Big Blue is getting ready to get a lot bigger in New York, investing US$1.5 billion and adding 1,000 new jobs, as this week's SiteNet Dispatch explains. IBM's large-scale expansion is getting a strong jolt of growth juice from the tiniest of nano-technologies - plus $140 million in New York subsidies, despite the state's $26.2-billion deficit. Tiny Chips, Big Jobs Numbers: Workers at IBM's $2.5-billion semiconductor plant in East Fishkill, N.Y., will build the new and more advanced nano-chips that are developed in the Empire State. And, thanks to the company's incentives agreement with New York Gov. David Paterson, all of the Fishkill operation's 1,400 existing jobs will remain intact. Photo: Empire State Development This week's SiteNet Dispatch brings readers new and exclusive stories from the July 2008 Site Selection, including: Southeast Region: "State Line Fever" Oregon: "A Place to Thrive" Project Finance: "A New School of Thought" Room Enough for $1.2 Billion to Grow Into: Kia is building its $1.2-billion plant on this site in West Point, Ga., where the company has certainly seen no labor shortages. Some 43,000 people applied for the 2,500 hourly jobs at the production operation that sits flush on the Alabama line. There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes: "Union Bank of India Launches in Hong Kong" "SABMiller Expands to Austria and Sweden" "Burgess Expands into Spain" "Honda to Expand Motorcycle Output in India" "Moretto Sets Up Centre in Germany" THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: New Jersey Commerce and Churchill Technology and Business Park.

Photo: Ian Britton, FreeFoto.com Big Bird: That outsized fellow that's pictured on the right is "the world's largest penguin" - 27 feet (8.2 meters) tall and weighing in at 10,000 pounds (4,500 kilograms). See if you can name the city in which the penguin stands - and find out how it got there - in our new "Where in the World?" 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. 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 8 - 10, 2008 Infrastructure Finance Summit Sutton Place Hotel, Chicago, IL September 13 - 17, 2008 IAMC Fall 2008 Professional Forum The Skirvin Hilton and the Colcord, Oklahoma City, OK September 17 - 18, 2008 21st Century Technology for Logistics and Manufacturing in North America Laredo, TX September 17 - 18, 2008 The Industry Primer: Development Bond Finance Course Doubletree Washington, DC October 6 - 8, 2008 Expo Real New Munich Trade Fair Centre, Munich, Germany October 6 - 9, 2008 Cityscape Dubai Dubai International Exhibition Centre, Dubai, U.A.E. October 19 - 22, 2008 IEDC Annual Conference Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, GA October 20 - 22, 2008 North American Port & Intermodal Finance & Investment Summit St. Regis Hotel, Houston, TX October 20 - 23, 2008 Development 08 (NAIOP Annual Conference) The Hotel at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV November 19 - 21, 2008 MIPIM Asia Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong November 30 - December 3, 2008 The 8th World Free Zone Convention The Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, SC 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.