This week's SiteNet Dispatch features fresh content from the latest issue of
Site Selection:

• South Africa prepares to show the world a good time, and an even better business case, in Time for Kickoff.

• In Illinois, a still-simmering clean coal project gets some big-time corporate support, and Centerpoint Intermodal Center in Joliet gets some big-time investment, in FutureGen Project Adds Industrial Endorsements.
  
  

• In our special advertising section, T5 Partners' Pete Marin outlines several factors that come into play when it comes to data center site selection.

• There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes:
  
  
  • "Skanska Invests in Poland"
    
    
  • "Alpari Establishes German Office"
    
    
  • "KPMG to Expand in India"
    
    
  • "Lambie-Nairn to Open Office in Spain"
    
    
  • "Nestle Launches CRM Centre in UK"

SiteNet.com's new travel blog OnSITE, is off and running, documenting our "site seeing" experiences around the world with fresh posts on Clarke Quay in Singapore, the Summer Palace in Beijing and spectacular Holy Week rituals in Guatemala.

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


• April 30 - May 1 AURP BioParks 2010: No Boundaries to Innovation
• May 3 - 5, 2010 BIO International 2010
• May 10 - 12, 2010 The 11th Annual DOE Small Business Conference & Expo
• May 10 - 13, 2010 2010 Annual Development Finance Summit
• May 25 - 26, 2010 2010 KPMG Global Energy Conference
• July 11 - 12, 2010 ESRI Business GIS Summit
• August 4 - 6, 2010 Techonomy: A New Philosophy of Progress
• September 8 - 11, 2010 China International Fair for Investment & Trade

Industrial Asset Management Council Future Sites Watch

• 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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