This week's SiteNet Dispatch brings you insights that only Site Selection's brand of business journalism can deliver, including:

• Georgia: Venture Capital Vacuum?, where some heavyweights weigh in on the state's biotech scene;


• Super Sites: Give Me Land, Lots of Land , our sixth annual look at mega-parcels aligning for mega-projects, including our four-page chart;


• Question & Insight: Helping Us Help Ourselves , featuring our interview with Jeff McCroskey, vice president and chief procurement officer for NCR Corp.;


• Editor's View: Editor in Chief Mark Arend is "Thinking About Tomorrow."

Dr. Stephen Hill, president and CEO of Solvay Pharmaceuticals, is one of several executives who told us what they think of Georgia's business climate for biotech.	Could this Class I mainline help turn a southeast Georgia research forest into a research campus? Only if it has what it takes to be a Super Site.

Far-Out Fowl: Yep, the giant sheet-metal contraption pictured here really is a chicken - one that's 56 feet (17 meters) tall. The seven-story structure has become an iconic landmark in one major U.S. metropolitan area. See if you can name the suburban city that the "Big Chicken" calls home - and find out why it's lasted there for 46 years in our new "Where in the World?"

January's Site Selection

Ready 'n' Rarin' to Go for Your Online Reading: The entire January issue of Site Selection is now available in digital edition format. By using the "Navigate" menu in the upper left-hand corner, resourceful readers can also:

• qualify to receive a free subscription.
• request additional digital delivery of Site Selection;
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There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes:

• "Miele Creates 50 Jobs in Austria"
• "Gala Expands HQ in Ireland"
• "GAC Group Opens New Office in France"
• "Essilor to Cut Jobs at Plant in UK"
• "Bosch to Cut Jobs at Plant in Hungary"

Copacetic clicking,

Jack Lyne
Site Selection Executive Editor of Interactive Publishing

• January 25 - 27, 2009: 41st Georgia Foreign Trade Conference, The Cloister, Sea Island, GA


• February 2 - 4, 2009: Logicon Europe 2009, Hotel Bloom, Brussels, Belgium


• February 4, 2009: 13th Annual ULI Europe Conference, The Westin Hotel, Paris


• February 9 - 13, 2009: CERAWeek 2009: Risk and the Rebuilding of Confidence: Energy Strategies for a Turbulent Economy, Westin Galleria and Oaks, Houston, TX


• February 12, 2009: Central and Eastern European (CEE) Real Estate Tax Forum, Hyatt Hotel, Warsaw, Poland


• February 23 - 26, 2009: Utility Economic Development Association, Marriott Vinoy Resort & Golf Club, St. Petersburg, FL


• February 25 - 26, 2009: Industrial Real Estate Asia, The Fairmont, Singapore,


• March 3 - 5, 2009: GreenBuild South Asia, Grand Hyatt Singapore


• March 4 - 6, 2009: ECO:nomics: Creating Environmental Capital, Bacara Resort, Santa Barbara, CA


• March 5 - 6, 2009 : Bulgaria Business & Investment Summit, Sheraton Hotel Sofia Balkan, Sofia, Bulgaria


• March 9 - 11, 2009: National Waterways Conference 2009 Budget Summit, Phoenix Park Hotel, Washington, D.C.


• March 16 - 18, 2009: JAXPORT 2009 Logistics and Intermodal Conference, Amelia Island Plantation, Amelia Island, FL


• March 26 - 27, 2009: Gaining Ground: Sustainable Urban Development Leadership Summit, Camino Real Hotel, Guanajuato, Mexico


• March 31 - April 3, 2009: LogiChem Europe 2009, Hilton Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany


• April 27 - 29 2009: Milken Institute Global Conference 2009, Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles, CA


• April 27 - 29 2009: Airport Cities, Hilton Hotel, Athens, Greece


• May 2 - 6 2009: Spring 2009 IAMC Professional Forum, Grove Park Inn, Asheville, NC

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