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Blockbuster Deal of the Week
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Profiles of corporate real estate's multimillion-dollar blockbusters, the facility
location projects avidly courted by area economic developers around the world.

September 11, 2008	GM Sets Sail on $859-Million Cruze
June 2, 2008	Embraer Jets into Florida With First U.S. Plant'
March 13, 2008	Amazonian: Huge New HQ, 3,000 More Employees
February 14, 2008	South Dakota's $10-Billion 'Gorilla'

December 06, 2007	Virginia Readies for Rolls
September 20, 2007	Hoosierland's Gone Global
July 26, 2007	Illinois Lawmakers Consider $2.6B Clean-Coal Lode
April 19, 2007	Incoming in Vietnam
January 04, 2007	Fly Me to the Moon — and Much, Much Farther

December 21, 2006	Globetrotting Multinational Remains in Gift Capital
September 7, 2006	Another Mickey Mouse Deal Brewing? Biomed Titan Burnham Is Orlando-Bound
October 16, 2006	BP Adding 2,080 Jobs, Investing $3.25B in Blunder-Prone U.S. Arm
July 10, 2006	New York's Big Subsidies Bolster Upstate's Winning Bid for AMD's $3.2-Billion 300-MM. Fab
June 15, 2006	Canadian Bakin'
May 4, 2006	Texas-Size Stakes: Austin Lands Samsung's $4-Billion Fab
March 16, 2006	Georgia Finally Lands the Big One
February 2, 2006	More than a Pipe Dream

December 22, 2005	Globetrotting Multinational Remains in Gift Capital
November 7, 2005	Blind Faith to Win ... Please.
September 29, 2005	Stirling Stirs Up California Solar Scene
September 1, 2005	Oil, Waste, Atoms and Wind
August 15, 2005	Arcelor to invest US$4 billion in Brazil
August 1, 2005	Desert Blossom
July 18, 2005	Posco to invest US$12 billion in India
July 04, 2005	By the Time We Get to Woodstock
June 20, 2005	All Over But the Shouting
June 6, 2005	Canadian Wood Firm Drifts South
May 23, 2005	Chevron, Shell and ExxonMobil Move Ahead Down Under With US$8.4-billion LNG project
May 9, 2005	Batting 1,000 in Poland
April 28, 2005	Richmond Gets Richer: Altria's Philip Morris USA to Invest $300 Million
March 23, 2005	Chrysler Follows Suit in Michigan With $506-Million Investment
March 7, 2005	LCD Squared
March 7, 2005	GM Investment Sets Record in Canada
Feburary 16, 2005	Big Beef: Tyson Bringing 1,600-Worker Meat Plant to Texas
January 31, 2005	Austal Adding 600 Alabama Jobs to Build New Navy Ship
January 17, 2005	IBM, Partners Creating 1,000+ Jobs with $2.7 Billion in New York Projects
January 3, 2005	Countrywide Bringing 7,500 Jobs to Texas, Getting $20M in Incentives

December 13, 2004	The 'Buffalo' Has Landed: $560M, 650-Job U.S.-Italian Project Charleston-bound
November 29, 2004	Honda Adding 5,000 Jobs in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, China
November 8, 2004	Subsidies At Last Secured, Ford Unveils $818-Million Ontario Expansion
October 25, 2004	Sanofi-Aventis Taps New Jersey for U.S. HQ, 3000+ Jobs
October 14, 2004	Big Blue’s Big Move: IBM Adding 1,250 Northern Virginia Jobs
September 20, 2004	Countrywide's Arizona Gold Rush: 2,000 New Jobs Phoenix-Bound
August 30, 2004	Goldman Building $1.8B NYC Headquarters, Adding 4,000 Jobs
August 16, 2004	Chrysler, Suppliers Joining in Innovative $2.1B Toledo Deal
August 2, 2004	Cantor Fitzgerald Finds Permanent NYC HQ, Will Add 200 Jobs
July 19, 2004	Bank of NY Adding as Many as 800 Jobs in Syracuse
July 05, 2004	Express Expansion: DHL Spending $1.2B to Bulk Up U.S. Presence
June 21, 2004	Japan's Toyo Rolling into Georgia with 900-Job Tire Plant
June 7, 2004	Financial Powerhouse DTCC Taps Tampa for 500-Job Center
May 24, 2004	Fence Fuss Fixed at Last, Pixar Plans 1,300-Job California HQ Expansion
May 10, 2004	At Last: Infineon's $1B Virginia Fab Expansion Finally a Go
April 19, 2004	Nokia Picks New York for 300-Employee HQ, CFO's Office
April 5, 2004	Tight Schedule, Owned Site Spur Genentech's $600M California Expansion
March 22, 2004	SE Michigan Lands GEMA's $323-Million, 250-Employee Plant
March 1, 2004	CMA-CGM Picks Norfolk, Va., as Port of Call for 376-Employee HQ
February 16, 2004	Aisin's 400-Employee Automotive Plant Headed for East Tennessee Hills
February 2, 2004	GEICO (Along with Warren Buffett) Picks Buffalo for 2,500-Worker Center
January 19, 2004	Home Depot Picks Hagerstown, Md., for 230-Employee Distribution Center
January 5, 2004	Merit Medical's $25M Utah Expansion Could Add 500 Jobs

