Area Rankings
1990 Metro Hot Spots for New Facilities: Dallas/Fort Worth, Atlanta and Los Angeles by Deborah S. Fusi from Site Selection, February 1991.
Summary of Top 10 Metro Areas 1990 for new manufacturing as well as new plants and expansions.
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1990's Top Groups and Tod Deals: Adding Value from the Development Side by Deborah S. Fusi, Tim Venable and Jack Lyne from Site Selection, April 1991.
These 10 outstanding development groups and 10 outstanding deals added value to the tune of some 110,000 new jobs last year.
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1991's Top Groups and Top Deals: With Competition Intensified, a Winning Hand Was All in the Numbers by Hoyt E. Coffee, Tim Venable and Jack Lyne from Site Selection, April 1992.
These 10 development groups and 10 development deals totaled some big-ticket numbers in an intensely competitive year.
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20 Success Stories from the Development World: 1989's Top Groups and Top Deals by Jack Lyne and Deborah S. Fusi from Site Selection, April 1990.
Presented are 10 of the development groups and 10 deals which helped make 1989 another record-breaking year for corporate real estate activity.
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Area Report Cards Reveal Educational Improvements Enhancing Quality of Life and the Work Force by Deborah S. Fusi from Site Selection, August 1990.
Companies look to local classrooms to enhance the quality-of-life as well as the skills of their work forces.
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Atlanta, Austin, Minneapolis/St. Paul and Seattle voted Best in Quality of Life by Tim Venable from Site Selection, August 1991.
Through wide-ranging educational improvements, states and local communities are working hard to elevate their quality-of-life and meet changing workforce needs.
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Business Climate Rankings: What Do They Really Mean? by Tim Venable from Site Selection, October 1994.
Our annual guide to ranking the business climate rankings.
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Business Park Financial Picture Still Favors Site Seekers by Hoyt E. Coffee from Site Selection, December 1992.
Economic recovery is boosting business park performance, but there are still bargains available.
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Business Park Success Stories: Site Selection Superlatives by Tim Venable from Site Selection, December 1992.
Which parks racked up the most new jobs last year? Where are the biggest parks with the most employees? Read it here.
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Business Park Success Stories Site Selection's 1994 Superlatives by Audrey Pennington from Site Selection, December 1994.
Fueled by increasingly robust economic growth, these 10 business parks excelled in a critical yardstick of park success: landing new corporate facilities and jobs.
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Business Parks Go High Tech with Advanced Telecommunications Infrastructure by Tim Venable from Site Selection, December 1991.
Many business parks are adding an array of high-tech features to meet the information-age needs of corporate tenants. At the same time, the list of tenant-attracting amenities continues to mount, but park expansion plans are decidedly scaled down.
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Business Rankings: Can You Tell the Players Without a Program? by Hoyt E. Coffee from Site Selection, August 1992.
Rankings of the best places to locate facilities are many things to many people.
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Corporate Real Estate 1991: The Year of Living Modestly by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, February 1992.
Executives predict smaller staffs, increased out-sourcing and only slight increases in occupied space.
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Dallas Wins Again: Still the Hottest U.S. Metro Area for Corporate Facilities by Tim Venable from Site Selection, February 1995.
1994 marked the sixth consecutive year that Dallas, Texas, ranked No. 1 among U.S. metro areas in Site Selection's annual tally of corporate facilities.
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Education Continues to Score High As A Quality-of-Life Location Equation by Deborah S. Fusi from Site Selection, August 1991.
Through wide-ranging educational improvements, state and local communities are working hard to elevate their quality of life and meet changing workforce needs.
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Finding the Right Work Force: Critical Work for Site Seekers by Tim Venable from Site Selection, August 1992.
Labor availability, productivity and educational levels increasingly are having the final say on where corporate facilities locate.
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Florida, North Carolina and Texas: 1991's Leaders in the Chase for New Facilities by Tim Venable from Site Selection, February 1992.
The sunshine state topped the overall tally for the fourth consecutive year, but North Carolina jumped into the No. 1 slot for new manufacturing activity. Also includes a look at '91's hottest metros and Site Selection's inaugural New Facilities Index.
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Food Products Still No. 1, Transportation Tumbles in '91 Tally of U.S. Manufacturing Facilities by Hoyt E. Coffee from Site Selection, February 1992.
Bigger proved to be better amid last year's recessionary economy.
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Food Products Supplants Transportation Equipment in Tally of New Facilities by Tim Venable from Site Selection, February 1991.
Transportation facilities slipped into third place
in our annual tally of new and expanded
manufacturing plants, but don't underestimate
their impact: Transportation facilities on average
were the largest, created the most jobs and came
in second only to food prducts.
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Hottest Metro Areas for Facility Investments in 1991: Dallas, Charlotte and Atlanta by Tim Venable from Site Selection, February 1992.
A look at the top five metro areas of new facilities and investments.
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Incentives Are Important, Executives Say, but Business Concerns Drive the Location Process by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, April 1992.
Incentives can be a deciding factor, but basic bottom-line issues are primary in locations.
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Industry Superstars Rack Up Sizable Stats by Audrey Pennington from Site Selection, February 1996.
The top 20 facilities for 1995 in terms of investmetn, employees and space.
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Labor Force, Education Rated Top Future Development Factors from Site Selection, April 1991.
