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Amazon has really grouped its real estate order for shipping. As this week's SiteNet Dispatch explains, the online titan has double-clicked on 1.64 million sq. ft. (147,600 sq. m.) of headquarters space in 11 new buildings for 7,000 employees - 3,000 of them new hires.
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Sailing for a Big Landing: Amazon will dock its massive consolidated headquarters in Seattle's revitalized South Lake Union neighborhood (pictured).
Photo: City of Seattle Office of Economic Development
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This week's SiteNet Dispatch brings readers new and exclusive stories from the March 2008 issue of Site Selection, including:
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Huge, in the Littoral Sense: Austal is building the U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (pictured) at its Mobile, Ala., shipyard, where the company now has decided to invest $254 million in another expansion. |
There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes:
- "Hyundai to Build Parts Plant in Russia"
- "ICBC to Open Australian Branch"
- "Abengoa to Create 75 Jobs in Netherlands"
- "Flextronics Expands in Hungary"
- "Saint-Gobain Further Invests in Bulgaria"
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Where in the World? The unusual object that's pictured here, dear readers,
 is "the world's biggest banjo." Can you name the city in which this rather bizarre item is located?
Attention, Corporate Real Estate Executives and Service Providers: Site Selection is launching its first Excellence in Corporate Real Estate Awards, saluting sustainability; overall project return; innovation or process improvement; alignment of the real estate function with corporate strategy; and managerial leadership. Nominate a colleague or client, now, by going to http://www.siteselection.com/ecreaward/.
Copacetic clicking,
Jack Lyne
Site Selection Executive Editor of Interactive Publishing
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Upcoming Conferences and Expositions of Note
Read more on the expanded events calendar at SiteNet.com. |
- 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 15 - 17, 2008 Cityscape Asia Suntec Singapore
- 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
- April 28 - 30, 2008 Milken Institute Global Conference Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles, CA
- April 29 - May 1, 2008 CDFA's Annual Development Finance Summit Hyatt Regency St. Louis, MO
- May 5 - 7, 2008 National Brownfields Conference Cobo Center, Detroit, MI
- May 18 - 21, 2008 NAI Global ICSC Spring Convention Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV
- May 19 - 22, 2008 Shared Services Week 2008 Melia Sitges, Barcelona, Spain
- June 8 - 10, 2008 IEDC's Building Cutting-Edge Public-Private Partnerships Westin Charlotte, NC
- June 12 - 13, 2008 World Forum for Direct Investment London, United Kingdom
- June 12 - 15, 2008 Real Estate Eurasia Tuyap Exhibition Center, Istanbul, Turkey
- June 16, 2008 The FT ULI Sustainable Cities Awards & Conference East Wintergarden, London, United Kingdom
- June 25 - 27, 2008 Cityscape China Shanghai New International Expo Centre, Shanghai, China
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