December 15, 2003	Boeing Back Where It Belongs
December 1, 2003	Back to the Futura: Ford Adding 2,000 Jobs in $1B Mexican Project
November 17, 2003	Tempur-Pedic's 300-Worker Mattress Plant Bedding Down in New Mexico
October 27, 2003	Bought for $1, 1MSF Former Bayer Complex Will House Nonprofit's Indiana HQ
October 13, 2003	Scripps' New Florida Center Will Likely Spur Thousands of Spin-Off Jobs
September 29, 2003	DC Says $600M Hello to Alabama, $750M Goodbye to Georgia
September 15, 2003	Old Man FedEx: Kentucky, Texas Centers Could Create 3,700+ Jobs
September 1, 2003	KBI BioPharma's 550-Worker Plant Headed for Durham, N.C.
August 18, 2003	Expanding Compressors: Copeland Adding 360 Workers in New Missouri Plant
August 4, 2003	Denso Picks Hard-Hit NE Arkansas Area for 500-Worker Plant
July 21, 2003	Job Engine: Ford's New V6 Ensures 780 Ohio Workers' Future
July 7, 2003	Shifting Japan-Based Production: Nissan Adding 1,500 Tennessee Jobs to Up Efficiency, Cut Costs
June 16, 2003	Cow Pie in the Sky? $1B Calif. 'Energy Park' Would Create 700 Jobs
June 2, 2003	'Medicine City' Status Spurs Caremark's HQ Move to Nashville
May 26, 2003	Update: Mercedes' Georgia Plant – Sprinting to the Finish
May 19, 2003	Pfizer's Post-Merger Shuffle: NYC Adding 2,000 Jobs in $1B Investment
May 5, 2003	Fidelity's HQ Relocation Creating at Least 750 Jobs in Jacksonville
April 21, 2003	Capital Idea: New Government Contracts Spurring 900 Unisys Jobs in N. Virginia
April 7, 2003	Wal-Mart Picks NW Virginia for 1,000-Worker Mid-Atlantic Distribution Center
March 24, 2003	Philip Morris Relocating NYC Headquarters to Native Virginia Area
March 10, 2003	Michelin Investing $154M More in Southern Oklahoma Tire Plant
February 24, 2003	Lowe's 600-Job, $73M Distribution Center Goes to Osceola County, Fla.
February 10, 2003	Toyota Picks Texas for 2,000-Employee, $800M Assembly Plant
January 27, 2003	VW Spending $2B, Adding 1,500 Workers, New Line at Mexican Plant
January 13, 2003	250-Employee Tracker Marine Plant Docking in Miami . . . Okla.