Labor Force and Education are the most critical issues that will impact the work of corporate real estate and economic development officials in the years ahead.
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Mead Corp. Voted Top Corporate Real Estate Shop by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, February 1990.
Who Are The Top Corporate Real Estate Departments? (a vote by Site Selection readers).
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Non-U.S. Facilities Top List of 1989's Largest Capital Investments by Tim Venable from Site Selection, February 1990.
1989's Top 10 U.S. Facilities identified by investment, employment and square footage of floor area.
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North Carolina, South Carolina and Ohio Tops in Landing Global Facilities for 1989-1991 by Tim Venable from Site Selection, February 1992.
Here's who's winning the competition to land new and expanded global corporate facilities.
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Ohio Speeds Ahead to Win '94 U.S. Facility-Location Race by Tim Venable from Site Selection, February 1995.
For the second year in a row, Ohio handily won the No. 1 spot in Site Selection's annual tally of new and expanded corporate facilities in the USA.
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Putting Together the Quality-of-Life Puzzle: Seattle, Atlanta and Chicago Voted Best by Deborah S. Fusi from Site Selection, August 1990.
These cities offer a unique blend of the many pieces of the quality-of-life puzzle, and the combination obviously appeals to corporations locating new facilities.
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Real Estate Executives Plugging In to Park Telecommunications, Capitalizing on Concessions by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, December 1991.
Information-age executives are adding state-of-the-art communications to their business-park site selection criteria along with concessions.
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Science Parks Continue Global Expansion by Tim Venable from Site Selection, June 1992.
They're called many different names, but science parks continue to proliferate.
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Science Parks Pave the Way For Corporate High-Tech Locations by Deborah S. Fusi from Site Selection, June 1990.
Science parks promise to be a significant site-selection factor for R&D and high-tech facilities into the 21st century.
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Service Taxes, International Site Selection and the `Green' Movement Dominate Executives' Political Focus by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, October 1990.
A look at the major geo-political factors affecting modern facility-location decisions.
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Site Selection Rates the QOL and Business-Climate Rankings by Deborah S. Fusi from Site Selection, August 1991.
There's now a veritable cornucopia of quality-of-life and business-climate rankings. But what are they really telling us?
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Site Selection's '89 Scoreboard Posts Record Number of New Facilities by Deborah S. Fusi from Site Selection, February 1990.
The South Atlantic region and Florida rang up the most new facilities and expansions on the scoreboard for 1989 as well as over the long haul (1987-1989).
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Site Selection's 1990 Business Park Superlatives: Leaders in Occupancy, Size and Employment by Tim Venable from Site Selection, December 1990.
Profiles the top 10 business parks in new space occupied over the past year.
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Site Selection's 1991 Business Park Superlatives: Leaders in Occupancy, Size and Employment by Tim Venable from Site Selection, December 1991.
Here are the biggest of the big boys from Site Selection's survey, including perhaps the most telling measure of park success - the amount of new space leased and sold to corporate tenants.
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Site Selection's 1994 Top Groups: The Best of Development by Tim Venable from Site Selection, April 1995.
From experienced staff and keen attention to detail to comprehensive information resources and strong local business support, Site Selection's 1994 top development groups have the attributes that corporate site seekers prize.
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South Atlantic Dominates Regions, North Carolina Tops States in R&D by Hoyt E. Coffee from Site Selection, June 1992.
The southward migration of R&D facilities continued apace during 1990-91.
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South Atlantic Region Strengthens Leadership Position in 1989 R&D Facility Locations by Tim Venable from Site Selection, June 1990.
The South Atlantic region landed the most new R&D facilities in 1989 and repeated as the leader among U.S. regions in number of overall R&D facilities.
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South Atlantic, East North Central Regions Land Most New R&D Facilities for '89-'90 by Tim Venable from Site Selection, June 1991.
California, New York, Detroit and Dallas are some of the big winners in a two-year analysis of major new and expanded R&D operations.
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South Atlantic, Florida Top Both 1990 and 1988-1990 Analysis of New Facilities Surge by Deborah Fusi from Site Selection, February 1991.
The South Atlantic region, Florida and Dallas/Fort Worth continued their dominance last year in landing new facilities and expansions.
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Stock Shoots Up for U.S. Midwest, Emerging Nations in '94 Business Climate Rankings by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, October 1994.
The Sunbelt still rules in the U.S. rankings, butthe Midwest miracle" also shines through. Rising upstarts like Mexico and China nip at the old guard's heels in SS's global rankings."
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Today's Development Groups: A Wealth of Location Assistance for Corporate Site-Seekers by Tim Venable from Site Selection, April 1991.
From new programs and services to increased computerization to detailed research studies, development groups are beefing up their site-selection assistance.
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U.S. Work Force Woes Limiting Many Corporate Facility Location Choices by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, August 1991.
Regional work-force deficiencies elevate the importance of quality-of-life factors in site selection.
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Utilities Adjust to the 1990s: Put New Emphasis on Existing Business by Hoyt E. Coffee from Site Selection, August 1992.
Utility economic development departments are devoting more resources to retaining business.
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What's Behind the "Best" Business Climates -- Reality or Rankings from Site Selection, October 1995.
A comparison of a variety of best lists and top ten rankings.
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Working with Corporate Prospects: Development Executives Speak Out from Site Selection, April 1992.
Economic developers discuss the most important services for site seekers.
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