What a difference 16 months can make. Just ask Port St. Lucie, Fla., which has gone from a disappointing second-place finish to welcoming in a string of biomedical heavyweights including the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, the Mann Research Center and, now, Oregon's Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute. Speaking in Biotech Tongues: Shown here in an aerial view, the Florida Center for Innovation at Tradition mixed-used development has become ground zero for the growing biomedical cluster in Port St. Lucie. This issue of the SiteNet Dispatch brings you new and exclusive stories from the brand-new January 2008 issue of Site Selection, including: North American Reports: "A Soft and Fluffy Landing" (Expanded Web Edition) Georgia: "Half Empty or Half Full?" (Expanded Web Edition) Infrastructure: "Decision Time for Desalt Plants" Contact Centers: "Merry-Go-Round" Texas Connection: Wisconsin-based CUNA Mutual, the world's largest provider of financial products and services to credit unions, went through an exhaustive national search in 2006 before choosing Fort Worth for this 600-employee center. THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: Northern Kentucky Tri-ED.

There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes: "Markit Establishes Sydney Office" "Trelleborg to Expand in Sri Lanka" "Faurecia to Build New Plant in India" "Cubic Plans London Office" "Casio Moves to New HQ in Germany" Limiting the emissions contributing to global warming: "What's Your Take?" on how that growing global movement will impact manufacturing in your area? Copacetic clicking, Jack Lyne Site Selection Executive Editor of Interactive Publishing

Upcoming Conferences and Expositions of Note Read more on the expanded events calendar at SiteNet.com. January 21 - 23, 2008 World Future Energy Summit, Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates January 21 - 25, 2008 World of Concrete, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV January 23 - 27, 2008 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2008, Davos, Switzerland January 22 - 24, 2008 7th Annual Executive Elite Global Summit of the Americas, Sheraton Panama Hotel & Convention, Panama City, Panama January 24 - 26, 2008 MEDESTATE, International Exhibition Center of the Exchange Of Casablanca, Morocco January 24 - 25, 2008 Tax Credit Finance Course, DoubleTree Washington, DC January 29, 2008 AutoUkraine SAS Radison Hotel, Kiev, Ukraine January 29 - 31, 2008 NAI Global Convention Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV February 5 - 6, 2008 12th Annual Urban Land Institute Europe Conference InterContinental Paris Le Grand, Paris, France February 11 - 15, 2008 CERAWeek 2008: The Quest for Energy Security The Westin Galleria & Oaks, Houston, TX February 18 - 20, 2008 Global Summit to Address Outsourcing, Offshoring and Globalization Disney's Contemporary Resort, Orlando, FL February 26 - 28, 2008 LogiCon 2008 Hotel Le Plaza, Brussels, Belgium February 27 - 29, 2008 International Facility Management Association FM-3D conference Hilton Houston Post Oak, Houston, TX March 11 - 14, 2008 MIPIM 2008 Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France March 12 - 14, 2008 ECO:nomics: Creating Environmental Capital Bacara Resort, Santa Barbara, CA April 9 - 11, 2008 Airport Cities World Conference & Exhibition Dallas/Ft Worth International Airport, Dallas, TX April 13 - 15, 2008 2008 IEDC Federal Economic Development Forum Westin Alexandria, Alexandria, VA April 19 - 23, 2008 IAMC Professional Forum The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa, Phoenix, AZ April 24 - 26, 2008 NAI Global SIOR Spring Conference Grand Hyatt, Washington, DC ONLINE ONLY Court Ordered Bankruptcy Auction COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Bidding Ends Tuesday, January 29 at 1:00 p.m. Polk, Carroll, & Haralson Counties, Georgia PROP. 101 - 9+- ACRES ZONED COMMERCIAL - OFFERED IN 2 TRACTS (Corner of U.S. Highway 27 and Stephens Road, Cedartown, GA) Tract 1: 7.80+- Acres Tract 2: 1.56+- Acres PROP. 102 - 1,868+- SQ. FT. RETAIL BUILDING ON .86+- ACRE (840 Newnan Road Carrollton, GA) PROP. 103 - 1,924+- SQ. FT. RETAIL BUILDING ON .94+- ACRE (788 Highway 100 & I-20, Tallapoosa, GA) PROP. 104 - 3+- ACRES ZONED COMMERCIAL - OFFERED IN 2 TRACTS - (788 Highway 100 & I-20, Tallapoosa, GA) Tract 1: 2.35+- Acres Tract 2: .76+- Acres http://rowellauctions.com/auction_detail.php?ID=375604 10% BP GAL AUC002594 800-323-8388 RowellAuctions.com paid advertisment CONDUCT LOCATION RESEARCH ON ANY U.S. STATE OR COMMUNITY DevelopmentAlliance.com has always offered detailed state, county, metropolitan and micropolitan statistical data for companies seeking new business locations in the U.S. ... The Web site enables comparisons of critical data sets from every U.S. county and gives corporate site selectors the ability to select up to five communities at once for a side-by-side comparison. Now you can also find important international data through our International Guide. This is a free service of Conway Data, Site Selection magazine, SiteNet.com and the International Economic Development Council. Just log on to DevelopmentAlliance.com and find out what thousands of other site selectors have already discovered: DevelopmentAlliance.com is the place to go when conducting Internet-based research on possible business locations. FREE LOCATION ASSISTANCE is just a click away! NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION SIGN UP FOR SITENET DISPATCH Did a friend forward you this e-mail? Sign up for your own free e-mail newsletter by visiting http://www.sitenet.com MISSING ISSUES? Please add SiteNet Dispatch [dispatch@sitenet.com] to your address book to prevent your email system from filtering our newsletters as spam. Look at our online archive to find what you missed, http://www.sitenet.com/dispatch/archive.cfm FEEDBACK Please send comments about content to Adam Bruns or suggestions for how to improve this newsletter to Shannon Landin. MAGAZINE CUSTOMER SERVICE For magazine subscription concerns such as back issues, address changes, and account status information, please visit our customer service department at http://www.siteselection.com/response Would you prefer to read this newsletter in your web browser? Click here. The SiteNet Dispatch is best viewed at a screen resolution of 800 x 600 or larger. The SiteNet Dispatch is a free service of SiteNet (http://www.sitenet.com), the Internet's premier source of corporate real estate and economic development information. Copyright 2008, Conway Data, Inc. All Rights Reserved.