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FIRST WORD 44 APPLE STREET, SUITE 3 • TINTON FALLS, NEW JERSEY 07724 (732) 842-7433 • (800) 524-0337 • FAX (732) 758-6634 VOLUME 40 NUMBER 11 The Education Connection www.BusinessFacilities.com EXECUTIVE PUBLISHER TED COENE tcoene@groupc.com T EDITOR IN CHIEF KARIM KHAN kkhan@groupc.com alking about the technology resources of a location without mentioning higher education is a difficult task; you’ll notice in our cover story this month (see “Extreme Technology Sites,” page 14) that the first reference to a university appears as early as the second paragraph. That’s because the type of technology that is going to be driving economies tomorrow, the way manufacturing drove our economy 50 years ago, is incubating right now—in the world’s institutions of higher learning. In the case of that second paragraph, the university is the University of Tennessee, where students and their mentors are working in partnership with the private sector and the Department of energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to answer pressing questions in biotechnology, alternative energy, and nanotechnology. It brings to mind a question: Will they have enough bright researchers to continue commercializing all this technology 10, 20, or even 30 years from now? It’s a real concern for some locations. A recent summary report from Angelou Economics points out that many cities are showing gradual decreases in the education levels of successive generations of their workforce. Left unchecked, technology companies may expand less in cities like Dallas, TX and Miami, FL, and more in Minneapolis, MN and Philadelphia, PA (to use the trending data from the Angelou report). Turning the trend around requires long-range planning and a willingness on the part of locations to invest in the future of their workforce. MANAGING EDITOR MICHELLE JANOWITZ mjanowitz@groupc.com ASSOCIATE EDITOR PEARL GABEL pgabel@groupc.com EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD PHILIP W. ANDERSON, PHD, PRESIDENT AND CEO, P.W. ANDERSON & PARTNERS, INC.; DEL BIRCH, VICE PRESIDENT, ExecutivePulse, INC.; JAN DICKINSON, PRESIDENT AND CEO, THE DICKINSON CONSULTING GROUP; MICHAEL P. HICKEY, PRESIDENT, HICKEY & ASSOCIATES; STUART MACKAY, PRESIDENT, MMK CONSULTING; DON SCHJELDAHL, DIRECTOR OF THE FACILITIES LOCATION GROUP, THE AUSTIN CO.; FREDERICK METZ SHEPPARD, MANAGING DIRECTOR, QUADRAL GROUP; FRANK J. SHERWOOD, VICE PRESIDENT, STAUBACH CORPORATE SERVICES, HOWARD R. SILVERMAN, PRESIDENT & CEO, THE CAI GLOBAL GROUP INC.; MARK SWEENEY, SENIOR PRINCIPAL, MCCALLUM SWEENEY CONSULTING; JERRY SZATAN, PRINCIPAL, SZATAN & ASSOCIATES REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE BOARD OF THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (IEDC): FRANK MANCINI, JR., MANAGING MEMBER, HARBORAGE, LLC PRODUCTION MANAGER LUANN RATHEMACHER luann@groupc.com GROUP CREATIVE DIRECTOR JEFFREY CLAPP clapp@groupc.com SENIOR DESIGNER KEVIN PHELAN kphelan@groupc.com ADVERTISING NATIONAL SALES MANAGER: U.S. AND EUROPE JIM SEMPLE jsemple@groupc.com SR. ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE: U.S. AND CARIBBEAN BEN NACHSIN bnachsin@groupc.com SR. ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE: REAL ESTATE AND BUSINESS SERVICES, WEST COAST, MEXICO, CANADA, ASIA/PACIFIC, SOUTH/CENTRAL AMERICA DAVE GOLDSTEIN dgoldstein@groupc.com WEBMASTER PETER MCCABE pmccabe@groupc.com AD TRAFFICKING MANAGER JUDY NOWELL jnowell@groupc.com VP MARKETING AND CIRCULATION BILL MACRAE bmacrae@groupc.com MARKETING DIRECTOR MARY ELLEN MCCANDLESS maryellen@groupc.com CIRCULATION MANAGER/SALES ASSISTANT CATHY ASTE caste@groupc.com GROUP C COMMUNICATIONS, INC. EDGAR T. COENE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUSAN COENE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TED COENE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LYLE CONNOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD . MANAGING PARTNER . MANAGING PARTNER . COMPTROLLER BUSINESS FACILITIES IS A PUBLICATION OF GROUP C COMMUNICATIONS, INC. ©COPYRIGHT 2007 BY GROUP C COMMUNICATIONS; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Karim Khan kkhan@groupc.com 6 NOVEMBER 2007 PROUD MEMBERS OF: http://www.BusinessFacilities.com

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Business Facilities - November 2007 Contents First Words Snapshots Metro Spotlight: Indianapolis Region, Indiana Georgia's Pursuit of Industry Extreme Technology Sites A Tennessee Trifecta A Watershed Moment for Philly Metro Spotlight: Mexico-Texas Border Region High Tech and Aerospace Heat up in Arizona Meeting the Information Technology Challenge IEDC Announces 2007 Winners Corporate Moves: Alabama Northeast Arkansas Scores Major Investments Corporate Moves: Virginia Metro Spotlight: Martinsville-Henry County, VA Renewable Michigan Advertiser Index Ask the Expert

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