December 30, 2002	Cars Fall on Alabama: 430-Worker Mobis Plant Starts Hyundai Supplier Surge
December 16, 2002	Bosch Adding 200 Workers in $200M South Carolina Mfg. Expansion
December 2, 2002	Tokyo Electron Plugging $300M R&D Center into Albany, N.Y.
November 11, 2002	Pataki, Clinton Team to Bring Scienx's 505-Employee R&D/Mfg. Facility to Upstate NY
October 28, 2002	Savannah the Preferred Site for New $750-million Plant from DaimlerChrysler
October 14, 2002	LES Taps Middle Tennessee Site for $1.1-B Uranium Enrichment Plant
September 30, 2002	Toyota Adding 700 Ontario Workers as Part of $414M Expansion
September 16, 2002	Ticketed for Oblivion, BOA's Wichita Call Center Will Now Be 600-Worker Mortgage Center
September 9, 2002	Onetime Dead Plant Walkin', GM's Baltimore Facility Gets Two-Year Reprieve
September 2, 2002	Wal-Mart Picks Northeast Oklahoma for $600M, 700-Worker Food Distribution Center
August 26, 2002	Florian Wireless Connects with Western NY for 350-Employee Ultra-Wideband Plant
August 19, 2002	GM Doling Out $500M to Build New Model in North Ohio; Labor Cooperation Key
August 12, 2002	Target Does Topeka: $80M, 650-Job Distribution Center Clicks Heels in Kansas
August 5, 2002	American LaFrance Relocates to South Carolina, Projects 800 Employees at New Site
July 29, 2002	Raytheon Aircraft Lands in Little Rock, 350 New Jobs Aboard
July 22, 2002	Upstate New York Gets Nod for Sematech's $403M R&D Center
July 15, 2002	Car Wars: Honda's $450M Alabama Expansion Will Create 2,000 New Jobs
July 8, 2002	Northward-Bound Bechtel Will Spur Creation of 1,200 New Jobs in Quebec
June 24, 2002	Household International Adding Another 520 Jobs in Tampa
June 17, 2002	Michigan Hooks Another Big One: Nissan Announces $38.8 Million R&D Expansion
June 10, 2002	A Big Bloomin' Save in Pecos, Texas
June 3, 2002	Cadence Design Systems Bringing 300 Jobs to Salt Lake City
May 27, 2002	Target Picks Virginia for $65M East Coast Import Distribution Center
May 20, 2002	$250M, 400 Jobs for Starters: Novartis Moving Worldwide Research Headquarters to Boston Area
May 13, 2002	Firm's First U.S. Plant Outside Indiana: Lilly Picks Northern Virginia for $435M, 700-Job Insulin Plant
April 29, 2002	Denmark's Vestas Blowing into Portland, Ore., Bringing 1,200 Jobs
April 22, 2002	Northern Iowa Bags Winnebago's 300-Employee Plant
April 15, 2002	DNA Manufacturer IDT Announces $52M, 200-Employee Iowa Expansion
April 8, 2002	Siemens Plugs Regional Telecom HQ into Dubai Internet City
April 1, 2002	Hyundai's $1B Plant Alabama Bound After 11th-Hour Bargaining
March 25, 2002	Complex Edifice: Trump, Partners Sell Empire State Building
March 18, 2002	Growth Flu: Baxter's Two New Vaccine Plants Creating 500 High-End Jobs
March 11, 2002	AdvancePCS Picks Knoxville, Tenn., for 400-Employee Call Center
March 4, 2002	How Swede It Is: IKEA's Two Baltimore Facilities Adding 580 Jobs
February 25, 2002	Location, Incentives, Teamwork Bring $40M Dollar Tree Dist. Center to Marietta, Okla.
February 18, 2002	AMD, UMC Creating 300-MM Joint-Venture Fab in Singapore
February 11, 2002	Japan's Tokai Rika Building $83 Million, 400-Worker Czech Plant
January 28, 2002	CitiMortgage, Magellan Expansions Adding 2,000 Jobs in St. Louis Metro
January 21, 2002	Network Associates Building 1,100-Employee Dallas-Area Regional Office
January 14, 2002	BAE Systems Adding 1,000 Virginia Employees in $51.6 Million Expansion
January 7, 2002	Two New Projects Will Add 800 Jobs in Oklahoma City of 14,500

