May 2006

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

MAY 2006 Good Things Happen in Pairs (cover) Quick Curves Austin Waits and Wins Leverage, But in Which Direction? Global Families Check the Style Manual Give Us Your Opinion! NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS     Good Things Happen in Pairs Two Korean multinationals engage with the U.S. in a big way, just as their nation’s government prepares […]

From Site Selection magazine, May 2006 WORLD REPORTS Energy City is Qatar’s Latest Leap Forward by John W. McCurry john.mccurry bounce@conway.com Esam Janahi, chairman of Gulf Energy and Energy City Qatar, center, wearing the red headdress, discusses a model of Energy City Qatar with, to his immediate right, Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Qatar’s prime […]

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

MAY 2006 The Whole Package (cover) How to Compete High Tech, High Touch Industrial Transition Give Us Your Opinion! COMPETITIVENESS AWARD     The Whole Package North Carolina’s claim to the 2005 Competitiveness Award is backed by investments in the right people, the right technology and a commitment to industries old and new. by MARK AREND […]

MAY 2006 Removing Real Estate from the Books Can Add to the Bottom Line (cover) Capital Lease Funding Expansion at Lexington Corporate Properties Trust Net Lease Capital Advisors Branches Out U.S. Realty Advisors’ Flexibility Big Increases at Capital Lease Funding Request Information SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTIONSALE/LEASEBACK TRANSACTIONS   Removing Real Estate from the Books Can Add to […]

MAY 2006 How Good is Your Outsourcing Deal? (cover) SkySong, the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center USAA Real Estate Company South Mississippi Seizing the Opportunity Harrison County Development Commission Memphis Delivers The Right Location for Business Memphis Delivers Opelika, Alabama Logistically Suited For Continued Growth Fast-Growing Myrtle Beach Looks to Build on People Power Relocation Triggers Search […]

MAY 2006 ‘Shovel-Ready’ Saves Time, Money (cover) Barilla America to Open Pasta- Manufacturing Facility Empire State Development Kentucky’s Shovel- Ready Sites Are Just a Click Away Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development “Perfect Location” for Your Business and for Your Family Buttonwood Gateway Berks Economic Partnership ShovelReady Oklahoma’s MidAmerica Takes Shovel- Ready Sites to the Next Level […]

layton Crawford, director of facility management and services for McKesson Corp., oversees a vast portfolio of 300 active properties encompassing some 16 million sq. ft. (1.5 million sq. m.) That’s a lot of real estate to maintain and a lot of work orders to track. For the past three years, McKesson has used Trammell Crow […]

MAY 2006 Here and Abroad (cover) Top North American Deals of 2005 North American Honorable Mention Top International Deals of 2005 International Honorable Mention Class By Themselves Give Us Your Opinion! TOP DEALS OF 2005       Here and Abroad   The Top Deals of 2005 show that the climate for global corporate investment is […]

eflecting a U.S. economy that has averaged 4 percent GDP growth for each of the last 10 quarters, this year’s Top Economic Development Groups represent virtually every major region of the country.    While the South continues to dominate Site Selection‘s annual rankings of top groups based upon actual economic performance — with six of the […]