Embraer's Phenom executive jet is one hot little airplane. And now the Phenom will be built in Melbourne, Fla., at the Brazilian air giant's first U.S. plant. And as this week's SiteNet Dispatch explains, Embraer made its site-selection sally into the Sunshine State the same way it's ramping up the Phenom model - that is, moving very, very fast. Coming in for a Major Landing: Embraer in Florida will be building the four-passenger Phenom 100 (pictured), which lists for US$2.95 million, and the nine-passenger Phenom 300, which will set you back $6.65 million. Demand is already so heavy that, if you ordered one of the planes today, even with production underway, it couldn't be delivered until 2011. This week's SiteNet Dispatch brings readers new and exclusive stories from the May 2008 issue of Site Selection, including: Alabama: "Thunder in the Shoals" Central America: "BPO Firms Catch a Wave" Utah: "The Great Outdoors" Special Ad Section - Shovel-Ready Sites: "More Than Dirt" Many Mobile Firms Picking Mobile: Expansion is in full flower these days in and around Mobile, Ala. (pictured here from atop the RSA Tower). The region is enjoying an unprecedented string of large-scale corporate projects, landing the likes of ThyssenKrupp, Austal, ST Aerospace and others, including Northrop Grumman and EADS, which plan a $600-million investment in Mobile in conjunction with a $40-billion U.S. Dept. of Defense contract. THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development and New Jersey Commerce.

There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes: "SCHOTT Solar Starts Production in Spain" "DSM Opens New Plant in China" "Samsung to Build New Plant in China" "Sunplus Opens R&D Centres in France and UK" "Linklaters CEE Practices Form Spin-Off" Photo: World's Largest Things Where In the World? This life-size statue commemorates "the world's tallest man," who stood almost nine feet (2.73 meters) tall - and lived a quietly remarkable life. Can you name the city in which this statue sits? 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. 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 July 9 - 11, 2008 C40 World Ports Climate Conference Rotterdam, Netherlands July 24 - 25, 2008 Workforce Development for Economic Developers Training Course Four Points Sheraton BWI Airport Hotel, Baltimore, MD August 17 - 19, 2008 Americas Competitiveness Forum Atlanta, GA August 27 - 29, 2008 International Conference: Urban Development, Regeneration and Finance University of Ulster, Jordanstown Campus, Belfast, Northern Ireland September 8 - 11, 2008 CIFIT - China International Fair for Investment & Trade Xiamen, China September 13 - 17, 2008 IAMC Fall 2008 Professional Forum The Skirvin Hilton and the Colcord, Oklahoma City, OK 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.