This week's SiteNet Dispatch brings readers new and exclusive stories from the September 2008 Site Selection: North Carolina: "Is Tar Heel Blue the New Green?" Excellence in Corporate Real Estate Award: "Excellence Is Its Own Reward" Editor's View: "The Call to Excellence" Arizona: "Life Sciences Haven" Investment Profile - Saxony-Anhalt: "The Marriage of Labor and Logistics" Already Delivering: Ten years in the making, the 170-acre (69-hectare) Mid-Atlantic hub that FedEx will open in 2009 at Piedmont Triad International is already registering a major impact. The massive North Carolina operation is a magnet for the manufacturing and distribution operations that are now flocking into the surrounding region, which includes Greensboro, High Point and Winston-Salem. THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: New Jersey Commerce.

There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes: "Airbus Opens New Plant in China" "NIOC Launches Office in Beijing" "Toyota Boshoku and Aisin to Open Polish Plant" "Renault Trucks to Open Bulgarian Office" Blinding Speed: The "15 Days" crew doing their high-speed work inside the office space in Boston's Financial District. Photo: Geoffrey Kula Postscript: Finally, here's a brief update on last week's story on the über-speed fit-out of 10,000 sq. ft. (900 sq. m.) of LEED-quality space in Boston. At 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 26th, the construction crew on that ambitious project knocked off for the week - and for the entire job. They'd hit their fast-track target, completing the work in 15 days - a quarter of the conventional time frame - with a city-issued Certificate of Use and Occupancy hanging on the front door. 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. October 4 - 7, 2008 CDFA TIF Seminar in Virginia The Homestead Resort, Hot Springs, United States 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 7 - 9, 2008 India Infrastructure Investment Congress 2008 Mumbai, India October 14 - 15, 2008 ACED - Airports - Catalysts for Economic Development Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia October 15 - 17, 2008 The 39th International Symposium on Robotics COEX Convention Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea October 15 - 17, 2008 ArkiPARC 2008 Military Museum and Cultural Complex, Istanbul, Turkey October 15 - 17, 2008 The World Workplace 2008 Conference & Expo Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, TX October 17 - 18, 2008 CCIM & IREM Success Series 2008 Hilton Chicago, Chicago, USA 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 October 20 - 22, 2008 North American Port & Intermodal Finance & Investment Summit St. Regis Hotel, Houston, TX October 27 - 30, 2008 5th International Congress of Nano-Bio Clean Tech 2008 San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel, Burlingame, United States October 27 - 28, 2008 2008 Summit on Economic & Workforce Development Cox Convention Center, Oklahoma City, OK October 28, 2008 Milken Institute California State of the State Conference The Beverly Hilton Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, United States October 30 - 31, 2008 Associated Owners & Developers National Conference East Conrad Hotel, Miami, FL October 30 - November 1, 2008 NAI Global SIOR Fall Conference Hilton, Minneapolis, MN November 4 - 6, 2008 Cityscape Latin America 2008 Transamerica Expo Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil November 19 - 21, 2008 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, USA 02210 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.