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AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1998 At Your Service: Suppliers Key in Mastering Real Estate’s New Realities by Jack Lyne Corporate real estate is morphing again, driven by infrastructure integration and value-based management. Service providers are scrambling, but the leading edge is fundamental in finding solutions, IDRC’s Maryland World Congress underscored. Packard Bell was in deep real estate trouble, […]

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1998 Power Deregulation: A Bumpy Road Begins the Free-Market Ride by Jack Lyne Early brownouts have partially dimmed the luster on electric utility deregulation. Some firms, however are capitalizing, orchestrating lower facility rates and cutting costs through advanced demand-side management. Make no mistake. The global electricity deregulation revolution has not been unplugged. But that […]

Highlights from August/September 1998 COVER STORY AOL’s Balancing Act: The Need for Nearness vs. ‘Virtual Space’ When AOL hit cyberspace hell in 1996, it’s problems were rooted in old-fashioned physical space. But the online king has come back, centralizing brainpower and technology to fuel rapid global expansion. pg. 638 Corporate Real Estate Can Be a […]

JUNE/JULY 1998 C O V E R     S T O R Y Uncommon Gazelles: Unorthodox Strategies Fuel Their Fast-Track Expansions by Jack Lyne Though fast-expanding “little giants” are the stars of today’s entrepreneurial economy, their real estate strategies often buck real estate best practices, a Site Selection survey indicates. Gazelle has become the […]

JUNE/JULY 1998 All Dressed Up with No One to Grow? How Fast-Growth Firms Are Surviving Labor Pains by Jack Lyne Even fabled gazelles are finding their expansion plans beached in the labor pool’s shallow end. But some SMEs are outwitting the work-force crunch. Many areas’ tight labor markets are creating some highly unorthodox corporate expansion […]

Highlights from June/July 1998 COVER STORY Uncommon Gazelles: Unorthodox Strategies Fuel Their Fast-Track Expansions Expansion-minded “little giants” are so influential that firms of all sizes are scampering to understand what makes them tick, coveting the extravagant price/earning ratios with which financial markets are showering them. pg. 492 All Dressed Up with No One to Grow? […]

APRIL/MAY 1998 The Pinnacle of the Profession: Site Selection?s 1997 Top 10 Development Groups by Tim Venable W hen you want results, you go to the top. That?s what site-seeking companies like Compaq Computer, Dana Corp., Georgia Pacific and IBM did last year. They sought location expertise from the pinnacle of the development profession: Site […]

APRIL/MAY 1998 Cost Measurement for the 21st Century by Mark Arend Some executives wonder whether telecommuting and other “dynamic workplace” structures really are cost-efficient. Others seek more accurate tools with which to measure occupancy, equipment and human resources costs tied to specific projects, departments, and business lines. A new accounting methodology, called workpoint cost accounting, […]

Highlights from April/May 1998 COVER STORY The Strategic Art of the Deal: 1997’s Top Ten Spanning four continents, 1997?s top 10 deals illustrate billion-dollar investments, multimillion-dollar incentives and savvy facility location strategy. pg. 190 The Pinnacle of the Profession: Site Selection?s 1997 Top 10 Development Groups pg. 202 Strategic Alternatives to Synthetic Leasing pg. 276 […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? February/March 1998 European Union: How Europe is Rewriting Its Site Location Rules by Mark Arend On January 1, 1999, the euro will emerge as a negotiable currency, replacing several Western European currencies — the exact number of which will be determined in the coming months. “It is very likely that […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? February/March 1998 Real Estate and the Networked Economy: Big Changes in When, Where and How Business Works by Jack Lyne “The future has already arrived; it’s just not evenly distributed yet,” Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future, told a record-setting gathering of more than 2,000 at the […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? February/March 1998 Machinery, Chemical Sectors Claim Most Facilities in ’97 by Mark Arend If new plant announcements are any indication, 1997 was a banner year indeed. More than 7,100 new or expanding plant projects were reported to Site Selection’s New Plant database in 1997, a 22 percent increase over the […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? February/March 1998 Pharmaceutical/Biotech Siting: The Search for Space, Workers, ‘Community’ and Creative Financing by Steve Usdin Today’s pharmaceutical/biotech site selection decisions are driven by factors both old and new. On one hand, the industry is searching for skilled labor and room to expand, traditional location concerns, but increasingly scarce resources […]

