Business Facilities - March 2009 - (Page 6) FIRST WORD group media building inspiration. ™ Tennessee’s Trifecta Published by Group C Media, Inc. 44 APPLE STREET, SUITE 3 • TINTON FALLS, NEW JERSEY 07724 (732) 842-7433 • (800) 524-0337 • FAX (732) 758-6634 VOLUME 42 NUMBER 2 www.BusinessFacilities.com EXECUTIVE PUBLISHER TED COENE tcoene@groupc.com C hattanooga is a challenging city for copy editors. It’s one of those names that always sends you back to the archives for a quick spell-check. Not anymore. Thanks to some hyperactive officials in southeast Tennessee, the Volunteer State’s fourth-largest city is much more than a scenic backdrop for Lookout Mountain. It is one of the hottest economic development locations in the United States. As reported in this month’s issue, the Chattanooga area scored its second huge project coup of the past eight months with the announcement that Wacker Chemie AG, the German chemical giant, will build a $1-billion polysilicon plant in Bradley County about 20 miles east of the city. The Wacker announcement comes on the heels of last summer’s celebration in Chattanooga over its selection by Volkswagon as the site of a new auto assembly plant, marking VW’s return to U.S. manufacturing after a 20-year hiatus. Not to be outdone by the festivities in eastern Tennessee, the folks up in Clarksville, TN weighed in recently with their own mega-development, also involving a chemical plant: Hemlock Semiconductor’s $2.5-billion investment in a facility to produce the materials used to make solar panels. In this deep winter of ice-cold economic news, it is reassuring to know that at least one state is keeping the hot stove burning. Kudos to Tennessee! EDITOR IN CHIEF JACK ROGERS jrogers@groupc.com SENIOR EDITOR BILL TRÜB btrub@groupc.com PRODUCTION MANAGER LUANN RATHEMACHER luann@groupc.com ART DIRECTOR MEGAN KNIGHT mknight@groupc.com SENIOR WEB DESIGNER GLADYS ROLDAN groldan@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, COLLIERS TURLEY MARTIN TUCKER; HOWARD R. SILVERMAN, PRESIDENT & CEO, THE CAI GLOBAL GROUP INC.; MARK SWEENEY, SENIOR PRINCIPAL, MCCALLUM SWEENEY CONSULTING; JERRY SZATAN, PRINCIPAL, SZATAN & ASSOCIATES 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: 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 C MEDIA, INC. 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 2009 BY GROUP C MEDIA; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PROUD MEMBERS OF: Jack Rogers jrogers@groupc.com 6 MARCH 2009 http://www.BusinessFacilities.com
Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Business Facilities - March 2009 Business Facilities - March 2009 Contents First Word Snapshots Corporate Moves: Tennessee Deciphering High-Tech Hubs Industry Focus: Biotech/Pharmaceuticals The Lone Star State Continues to Burn Brightly Pennsylvania is Holding Its Own Corporate Moves: Florida Metro Spotlight: Findlay, OH Advertiser Index Ask the Expert Business Facilities - March 2009 Business Facilities - March 2009 - Business Facilities - March 2009 (Page Cover1) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Business Facilities - March 2009 (Page Cover2) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Business Facilities - March 2009 (Page 1) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Contents (Page 2) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Contents (Page 3) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Contents (Page 4) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Contents (Page 5) Business Facilities - March 2009 - First Word (Page 6) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Snapshots (Page 7) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Corporate Moves: Tennessee (Page 8) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Corporate Moves: Tennessee (Page 9) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Deciphering High-Tech Hubs (Page 10) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Deciphering High-Tech Hubs (Page 11) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Deciphering High-Tech Hubs (Page 12) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Deciphering High-Tech Hubs (Page 13) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Deciphering High-Tech Hubs (Page 14) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Deciphering High-Tech Hubs (Page 15) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Deciphering High-Tech Hubs (Page 16) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Industry Focus: Biotech/Pharmaceuticals (Page 17) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Industry Focus: Biotech/Pharmaceuticals (Page 18) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Industry Focus: Biotech/Pharmaceuticals (Page 19) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Industry Focus: Biotech/Pharmaceuticals (Page 20) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Industry Focus: Biotech/Pharmaceuticals (Page 21) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Industry Focus: Biotech/Pharmaceuticals (Page 22) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Industry Focus: Biotech/Pharmaceuticals (Page 23) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Industry Focus: Biotech/Pharmaceuticals (Page 24) Business Facilities - March 2009 - The Lone Star State Continues to Burn Brightly (Page 25) Business Facilities - March 2009 - The Lone Star State Continues to Burn Brightly (Page 26) Business Facilities - March 2009 - The Lone Star State Continues to Burn Brightly (Page 27) Business Facilities - March 2009 - The Lone Star State Continues to Burn Brightly (Page 28) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Pennsylvania is Holding Its Own (Page 29) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Pennsylvania is Holding Its Own (Page 30) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Pennsylvania is Holding Its Own (Page 31) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Pennsylvania is Holding Its Own (Page 32) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Pennsylvania is Holding Its Own (Page 33) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Pennsylvania is Holding Its Own (Page 34) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Corporate Moves: Florida (Page 35) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Metro Spotlight: Findlay, OH (Page 36) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Metro Spotlight: Findlay, OH (Page 37) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Metro Spotlight: Findlay, OH (Page 38) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Advertiser Index (Page 39) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Ask the Expert (Page 40) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Ask the Expert (Page Cover3) Business Facilities - March 2009 - Ask the Expert (Page Cover4)
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