• In Berlin just prior to the 20th anniversary celebrations of the country’s reunification, Senior Editor John McCurry reports on Bayer Schering Pharma’s unification plans for a massive campus in the city’s center, and on the forthcoming Berlin Brandenburg International Airport, in Busy Berlin.
  
  

• North American Reports features two separate projects from Dow Agrosciences in Indiana; two from Rolls-Royce in Newfoundland and Ohio; a pair of life sciences headquarters moves in New Jersey and New York; and more than two moves to realign in Reynosa, Mexico.

• Read the first letter to readers from incoming IAMC Chair Jim Winter of Alcoa, learn about Hanesbrands’ real estate operations, and get a glimpse of the United States’ “post-ethnic future” from keynote speaker Joel Kotkin at the recent IAMC Professional Forum in Minneapolis, all in
  the IAMC Insider.

• Institutions of higher learning are playing a key role in high-caliber work force preparation and economic development in Greater Topeka, Kan. Find out more in our Investment Profile of the area, Labor on Demand.
  

• FROM THE ARCHIVES: Last week's “fall of the wall” celebrations in Germany brought a wave of attention to the former East Germany, including wire reports about the companies in Saxony-Anhalt, whose successes have been documented in a series of Site Selection Investment Profiles over the past two years.
  

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Send Us Your Super Sites: It takes a Super Site to serve a super-sized project. For the sixth year in a row, Site Selection is scouring North America and beyond for land tracts measuring at least 1,000 acres (405 hectares) which are targeted for industrial development by a single end user. Site Selection's January 2010 issue will feature its Super Sites update, including a comprehensive and informative chart listing multiple data points and contact information. If you have a site anywhere in the world that fits those criteria, or updates to our existing data, please contact Managing Editor Adam Bruns at adam.bruns@conway.com by Tuesday, Nov. 24.

• There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes:
  
  
  • "IKEA Invests in Spain"
    
    
  • "Hyundai Launches R&D Site in India"
    
    
  • "Lonza to Cut 450 Jobs"
    
    
  • "Allianz Opens New Centre in India"
    
    
  • "Lucite Opens Plant in Singapore"

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Read about and link to these conferences and many more listed in the events calendar at SiteNet.com.


• December 7 - 10, 2009 National Institute of Building Sciences Annual Meeting
• December 9 - 10, 2009 World Free Zone Convention
• January 4 - 6, 2010 2010 Business Summit of the West
• April 18 - 20, 2010 2010 Federal Economic Development Forum

IAMC Future Sites Watch

• April 24-28 Spring 2010 Forum, The Broadmoor - Colorado Springs, CO
• October 2-6 Fall 2010 Forum, The Homestead - Hot Springs, VA
• April 30 - May 4 Spring 2011 Forum, Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa, Albuquerque, NM
• September 10-14 Fall 2011 Forum, Loews Philadelphia Hotel Philadelphia, PA
• April 21-25 Spring 2012 Forum, Hyatt Regency Lost Pines - Austin, TX

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