April 2, 2009

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A Flurry of Reader Feedback:
This week's SiteNet Dispatch gives our readers their well-earned say. This installment of From the Mail Pouch features a cornucopia of topics that include: Everglades restoration; Carolina's ports; TPCO's billion-dollar Texas deal; sports tourism; and the city of Suwanee, Ga. Not to mention one reader's smashingly off-base perceptions about our story on, uh, . . . "love relations between people." No, really. Site Selection Online (04/02/2009)

Above, home to U.S. Sugar's headquarters since 1930, Clewiston calls itself "America's Sweetest Town." But for how long?

Pictured in an aerial view is the Port of Wilmington, one of Site Selection's "Emerging Logistics Hubs."
Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Site Selection magazine

Also this week, from the pages of the March 2009 issue of Site Selection, a trio of stories with environmental sustainability at their core:

Sun Spots, the first in a new series of Energy Reports, finds shining examples of solar-cell and related industrial manufacturing capacity expansion across the U.S.

The Southern California Spotlight looks at LEEDing Logistics projects, including interviews with environmentally aware executives at Hanesbrands and Dr Pepper Snapple Group.

Our report on the Transportation Equipment sector explores why Green Transit manufacturing could help some local economies go round and round.

IPA World News

There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes:
- "Bayer to Build New Plant in India"
- "easyJet Plans to Invest in Italy"
- "EVOC Sets Up HQ in Germany"
- "Hankyu Establishes China Office"
- "Fiord to Expand in Kosovo, Albania and Serbia"

Digital Edition

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You can now get the entire March edition of the award-winning Site Selection online by simply using our new reader. By using the "Navigate" menu in the upper left-hand corner, resourceful readers can also:
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Editor's Note

Project New America: Also available online, free of charge, is Site Selection Publisher McKinley Conway's timely new book, Project New America. Conway's 45th book, Project New America offers a detailed plan for national investment in alternative energy to create millions of jobs and make the nation energy independent. Additional material online includes:

Conway's commentary on how Project New America meshes with the Obama recovery plan.
Experts' opinions about Project New America, including endorsements from economic developers and opinion leaders from around the country.
The Project New America Energy Industries Index, featuring a listing of energy companies by nation and state.

Click here to access and download, gratis, the complete text of Project New America.

Upcoming Industry Events

Upcoming Conferences & Expositions of Note
Read about and link to these conferences and many more listed in the events calendar at SiteNet.com.
- April 27 - 29, 2009 - EE Global: Energy Efficiency Global Forum & Exposition
- April 27 - 29, 2009 - Airport Cities
- April 29 - May 1, 2009 - Inland Rivers, Ports & Terminals Annual Conference
- May 2 - 6, 2009 - Spring 2009 IAMC Professional Forum
- May 5 - 7, 2009 - 2009 CDFA Annual Development Finance Summit
- May 7 - 8, 2009- Gaining Ground: Energy and the Future of Cities
- May 11 - 14, 2009- Shared Services & Outsourcing Week

Where in the World?

That's One Big . . . Er, Bird: Yes, that uncommon contraption pictured on the left actually is an enormous chicken, seven stories' worth of sheet metal, soaring to a height of 56 feet (17 meters). This eccentric structure has become an iconic landmark in a 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?"

Looking for more geographical challenges?
Check the Where In The World Archive!

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