December 6, 2007
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This issue of the SiteNet Dispatch looks at the hefty expansion payload that Rolls-Royce is dropping into Virginia: a US$500-million, 500-employee jet engine plant on a 1,025-acre (410-hectare) site. Much of that broad-ranging blockbuster nearly landed in Singapore instead.

Gov. Timothy Kaine with CEO James Guyette
You Were Serious, Weren't You? Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine (left) talks with Rolls-Royce North America President and CEO James Guyette (right) after Rolls announced its far-reaching expansion in Prince George County.

This issue brings you new and exclusive stories from the November 2007 issue of Site Selection, including:

  • Kansas: "Kansas Hold 'Em" (Expanded Web Edition)
  • Nebraska: "Nebraska's Renewable Fuel Ramp-Up"
  • Singapore: "Island Dynamo"
  • Technology Toolbox: "Software Aids BPO Firm's Site Search"

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Louisville's Museum Plaza Positive Growth Signs: Early engagement with local and state officials helped homegrown Lowen Corp., the nation's largest manufacturer of real estate signage, finish this headquarters- manufacturing-distribution complex in Hutchinson, Kan., on time and under budget.


There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes:
  • "Allianz Launches Nordic HQ"
  • "Skoda Opens New Plant in Russia"
  • "AstraZeneca to Invest Further in Japan"
  • "Grawe Opens Business Centre in Serbia"
  • "Cotty Vivant Launches in Singapore"
Land of Lincoln's Big Project Has Taylorsville Address: A Tenaska-MDL Holding Co. joint venture is planning a $1.1-billion commercial-scale power plant (pictured) near the small town of Taylorville, Ill. The facility would be the first privately owned U.S. plant using integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) technology, which greatly reduces air pollution by pressurizing coal rather than burning it.

Gross Mischaracterization: The Nov. 2007 Site Selection summary of Illinois legislative developments linked to in the Nov. 1st Dispatch misreported the status of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's plan to implement a gross receipts tax (GRT). Here is a correction from Site Selection Managing Editor Adam Bruns:

In fact, the GRT proposal was not signed into law, but was turned back 107-0 by a non-binding House resolution in May. We regret the error. The Tax Foundation's "State Business Tax Climate Index Rankings 2008," released in November, made mention of the GRT proposal and its impact on corporate facility investment: "In Illinois, hundreds of millions of dollars of capital expenditures were delayed when Governor Blagojevich proposed a hefty gross receipts tax," read the report. "Only when the legislature resoundingly defeated the bill did the investment resume."

A complete wrap-up on the issue can be found in the Illinois General Assembly's Legislative Research Unit's Oct. 2007 issue of its newsletter, "First Reading."

For more on the Land of Lincoln's climate for business, read our recent report on its candidate sites for the FutureGen clean coal project, or our March 2007 ranking of Chicago as the nation's No. 1 metro area in 2006 for new corporate facilities and expansions.

Copacetic clicking,

Jack Lyne
Site Selection Executive Editor of Interactive Publishing

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