For the second year in a row, Area Development has conducted a survey of a select group of highly respected location consultants who work with a nationwide client base. We asked the consultants to name their top-5 state choices in 12 site selection categories.
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Michael Turner, CEO and Forensic Architect, Cognitio Consulting (Fall 2011)
Although applying green technology is important to a building's sustainability, components must be correctly designed and installed in order to maximize performance and building economy.
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Mark Crawford, Staff Editor, Area Development (Fall 2011)
Through regional collaboration, cities/communities are leveraging their transportation, business, and cultural strengths, providing an advantage to companies that choose to locate in their regions, while helping grow their economies.
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Bill Knotts, Senior Managing Director, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. (Fall 2011)
When it comes to real estate strategy and implementation, the CIO's role has become indelible and has fostered a new level of partnership with commercial real estate service providers.
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Patrick O. Gottschalk, Chair, Economic Development Team, Williams Mullen (Fall 2011)
Utilizing the resources of nearby universities will help a company to engage in R&D, acquire best practices for business, and enhance work force development and recruitment.
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Richard A. Bendis, President and CEO, Innovation America (Fall 2011)
With high unemployment rates and the critical need for job creation, performance indicators for economic development activity are needed now more than ever.
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Geraldine Gambale, Editor, Area Development Magazine (Fall 2011)
The end of summer brought bad weather - an earthquake rumbling Georgia to Maine and Hurricane Irene flooding areas all along the Atlantic Seaboard. When it comes to economic news, the nation was similarly assaulted.
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Joe Langan, President and CEO, Langan Energy Solutions (Fall 2011)
Office buildings consume an enormous portion of our national energy production, impacting both the environment and company pocketbooks. It is time that office-building owners begin to explore solar system options.
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DR has clearly emerged as an early example of "smart grid" enabling technology, empowering electricity users to reduce consumption - and get paid - for responding to grid emergencies or market-price events.
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John Carver, Executive Vice President, Ports Airports and Global Infastructure Group, Jones Lang LaSalle (Fall 2011)
With its proximity not only to the east/west all-water route from Asia via the Panama Canal, but also its strategic position as the U.S. gateway to north/south trade with the emerging economies of Central and South America, Florida is fast-becoming a logistics hub.
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Michael Alt, Director, Eastman Business Park (Fall 2011)
The consortium, known as the Innovation and Materials Science Institute, includes organizations across a range of disciplines to help middle-stage technology companies fast-track new products to market.
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While the U.S. industrial giant General Electric and foreign firms like Vestas, Siemens, and others dominate production of the large wind turbines used on massive wind farms, small and mid-sized companies across the United States are manufacturing smaller wind turbines designed for use at the top of office towers and in facilities such as airports and shopping malls.
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Steve Kaelble, Staff Editor, Area Development (Fall 2011)
Sound decision-making by Canadian banks and businesses has resulted in the nation's weathering the global economic downturn better than most and putting it in a position to grow more rapidly.
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