Site Selection Case Studies
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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40 Years of Facility Site Selection: You've Come a Long Way, Baby by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, December 1994.
Once a secrecy-shrouded process, site selection has evolved into a fine, research-fueled art. IDRC paved the way for progress.
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Alaska Airlines Eyes Western States for New 2,000-Employee Maintenance Facility by Tim Venable from Site Selection, April 1992.
Alaska Airlines narrows its search for an airline maintenance facility to five cities.
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BMW Drives into South Carolina with $300 Million Auto Plant by Tim Venable from Site Selection, August 1992.
BMW chooses Greenville-Spartanburg for its 900-acre, 1.9 million sq.ft. plant.
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Creative Financing Lands $125 Million Swearingen Aircraft Plant in West Virginia by Tim Venable from Site Selection, December 1992.
Swearingen Aircraft announces plans to locate a $125 million assembly plant in Martinsburg to produce the SJ30 business jet.
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Georgia Mows Down Competition, Lands 800-Employee Briggs & Stratton Plant by Linda Liston and Tim Venable from Site Selection, December 1994.
Statesboro, Ga., wins a seven-state site search for Briggs & Stratton's new $75 million manufacturing plant.
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It's Atlanta for UPS, Holiday Inn by Linda L. Liston from Site Selection, June 1991.
Two corporate giants select Atlanta for their headquarters.
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Jacksonville Scores Again with 600-Employee Merrill Lynch Eastern Regional Operations Center by Linda L. Liston from Site Selection, April 1991.
Merrill Lynch builds a 160,000-sq.-ft. plant in Jacksonville based on the quality of life and transportation systems.
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Nine Cities Vie for $1.7 Billion McDonnell Douglas Plant by Tim Venable from Site Selection, December 1991.
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Peden & Associates' Katherine Peden: A Woman Who Opened Closed Doors by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, April 1992.
The long list of firsts linked with Peden's name includes being the first female commerce commissioner, the first woman nominated for the U.S. Senate and the only woman on the Kerner Commission.
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Samsung Selects Texas's Hugh-Tech Capital For $1.3 Billion Semiconductor Plant by Tim Venable from Site Selection, April 1996.
Samsung selected Austin after an exhaustive year-long site search.
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Sears Chooses Pennsylvania for Huge Distribution Facility by Tim Venable from Site Selection, October 1991.
Sears will build a $42 million, 1 million-sq.-ft. facility in Hanover Twp. based on the fact that Wilkes-Barre is an ideal transportation hub for Sears to the Northeast.
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Site Selection's 1994 Top Groups: Gobs of Global Jobs by Audrey Pennington from Site Selection, April 1995.
1994's top 10 development projects reflect a roaring global economy, creating an average of 1,525 new jobs -- nearly doubling 1993 levels.
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Speed, Growth Drive Intel's Pick of Arizona for US$1.3 Billion Plant by Jack Lyne and Tim Venable from Site Selection, December 1994.
Expansion is booming at red-hot Intel, with some $7 billion invested over the past five years. Speed was essential in the recent selection of Chandler, Ariz., as the site of the company's $1.3 billion semiconductor plant.
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Steelcase CEO Jerry Myers: Creating the Office of the Future -- Now by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, October 1992.
Myers discusses the changing nature of the corporate office and officer.
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The Inside Story: MCC Steers $477 Million "Swatchmobile" Facility into Northeast France by Claire Corter, and Marc Lhermitte, N. America Lorraine Dev. Corp. from Site Selection, April 1995.
A unique joint venture between the makers of Mercedes-Benz autos and Swatch watches, the MCC project touched off a hotly contested Europe-wide site search.
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UTC's Ken Rankin: Centralized Real Estate in a Decentralized Corporate Culture by Jack Lyne from Site Selection, December 1991.
As he readies to enter retirement, Rankin recounts how he centralized the United Technologies real estate function.
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United Airlines' 10,000-Employee Facility May Be Touching Down in Denver by Linda L. Liston from Site Selection, August 1991.
The final decision for United Airlines' maintenance operations centers rests, among other items, on the constitutionality of a $400 million package of tax incentives.
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