This week's edition of the SiteNet Dispatch brings readers new and exclusive stories from the March 2008 Site Selection, including: Mississippi River Corridor: "International Feel" (Expanded Web Edition) Northeast Regional Review: "Consumer Driven" Puerto Rico: "Building Blocks" Meet Me in St. Louie: Midcoast Aviation (pictured) has been steadily landing new jobs in the St. Louis metro, the fastest-growing area abutting the Mississippi River, according to Conway Data's New Plant database. Midcoast anticipates adding another 200 jobs this year to its 1,300-employee work force, the 14th largest in southern Illinois. THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: North Carolina's Touchstone Energy cooperatives.

There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes: "Satyam Creates 2000 Jobs in Australia" "Toyota Plans New Plant in India" "Sony Opens Imageworks Office in India" "Alcon to Build Plant in Singapore" "Texim Launches Sales Operation in Austria" Where in the World? What, you may well ask, is that humongous thing pictured here, and why is it sitting in the middle of that building? That, dear readers, is "the world's biggest banjo." 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 18 - 21, 2008 WAIPA World Investment Conference Accra International Conference Centre, Accra, Ghana 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 24 - 26, 2008 American Bar Association 2008 Forum on the Construction Industry La Quinta Resort & Club, Palm Springs, CA 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 12, 2008 SHSTP Services Outsourcing Forum Urban Construction Cultural Building, Hangzhou, China May 14 - 16, 2008 Opportunities in Transportation Infrastructure 2008 Almas Temple, Washington, DC 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.