December 31, 2001	Small Cars, Big Czech: Peugeot Citroen/Toyota JV Picks Kolin for 2,000-Worker Plant
December 17, 2001	Six Nissan Suppliers Investing $110 Million, Creating 1,000 Mississippi Jobs
December 10, 2001	Michigan's RX Prompts Pfizer's $600 Million, 600-Employee Expansion
December 3, 2001	LG Chem Will Open $500 Million EDC Plant in Queensland
November 26, 2001	Sony To Open First Japanese PC Plant in China
November 19, 2001	Siemens' Tale of Two Cities: Orlando, Pittsburgh and 1,100 Jobs
November 12, 2001	Dallas Lands Kinko's 500-Employee Headquarters Relocation
November 5, 2001	Expansion within a Layoff: Hitachi's 660-Employee Plant Headed for China
October 29, 2001	AFFINA Selects Suffolk, Virginia for Call Center
October 8, 2001	600-Worker Wal-Mart Center Could Hold Steubenville, Ohio's Entire CBD
September 17, 2001	Terrorist Aftermath Creates Huge Challenges, Questions for New York Market
September 3, 2001	Mitsubishi Taps Orlando for HQ, Manufacturing/ Service Center
August 27, 2001	Incentives Help Michigan Land French Firm's First North American Plant
August 20, 2001	Cedar Falls, Iowa, Lands Target's 900-Employee Distribution Center
August 13, 2001	Eight Supplier Facilities Will Cluster Near Nissan's Mississippi Plant
August 6, 2001	Nestle Picks Northeast Arkansas for $165 Million, 1,000-Employee Plant
July 30, 2001	Ford Adding $375 Million Expansion at Norfolk Assembly Plant
July 23, 2001	BMW Picks East German Site for $860 Million, 5,500-Employee Plant
July 16, 2001	Despite Downturn, Intel Will Build $2 Billion Oregon Fab
June 25, 2001	$220 Million, 300-Worker Queensland Coalmine Will Tap One of World's Richest Lodes
June 18, 2001	Sysco Picks Las Vegas for 600-Employee Distribution Center, New Operating Arm
June 11, 2001	Symantec Picks Virginia Peninsula for East Coast Product Development Center
June 4, 2001	Citibank's 2,000-Employee Expansion Will Almost Triple Northern Kentucky Work Force
May 28, 2001	ZeTek's Pennsylvania Fuel Cell Plant Will Create 330 Jobs
May 21, 2001	Biogen picks Danish Site in 'Medicon Valley' for First International Plant
May 14, 2001	Lilly's $250 Million Biotech Plant Pick-Me-Up for Puerto Rican 'Revolution'
May 7, 2001	Dal-Tile's 270-Employee Plant Will Be New Corporate Okie from Muskogee
April 30, 2001	Philips Semiconductor to Build $1 Billion Plant in Eastern China
March 26, 2001	Illinois Mfg./Dist. Facility Krispy Kreme's First Outside Carolina
March 19, 2001	Wyoming Landing Lowe's Regional Center 'Like Catching Hail Mary Super Bowl Pass,' Official Says
March 12, 2001	500-Employee R&D Expansion in Dublin Will Boost Xilinx Work Force by 20 Percent
March 5, 2001	$110 Million Plastics Plant Continues Bayer's Shift toward Shanghai
February 26, 2001	Celestica Adds 1,375 Arkansas, Colorado Workers in $4 Billion OM Deal with Avaya
February 19, 2001	$2.8 Billion, 2,500-Worker Mill Could Revive Australia's Ailing 'Steel City'
February 12, 2001	ABM AMRO to Build $500 Million, 5,000-Employee Tower in Chicago's West Loop
February 5, 2001	To Euro or Not to Euro: Nissan Picks UK Site for $300 Million Expansion
January 29, 2001	Internet-Enabled Speed Puts WorldCom's 13 Facilities Online in Only Nine Months
January 22, 2001	Meaningful Commitment: HSBC Pledges to Keep 4,000 Jobs in Western NY for 15 Years
January 8, 2001	$280 Million, 2,200-Job Complex: Is It Heaven, Iowa or a Rainforest?
January 1, 2001	Hot Optical-Switching Startup Trellis Adding 650 Jobs in Maryland, Israel

