Business Facilities - July 2008 - (Page 6) FIRST WORD Published by Group C Media, Inc. Rolling Out The Red Carpet 44 APPLE STREET, SUITE 3 • TINTON FALLS, NEW JERSEY 07724 (732) 842-7433 • (800) 524-0337 • FAX (732) 758-6634 VOLUME 41 NUMBER 7 www.BusinessFacilities.com EXECUTIVE PUBLISHER TED COENE tcoene@groupc.com I t is the mission of Business Facilities to present the corporate site selector with all of the critical information that is needed to choose the most conducive location for a new facility, an expansion or a relocation. We do this throughout the year with our monthly compilation of incisive features and departments, but we take special pride in the presentation of our annual Rankings Report, a comprehensive analysis of the fierce competition between the states—and between leading metropolitan areas—in the race to be your location of choice. Like the states themselves, our Rankings Report continues to adapt to meet the complex challenge of today’s shape-shifting economic development environment. We constantly are expanding and enhancing the criteria applied to each rankings category. This year, we completely overhauled the scoring template used for Biotechnology Strength, to make sure that all localities were credited for a diverse range of biotech initiatives and incentives. We also expanded the criteria for our Greenest States ranking. As usual, there were plenty of surprises in the 2008 Rankings Report, including Pennsylvania’s emergence as a biotech powerhouse and the absence of some former class leaders from the top tier of our state education rankings. We’ll attribute the former to strong state leadership and the latter to well, maybe the surf was up during Spring break. South Dakota, meanwhile, continues to chisel its name on our Mt. Rushmore of top Business Climate and Quality of Life listings. We offer hearty congratulations to all of the top-ranked localities, and a word of caution: Don’t get too comfortable—the competition for the 2009 rankings already has begun! EDITOR IN CHIEF JACK ROGERS jrogers@groupc.com ASSOCIATE EDITOR BILL TRÜB btrub@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; FRANK MANCINI, JR., MANAGING MEMBER, HARBORAGE, LLC; 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 PRODUCTION MANAGER LUANN RATHEMACHER luann@groupc.com GROUP CREATIVE DIRECTOR JEFFREY CLAPP clapp@groupc.com SENIOR DESIGNER MEGAN KNIGHT mknight@groupc.com SENIOR WEB DESIGNER GLADYS ROLDAN groldan@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 ONLINE PUBLISHER BILL MACRAE bmacrae@groupc.com MARKETING DIRECTOR MARY ELLEN MCCANDLESS maryellen@groupc.com CIRCULATION MANAGER/SALES ASSISTANT CATHY ASTE caste@groupc.com group media building inspiration. ™ EDGAR T. COENE SUSAN COENE. . TED COENE . . . . LYLE CONNOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD CO-PRESIDENT CO-PRESIDENT COMPTROLLER BUSINESS FACILITIES IS A PUBLICATION OF GROUP C MEDIA, INC. ©COPYRIGHT 2008 BY GROUP C MEDIA; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PROUD MEMBERS OF: Jack Rogers jrogers@groupc.com 6 JULY 2008 http://www.BusinessFacilities.com http://www.BusinessFacilities.com
Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Business Facilities - July 2008 Business Facilities - July 2008 Contents First Word Snapshots Corporate Moves: New York The 2008 Business Facilities Rankings Report 2008 Rankings: Biotech Blasts Off 2008 Rankings: Green with Envy 2008 Rankings: Warm Climate for Business Nanotech Looms Large in Pennsylvania Metro Spotlight: Inland Empire, CA Food Processing Sites: Providing Sustenance as Well as Nutrition Sale-Leasebacks: Easing the Credit Crunch Corporate Moves: Georgia Metro Spotlight: Albuquerque, NM Advertiser Index Inside LiveXchange Business Facilities - July 2008 Business Facilities - July 2008 - Business Facilities - July 2008 (Page Cover1) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Business Facilities - July 2008 (Page Cover2) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Business Facilities - July 2008 (Page 1) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Contents (Page 2) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Contents (Page 3) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Contents (Page 4) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Contents (Page 5) Business Facilities - July 2008 - First Word (Page 6) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Snapshots (Page 7) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Corporate Moves: New York (Page 8) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Corporate Moves: New York (Page 9) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Corporate Moves: New York (Page 10) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Corporate Moves: New York (Page 11) Business Facilities - July 2008 - The 2008 Business Facilities Rankings Report (Page 12) Business Facilities - July 2008 - The 2008 Business Facilities Rankings Report (Page 13) Business Facilities - July 2008 - 2008 Rankings: Biotech Blasts Off (Page 14) Business Facilities - July 2008 - 2008 Rankings: Biotech Blasts Off (Page 15) Business Facilities - July 2008 - 2008 Rankings: Biotech Blasts Off (Page 16) Business Facilities - July 2008 - 2008 Rankings: Biotech Blasts Off (Page 17) Business Facilities - July 2008 - 2008 Rankings: Green with Envy (Page 18) Business Facilities - 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July 2008 - Metro Spotlight: Inland Empire, CA (Page 44) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Metro Spotlight: Inland Empire, CA (Page 45) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Food Processing Sites: Providing Sustenance as Well as Nutrition (Page 46) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Food Processing Sites: Providing Sustenance as Well as Nutrition (Page 47) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Food Processing Sites: Providing Sustenance as Well as Nutrition (Page 48) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Food Processing Sites: Providing Sustenance as Well as Nutrition (Page 49) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Sale-Leasebacks: Easing the Credit Crunch (Page 50) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Sale-Leasebacks: Easing the Credit Crunch (Page 51) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Corporate Moves: Georgia (Page 52) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Corporate Moves: Georgia (Page 53) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Metro Spotlight: Albuquerque, NM (Page 54) Business Facilities - July 2008 - Advertiser Index (Page 55) Business Facilities - 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