How To Evaluate Locations

When Evaluating Potential Sites, You Have to Ask the Right Questions

By: Kate McEnroe

For the past two years, economic conditions have forced companies to focus on reducing costs and delivering short-term profits.

Projects that require an investment, even one that will ultimately increase profits, are being delayed as long as possible. Every employee, every square foot of real estate and every piece of capital is being used to the utmost before new investments are authorized.

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Retrograde: Benefiting From the Experience of Others

By: Bill King

It seems that a week doesn’t go by without somebody calling us looking for a list. State and community economic developers want a list of what relocating companies are looking for, and relocating companies are always looking for lists on how best to navigate their way through the complex task of site selection.

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The Internet Can Trim the Site Selection Process from Months to Weeks

By: Dan Perkins

Once upon a time, a young corporate executive was charged with finding a location for the company’s new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility.

The naïve businessman, armed with a map and an extensive expense account, set out scouring the country eyeing sites that offered a dedicated work force, easy access to transportation routes and a high quality of life.

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