December 18, 2000	Museum Piece: $800 Million Guggenheim Expansion Will Create 2,550 New NYC Jobs
December 11, 2000	$450 Million Expansion Takes Corning's Tar Heel Investment Tally to $1 Billion for 2000
December 4, 2000	Staples' European HQ in Brussels Part of 900-Employee Belgian Expansion
November 27, 2000	Northern Virginia Lands $1.4 Billion Data Center Billed as 'Nation's Largest'
November 13, 2000	Nissan Driving $950 Million, 4,000-Employee Plant to Mississippi Delta
October 30, 2000	Capital One's 8,000-Employee Expansion Sets New Record in Old Dominion
October 23, 2000	Delta Hits for Power in NYC: $1.6 billion JFK Project Creating 6,000 Jobs
October 16, 2000	Lear Puts Expansion Pedal to the Medal: New Plant, Three 'Technology Centers' Adding 1,000 European Jobs
October 9, 2000	A Dynamite Groundbreaking: Alteon WebSystems Blasts Open 1,000-Employee Silicon Valley Site
October 2, 2000	Semiconductor Surge Spurring Mitel to Add 400 Engineers in Ottawa
September 25, 2000	Motorola Will Reportedly Build 5,500-Employee Campus in Suburban Atlanta
September 18, 2000	Shell's $4.3 Billion JV Will Be China's Biggest Foreign Investment
September 11, 2000	1,000-Employee, $150 Million Expansion Puts Cisco's Passage to India in High Gear
September 4, 2000	BellSouth Picks Clay County, Fla., for 1,000-Employee, $35 Million Customer Service Center
August 28, 2000	DaimlerChrysler Investing $600 Million in 2,000-Worker Alabama Project, But Is It New or Expanded?
August 21, 2000	Embraer to Build 3,000-Employee, $150 Million Brazilian Plant
August 14, 2000	BellSouth's New Miami Access Point Will Ease Internet Clog
August 7, 2000	IG2's 500-Employee Mid-Atlantic Center Headed for Richmond
July 31, 2000	Virtual Integration: Putnam Investments Creating 100 New Virtual Jobs in Rural Maine, 100 More on College Campus
July 24, 2000	A Relocation That Wasn't: Northrop Grumman's 400-Worker HQ Staying in Dallas
July 17, 2000	Turner Tunes in Growth Channel: $1.2 Billion Investment Will Add 3,800 Atlanta Jobs
July 10, 2000	New Zealand Dairy Board Building $50 Million Plant, Milking EU for More Business
July 3, 2000	New Louisiana-Pacific/Slocan JV Will Build 500-Employee Plant in British Columbia
June 26, 2000	Toysrus.com's Doubling of Work Force Underscores Clicks-and-Mortar Model
June 19, 2000	Bombardier Makes Big Landing in Northern Ireland with 1,200-Worker Belfast Expansion
June 5, 2000	Opto-Omnivorousness: Lucent Adding 2,500 Worldwide Jobs, Cisco May Add 12,000 in RTP
May 29, 2000	Intel's $2 Billion Project in New Mexico Only 29% of Annual Expansion Budget
May 22, 2000	$755 Million Toshiba-SanDisk Deal Creating 600 New Virginia Jobs
May 15, 2000	Fujitsu Restarts Oregon Expansion Engines with $550 Million Fab
May 8, 2000	$2 Billion Scottish Facility Will Be Motorola's Largest European Chip Plant
April 24, 2000	Roll the Presses: Quebecor Shuffles Off to Buffalo with 400-Job Expansion
April 17, 2000	New $100 Million California Plant Part of Baxter's $400 Million Global Biotech Push
April 10, 2000	Boehringer, Tower Automotive Expansions in Virginia Top $100 Million
April 3, 2000	Go West, Young Motown? Irvine Lands Ford's PAG HQ
March 27, 2000	Online 'E-Tailer' IMotors Opening 900-Worker Cincinnati Center
March 20, 2000	Hot Taiwanese Competition Spurs OSE's $200 Million Expansion
March 13, 2000	Sysco Serving Up 650-Employee Center in Suffolk, Va.
March 6, 2000	Virgin Goes Down Under: Queensland Lands 750-Employee HQ
February 28, 2000	Intel's $3.5 Billion in Fabs Creating 2,000 Jobs in Arizona and Colorado
February 21, 2000	Shanghai Beats Out Hong Kong for Alcatel's Asian HQ
February 14, 2000	DHL Airways Flies Coop, Relocates HQ in San Francisco
February 7, 2000	Farmers Insurance 'Seamless Service' Center Bringing 500 Jobs to Kansas
January 31, 2000	Proving Risk Profitable, Providian Opening 600-Employee Austin Center
January 24, 2000	Oh, Cisco (Systems)! New Boston Campus Will House 5,000 Employees
January 17, 2000	Beetlemania Writ Large: Volkswagen Investing $1 Billion at Mexican Site
January 3, 2000	Buckeye's $100 Million North Carolina Plant to Feature Industry Benchmark Technologies

December 20, 1999	New 300-Employee R&D Center in France Reflects Lucent's Changing Focus
December 13, 1999	$110 Million Brazil Plant Part of DuPont's 20 Percent Stretch of Lycra Capacity
December 6, 1999	$150 Million Griffin Wheel Plant Rolling into Tulsa
November 29, 1999	$85 Million Quantex Expansion Will Add 1,000 UK Jobs
November 15, 1999	Dell Goes for La Vida Loca: New, $108 Million Plant Headed for Brazil
November 8, 1999	New $130 Million Server Farm in Virginia Part of Intel's $1 Billion Drive into ISP Market
November 1, 1999	Border Crossing: New York-Based ISO Relocating 1,400-Employee HQ in New Jersey
October 25, 1999	500-Employee, $100 Million R&D Center in Turin, Italy, Continues Motorola's Value-Added Push
October 11, 1999	Old-Fashioned Family Dollar Keeps Growth Surge Going with 500-Employee Kentucky Facility
October 4, 1999	Yes, Virginia, Nextel Says: New 700-Employee Operation Headed for Hampton
September 27, 1999	Michelin's $400 Million Multi-Location Expansion to Create 400 South Carolina Jobs
September 20, 1999	Media Converge in Hong Kong: Time Warner's New 12-Floor Asian HQ
September 13, 1999	Barnes & Noble's New Giant in Memphis Latest Salvo in B&N-Amazon's War of the Warehouses
September 6, 1999	Sinking or Swimming? Ingalls Signs $1.4 Billion AMCV Deal, but U.S. Shipbuilding Still Listing

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