Who's redeveloping a major site to pump up efficiencies and cash flow? The United States Postal Service, that's who. The agency is shopping a hot downtown Chicago site that's drawing so much interest that it crashed the RFP Web site, as this week's SiteNet Dispatch explains. Plum Property? Developers are lining up to get a crack at redeveloping the site for the USPS's Fort Dearborn Station (pictured) in downtown Chicago, smack dab in the middle of the fast-growing River North area. Photo: Staubach Co. This week's edition of the SiteNet Dispatch brings readers new and exclusive stories from the March 2008 Site Selection, including: Airport Cities: "Denver Airport Region Awakens" Southern California: "The Circle City Takes Shape" Maryland: "Money Hub" THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development and North Carolina's Touchstone Energy cooperatives.

Private-Sector Takeoff: The private sector, not government, generates the greatest returns and best services in developing airport cities, contends University of North Carolina Professor John Kasarda (pictured), who assists communities worldwide in creating large developments centered on air travel. There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes: "Brace Automotive Opens French Office" "FircoSoft Launches London Office" "EuroMaint Opens Workshop in Latvia" "Alcatel-Lucent Plans Facility in Russia" "Novaled Launches Subsidiary in Japan" Where in the World? What do you do if you have "the world's biggest banjo" in your building? Why, you stick the neck out the front window. Can you name the city that's home to this decidedly unconventional piece of storefront signage? 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. April 2 - 3, 2008 Supply Chain Management Summit Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center, Boston, MA 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 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. You are subscribed as: eeee To change the format in which you receive this email, update your contact information or cancel your subscription, please click here.