Highlights from February/March 1998 COVER STORY Michigan, Midwest Set Fast-Track Pace in 1997’s Record U.S. Race for Corporate Facilities 1997’s annual Site Selection scoreboard tallied a record 10,571 U.S. facility and expansion announcements. pg. 24 European Union: How Europe Is Rewriting Its Site Location Rules pg. 22 IDRC’s Service Delivery Best Practices Award: Ford Motor […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? December 1997/January 1998 Globalizing: Real Estate Payoffs and Perils by Jack Lyne Globalization: Clearly, it’s transformed 20th century business life. Far less clear, though, is how to optimally globalize business operations, particularly when it comes to real estate. “Globalization has been a long evolutionary process,” says Marvin Manheim of Northwestern […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? December 1997/January 1998 The Drive to Globalize: Profit Motive Rules as Foreign Direct Investment Soars by Tim Venable How global is your company? If you’re committed to making your firm as profitable as it can be, it must be increasingly worldwide in scope. Your headquarters might be in Peoria, but […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? December 1997/January 1998 Nokia Wirelessly Takes on the World by Jack Lyne Helsinki-based Nokia has achieved a remarkable business turnaround. After losing US$213 million in 1991-92, the old-line Finnish conglomerate, founded in 1865 as a forest-industry operation, has totally transformed itself. Now, Nokia is the No. 2 world player in […]

Highlights from December 1997/January 1998 COVER STORY Nokia Wirelessly Takes On The World Now, Nokia is the No. 2 world player in the burgeoning mobile phone market, breathing down mighty Motorola’s neck. pg. 1124 Real Estate’s Cream of the Crop: 1997 IDRC Best Practices pg. 1101 Managing Cultural Differences: Challenges For Americans Doing Business In […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? October/November 1997 Case Study: Nortel Builds a New HQ — and a ‘New City’ Global power Nortel shattered the mold with its new headquarters, moving 3,000 key knowledge workers from Class A high-rises to a reconverted, one-story, 1960s’ factory in Brampton, a Toronto suburb. What’s more, it created a workplace […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? October/November 1997 Legislatures on a RollThird Straight Tax Cut Adds $2.6 Billion Shine To Already-Bright State Business Climates by Audrey Pennington State governments found themselves awash with surplus funds in 1997, relatively speaking, more than they’ve seen since 1980. As a result, lawmakers spent much of their legislative sessions figuring […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? October/November 1997 Plumbing China’s Real Estate Puzzle Box Fast-changing China presents an intricate puzzle box of real estate challenges. Here are some of the big issues, derived from Site Selection research and interviews: Corruption: Hong Kong scorns it. C.Y. Leung, the No. 2 man in Hong Kong’s provisional government, pointedly […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? October/November 1997 Flash Points:Hot Business Climates Ignite Worldwide Blaze of Location Moves by Tim Venable Want to know where the world’s hottest business climates are? Just take a look at where companies are placing the most offices, factories and other facilities. According to Conway Data’s exclusive New Plant database, the […]

Highlights from October/November 1997 Hong Kong: Business Still Dances Inside the Dragon’s Jaws, pg. 900 Plumbing China’s Real Estate Puzzle Box, pg. 902 Case Study: Nortel Builds a New HQ — and a ‘New City’, pg. 852 Legislatures On a Roll: Third Straight Tax Cut Adds $2.6 Billion Shine To Already-Bright State Business Climates, pg. […]

by Robert Gaudreau, Regus Frankly, people thought we were crazy when we began considering going to China. It was 1990, only a short time after the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Fears of political backlash and international trade sanctions against China certainly weren’t unwarranted. In addition, there were China’s sky-high real estate prices, labyrinthine bureaucracy and Third […]