This week's SiteNet Dispatch also features exclusive corporate interviews and fresh reporting from elsewhere in Latin America, from the most recent issue of Site Selection:

• Multiple projects and multiple experts point to a turnaround for Mexico's hard-hit economy, in Ready For a New Year.
  

• Meanwhile, a system from Bricsnet is helping a major holder of Mexican industrial space better manage its portfolio, in our Technology Toolbox offering, Facilitating Manufacturing.
  
  

• Finally, our Top Caribbean Locations Special Advertising Section reinforces what we learned from our recent Blockbuster Deal story on rum production expansions, in Business Climate Heats Up In the Tropics.
  

• FROM THE ARCHIVES: The nuclear power industry is abuzz over the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s loan guarantees announced two days ago for two new nuclear reactors at Southern Co.’s Plant Vogtle, near Augusta, Ga. Site Selection paid a visit to that plant a while back in order to profile the potential expansions for our July 2007 cover story “Power Punch.” Attentive readers will note that some dollar figures have changed since then, and they’re not lower.

• There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes:
  
  
  • "Solvay Opens R&D Centres Across Asia"
    
    
  • "Trust Chem Opens Site in the Netherlands"
    
    
  • "Malvern Instruments Opens New Centre in India"
    
    
  • "Hempel to Expand R&D Centre in Spain"
    
    
  • "Kuraray Expands German Plant"

Data to Move On: For 20 years, the Conway Data New Plant Database has offered monthly insights into where corporations are investing in major facilities. If you've never subscribed to Conway Data New Plant Reports, now may be just the time to give your business development efforts an early start on the new year.

• Ready 'n' Rarin' to Go for Everyone
  
  You can now get the entire January 2010 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:
  • qualify to receive a free subscription.
  • request additional digital delivery of Site Selection.
  • renew your subscription to the magazine.
  Read it all now!

Soar to New Heights: More than 60 years of adventures in both aviation and economic development give McKinley Conway, the globetrotting and visionary founder of Site Selection publisher Conway Data, a truly unique perspective. His brand new book, "Economic Development: A Flight Plan for Success," provides valuable guidance for new leaders in the field and refreshing insights for development executives at any level. Read more about it here and order it directly from Amazon.com.

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


• February 23 - 25, 2010 Utility Economic Development Association 2010 Winter Forum
• February 25, 2010 Milken Institute Forum: "Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know"
• March 3 - 4, 2010 Turkey Business and Investment Summit 2010
• March 7 - 10, 2010 The 17th Annual CFO Rising Conference & Exhibition
• March 24 - 26, 2010 U.S.-Cuba Travel Summit
• April 13 - 15, 2010 International Facility Management Association "Facility Fusion"
• April 14 - 17, 2010 The 3rd International Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction
• April 18 - 20, 2010 2010 Federal Economic Development Forum
• April 19 - 21, 2010 Procurecon Indirect 2010
• April 20 - 22, 2010 2nd Annual Critical Commodities Conference
• April 22 - 23, 2010 Streamlining Business, Trade & Commerce

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

• 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 importantb 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.