What? You say you want a 5,000-acre (2000-hectare) site that can house 80,000 associates? Yes, that's what you're saying these days, at least if you're the Boy Scouts of America, as this week's SiteNet Dispatch explains. Scouting for a Jumbo-Size Site: The Boy Scouts' 2005 Jamboree in Virginia (pictured) packed some 44,000 people into a 3,000-acre (1,200-hectare) tract. But now the organization wants a permanent Jamboree home that can hold almost twice as many people. Photo: BSA Detroit Area Council THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: North Carolina's Touchstone Energy Cooperatives.

Weird - and Fascinating - Science: A unique ovoid auditorium (pictured above) dominates the second phase of the development of the Hong Kong Science Park. This Dispatch edition brings readers new and exclusive stories from the hot-spankin'-new July 2008 Site Selection, including: Cover Story - Research and Science Parks: "Reservations for Research" Universities and Economic Development: "A Whole New Ballgame" European R&D Hubs: "Index Measures Metros' 'Tech-nicity' " Editor's View: "Congress to Industry: A Bronze Will Do" There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes: "H & M to Create 300 Jobs in Wallonia" "FM Logistic Establishes Hub in Poland" "Lectra Opens New Subsidiary in India" "Tetra Pak to Invest in Pakistan and Brazil" "Inergy Establishes China Facility" 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 quiet but quite 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. July 9 - 11, 2008 C40 World Ports Climate Conference Rotterdam, Netherlands July 9 - 11, 2008 SEDC 2008 Summer Seminar Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center, Kissimmee, United States July 22 - 25, 2008 UEDA Summer Forum The Ritz-Carlton,Cleveland, United States 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 1 - 8, 2008 International Contact Center Week Multiple locations 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 October 6 - 8, 2008 Expo RealNew Munich Trade Fair Centre, Munich, Germany October 6 - 9, 2008 Cityscape DubaiDubai International Exhibition Centre, Dubai, U.A.E. October 19 - 22, 2008 IEDC Annual Conference Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, GA October 20 - 23, 2008 Development 08 (NAIOP Annual Conference)The Hotel at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV 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.