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Area Development - Site Selection, Facility Planning and Workforce Development

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AD Editorial Board
- Aaron Ahlburn
  
  Managing Director and Senior Director, Research, JLL
- Amy Gerber
  
  Executive Managing Director, Business Incentives Practice, Cushman & Wakefield
- Bill Luttrell
  
  Director of Corporate Real Estate, Werner Enterprises, Inc.
- Bradley Migdal
  
  Senior Managing Director, Business Incentives Practice, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
- Brian Corde
  
  Managing Partner, Atlas Insight
- Dan Levine
  
  Practice Leader, Location Strategies and Economic Development, Oxford Economics, Inc.
- Dan White
  
  Senior Economist, Moody's Analytics
- Dennis Cuneo
  
  Partner , Fisher & Phillips
- Eric Stavriotis
  
  Senior Vice President, Advisory & Transaction Services, CBRE, Inc.
- H. Robert Boehringer, III
  
  Managing Director, Global Location & Expansion Services, KPMG
- Josh Bays
  
  Principal, Site Selection Group, LLC
- Joshua Wright
  
  VP, Economic and Workforce Development, Emsi
- Kate Crowley
  
  Principal & Negotiated Incentives Practice Leader, Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP
- Les Cranmer
  
  Senior Managing Director, Savills Studley
- Marc Beauchamp
  
  President & CEO, The CAI Global Group
- Margy Sweeney
  
  Founder and CEO, Akrete, Inc.
- Minah Hall
  
  Managing Director, True Partners Consulting LLC
- Paul Naumoff
  
  Principal, National Director of Tax Credits & Incentives Advisory Services, EY Global/Americas
- Scott Kupperman
  
  Founder, Kupperman Location Solutions
- Stephen Gray
  
  CEO, Gray Construction

Winter 2011

COVER STORY

25th Annual Corporate Survey & 7th Annual Consultants Survey Complete Results

Area Development Special Presentation (Winter 2011)

The economy's gradual recovery during 2010 has resulted in increased business optimism, a rise in new facility plans, and some changes in site selection priorities. More

FEATURES

Energy/Sustainable Development >>

Energy Management Demand Response Difficult to Implement

Michael Zimmerman, CEO, Building IQ (Winter 2011)

Although Demand Response systems can help commercial building owners monitor and manage energy demand, these programs have proven difficult to implement. More

Industry Clusters Evolving Role in Location Decisions

Christopher Steele, Global COO and North American President, Investment Consulting Associates (ICA) (Winter 2011)

As physical location becomes less important in a technologically-advanced, globalized work place, how will industry clusters adapt? More

Asset / Facility Management >>

Energy Management Strategies That Can Save Facilities Thousands

Joseph Falci, Senior Director, Rate Analysis & Energy Procurement, Advantage IQ (Winter 2011)

In today's tough economic times, companies considering operational innovations can reduce their uncertainty with a solid energy risk management strategy. More

Local Knowledge Key Asset in Location Decisions

Tim Feemster, Managing Principal, Foremost Quality Logistics (Winter 2011)

The ideas of local leaders who handle the day-to-day management of operations can be successfully applied by corporate leadership to the rest of the company. More

Business Globalization / Next Shoring >>

Assessing Emerging Markets for Cross-Border Location Strategies

Matt Jackson, Managing Director, JLL (Winter 2011)

Conducting an accurate financial assessment of emerging markets for global manufacturing means the difference between project success and failure. More

The CFO's Role in the Site Selection Process

Christopher D. Lloyd, Senior Vice President and Director, Infrastructure and Economic Development, McGuireWoods Consulting (Winter 2011)

In today's tough fiscal environment, those involved in making the location decision often defer to the company's CFO. More

Asset / Facility Management >>

The New Lease Accounting Paradigm

Vivian Mumaw, Global Leader, Lease Administration, Jones Lang LaSalle (Winter 2011)

New lease accounting rules will revise how all businesses account for property. Here's how to best prepare for the changes. More

DEPARTMENTS

First Person: Missouri Offers Business Sustainable Energy Incentives

Christopher Chung, CEO, The Missouri Partnership (Winter 2011)

Missouri is attracting business with sustainable power policies like the recently enacted Renewable Energy Standard (RES). More

Asset / Facility Management >>

In Focus: Turning Leased Industrial Facilities into Profits

George Livingston, Founder and Chairman, NAI Realvest (Winter 2011)

Businesses can use leased commercial properties to take advantage of rent concessions and generate profits before the commercial real estate sector makes its strongest recovery. More

Editor's Note: Survey Reflects Manufacturing's "New Normal"

Geraldine Gambale, Editor, Area Development Magazine (Winter 2011)

An MPI Group survey, as well as Area Development's own Corporate and Consultants Surveys, show an increased emphasis on supply chain could spell a "new normal" for industry and manufacturing. More

FRONT LINE

New York >>

NY BioHud Valley: Branding the Next Biotech Hotspot

Area Development Research Desk (Winter 2011)

New York's Hudson Valley Economic Development Corporation (HVEDC) is pushing its biotech and pharmaceutical cluster as the next industry hotspot. More