solar module production, is also home to high-tech companies such as Infineon.
February 8, 2012
Fuel Costs Now Drive D.C. Site Decisions
Companies are increasingly citing fuel savings among the prime reasons for recent distribution center location decisions. One example is AWG (Associated Wholesale Grocers), a retailer-owned cooperative based in Kansas City, Kan. AWG is building its seventh grocery distribution center on a 68-acre (28-hectare) site in Pearl River, La.
February 8, 2012
SITE Visit: Clear Signals
ESPN’s campus in Bristol, Conn., has been expanding ever since the network started 30 years ago. The latest new building, the $100-million Digital Center 2, was announced in August.
February 8, 2012
Flight to Profitability
Air cargo hubs in the Pacific Northwest help global firms streamline supply chains. For global companies using the Pacific Northwest as a gateway to the Americas, many are increasingly turning to air transport. One reason Anchorage is so popular as an air cargo hub is because it is 9.5 hours or less from 90 percent of the industrialized world.
February 1, 2012
How Shale Gas Is Redefining the U.S. Energy Landscape
Game-changing increases in natural gas supply require pipeline networks of game-changing reach and new facilities from which to export much of it to high-demand regions globally. In 2009, the United States passed Russia to become the world’s leader in natural gas production.
January 26, 2012
More Than Good Signs
More Than Good Signs: Our downstairs neighbor moves on to a new worldwide headquarters.
January 25, 2012
Game Changers
A look at two places where the digital media stars align: the video game industry is thriving and creating lots of high-paying jobs. Two areas that fall into this category are Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a Utah technology corridor anchored by Salt Lake City stretching north to Ogden and south to Provo.
January 25, 2012
The Better Buildings Bandwagon
President Barack Obama on Dec. 2 stood in a Transwestern property in the nation’s capital to announce nearly $4 billion in combined federal and private sector energy upgrades to buildings over the next two years.
January 25, 2012
Tide’s Churning
A project in the East River snares the first license from FERC.
January 25, 2012
Turnabout Is Fairest Play
A decade ago all the buzz was about the need for more liquefied natural gas terminals in the United States to import all that LNG the rest of the world was going to send.
January 24, 2012
Daimler Expands at ‘Birthplace of the Automobile’; Container Growth; Audio for China; Auto Supplier Expands Globally
Daimler invested €670 million (US$873 million) in 2011 and plans to spend more than €980 million ($1.3 billion) in 2012 on its main Mercedes-Benz powertrain plant in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim, Germany; Weidenhammer Packaging Group (WPG), a major European supplier of composite cans, composite drums and plastic containers; Stamford, Conn.-based audio specialist Harman International Industries; Germany-based Leoni, a leading provider of cables and cable systems to the automotive sector and other industries.
January 23, 2012
Town and Country
Hamilton is CEO of Renmatix, a young and growing producer of cellulosic sugars for the global renewable chemical and fuels markets. Working with building owner Brandywine Realty Trust, architect Pier Derrickson of KlingStubbins and contractor Hollister Construction Services, the Renmatix team just saw the completion of the headquarters fit-out.
January 23, 2012
European Vacation
Europe’s reluctance to accept genetically modified foods is giving a boost to the fast-growing ag-bio sector in North Carolina. BASF announced on Jan. 16 that it was retreating from the European plant biotechnology market in favor of markets in North and South America. In the process, the company plans to move 123 positions to its Research Triangle Park campus over the next two years.
January 23, 2012
North Carolina’s Life Science Success Story
In North Carolina, we see that opportunity manifest in the bricks and mortar of corporate office buildings, in glass and steel of high-tech production facilities and in the faces of the workers at our more than 530 life-science companies.
January 18, 2012
Where the Tech Jobs Are
The Brookings Institution's December 2011 MetroMonitor report includes Detroit and Grand Rapids in its list of the 20 metros with the strongest economic recoveries, crediting growth in manufacturing activity, particularly associated with production of autos, auto parts and related durable goods.
January 18, 2012
Tarsands Testimonial
Economist Thomas Faranda, in a spring 2011 talk before the Industrial Asset Management Council, called Canada a sleeping giant, albeit one that’s about to wake up. And its alarm clock is perched on its Western half.
January 18, 2012
Material Legacies Converge
Pennsylvania-based stainless steel and premium alloy manufacturer Carpenter Technology Corp. in October chose a 230-acre (93-hectare) site near the Limestone County, Alabama, municipality of Athens, in the Huntsville metro area, for a US$500-million new plant that will make premium alloy products.
January 18, 2012
ESBAS
Located in beautiful Izmir, one of the principal cities on the Mediterranean Sea and Turkey's primary port for exports, ESBAS is home to global powerhouses like Hugo Boss, Fokker Elmo, Pratt & Whitney, PFW, Delphi Diesel, Gates, Mahle, Delphi Packard, Eldor Electronics, Aero and Cummins Inc. Together the companies located within ESBAS generate more than US$5 billion annually in manufacturing and trade.
January 17, 2012
Home Advantage
Employment of home-based agents continues to be a growing trend in the contact center world. Some traditional brick-and-mortar contact center operators use home agents to supplement their centers, while several companies employ home agents exclusively.
January 17, 2012
Dealing With the Squeeze
Government cutbacks spur site selectors to seek locations with strong balance sheets. A new era of fiscal austerity — from the federal level on down — is prompting site selection consultants to steer an increasing number of projects toward destinations that have their financial houses in order.
January 12, 2012
The Pressure Builds
The Pressure Builds: Need to go where the water is? Need to know where the water is? Either way, you need to read this.