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Area Development - Site Selection, Facility Planning and Workforce Development

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AD Editorial Board
- Amy Gerber
  
  Executive Managing Director, Business Incentives Practice, Cushman & Wakefield
- Anthony Johnson
  
  President, Industrial Business Unit, Clayco
- 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
  
  Director, Government Consulting and Fiscal Policy Research, Moody's Analytics
- Dennis Cuneo
  
  Owner, DC Strategic Advisors LLC
- Eric Stavriotis
  
  Executive Vice President, Advisory & Transaction Services, CBRE
- 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, Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP
- Les Cranmer
  
  Senior Managing Director, Savills
- Marc Beauchamp
  
  President & CEO, CAI Global
- Margy Sweeney
  
  Founder and CEO, Akrete, Inc.
- Michael Kruklinski
  
  Head of Real Estate , Siemens Energy and Siemens USA
- Minah Hall
  
  Managing Director, Compass Key Site Solutions
- Paul Naumoff
  
  Principal, National Director of Tax Credits & Incentives Advisory Services, EY Global/Americas
- Scott Kupperman
  
  Founder, Kupperman Location Solutions
- Stephen Gray
  
  President & CEO, Gray, Inc.

Q1 2016

Cover Story

Infrastructure Innovations Will Drive Manufacturing

Stephen Gray, President & CEO, Gray, Inc. (Q1 2016)

From innovative road repair, driverless trucks, bullet trains, and 3D bridges, advances in technology will help to bring the nation’s infrastructure up to speed while creating high-skilled manufacturing jobs. More

Features

Sustainable Development >>

Building a Sustainable Supply Chain

Lily Russell, Founder, Explain the Chain (Q1 2016)

Sustainable supply chain best practices can build upon site selection goals to reduce costs, mitigate risk, and increase speed to market. More

Leading Metro Locations >>

Beyond Silicon Valley: Promising New Tech Boomtowns

Steffen Kammerer, Senior Vice President, Technology Practice Group, JLL (Q1 2016)

In its quest for lower costs, modern facilities, and access to talent, the booming tech sector is finding it can strike gold outside California. More

Advanced Manufacturing >>

Advancing Manufacturing Through Public/Private Collaboration

Mark Crawford, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q1 2016)

Mike Molnar, Director of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Advanced Manufacturing Office, based at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, describes what’s being done to maintain U.S. leadership in this arena. More

Taxes / Incentives >>

Weighing Economic Incentives in the Location Decision

Bradley Migdal, Senior Managing Director, Business Incentives Practice, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. (Q1 2016)

The strength of the industrial market gives companies the upper hand when making site selection decisions. More

Construction / Project Planning >>

Optimizing Integrated Design / Construction Project Delivery

Matt Wagner, Structural Engineering Manager, Ghafari Associates (Q1 2016)

IPD requires considerable time and effort on the facility owner’s side, but this front-end planning will help in avoiding costly delays once construction gets under way. More

Logistics / Infrastructure >>

The Importance of Energy and ICT Infrastructure in Site Selection as Cloud Computing Broadens

Larry Gigerich, Executive Managing Director , Ginovus (Q1 2016)

Reliance on a community’s telecom and energy infrastructure has heightened the importance of these factors in the location decision-making process for both the providers and users of cloud computing services and the IoT. More

Annual Corporate & Consultants Survey's

Corporate Exec Survey Results >>

30th Annual Survey of Corporate Executives: Cautious Optimism Reflected

Geraldine Gambale, Editor, Area Development Magazine (Q1 2016)

New facility and expansion plans are up slightly on a year-over-year basis, although finding skilled labor is once again top of mind. Nearly half the respondents believe the U.S. economy is on a continuous growth track. More

Corporate Exec Survey Results >>

12th Annual Consultants Survey: Clients’ Robust New Facility/Expansion Plans Revealed

Geraldine Gambale, Editor, Area Development Magazine (Q1 2016)

Two thirds of the consultants believe the economy is on a continuous growth track, and nearly all are busy helping clients with new facility and expansion plans. The primary recipient of these new facilities will be the Southern states. More

Special Report

Energy / Clean Tech >>

Public Power Communities: Technology for Business Success

Steve Kaelble, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q1 2016)

From powering up huge data centers to providing telecom and water services, and helping customers become energy-efficient through the latest technologies, public power companies re-invest in the communities they serve. More

Departments

Workplace Trends >>

Frontline: Incubators Help Startups to Grow and Succeed

Dale D. Buss, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q1 2016)

Startup fever is exploding across America, as a slow-growth economy, corporate job cutbacks, and the work ethos and expectations of the burgeoning millennial generation reshape the business landscape. More

Economy / Market Analysis >>

Editor’s Note: 2016 Economic Projections - Growth Will Be Good But Not Great

Geraldine Gambale, Editor, Area Development Magazine (Q1 2016)

CFOs believe North America can continue to shoulder the global burden of economic growth, while Area Development’s Corporate Survey respondents are evenly split on whether or not the U.S. economy has achieved a continuous growth track. More

Advanced Manufacturing >>

First Person: Bosch Rexroth Grows Its North American Presence & Workforce

Mike McCormick, Vice President and Technical Plant Manager , Bosch Rexroth (Q1 2016)

Mike McCormick, Vice President and Technical Plant Manager at the Bosch Rexroth facility in Fountain Inn, S.C., recently spoke with Area Development about the company’s decision to expand its presence in North America as well its efforts to build a qualified workforce. More

Taxes / Incentives >>

In Focus: Incentives No More - Why States are Changing Course on Incentives

Tim Cook, CEO, KSM Location Advisors (Q1 2016)

As some states table or modify their incentives programs for financial and/or political reasons, growing companies need to take these actions into account when making location decisions. More

Asset / Facility Management >>

Frontline: Implementing the New Ozone Standard - First Steps

Tom Ewing, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q1 2016)

Many urban industrial facility managers are familiar with working in nonattainment areas. But a new lower standard will sweep in new territory. More

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