gain:
... profit received from the sales of an
asset. If it's a depreciable
capital
asset, gain has: (1)
recaptured depreciation, if any, and (2) capital
gain.
gap financing:
... a temporary form of financing in
advance of a permanent
loan. It is used to make up the
difference between a floor
loan (underlying
loan) and the total amount required.
general partnership:
... a form of business organization in
which partners are co-owners together partnership
geocode:
... a computerized process that uses
coordinates to uniquely identify a location from
a geographic descriptionsee
geocoding in
Wikipedia which also has a file
covering the geocode topic;
a marketing term indicating the demographic characterization
of a location.
geography of location:
... the surface of the earth, its features
and all that is constructed on it, in the immediate vicinity
of a place as
it is given consideration by a site
selector. Location intelligence is collected during
the course of a site
selection project. The enterprise
developer needs to, first, identify places
of interest,
then see to it that contact is made with location
data suppliers.
When area
and local development representatives are contacted, the
site selector should know to ask for economic
development data. Eventually,
intelligence is gathered is gathered through fieldwork.
The DMTI
Spatial website defines location intelligence with
the following quote: ... use
of location (geography) to isolate critical information, to validate,
integrate and enhance it, to support ... (the
business
decision maker)more from
www.dmtispatial.com. The Network offers its Site
Selection Directory as a tool for identifying contacts and gathering location intelligence.
getting underway:
... starting
up;
moving from a static point to one of motion; a state of
being in effect or being operative, e.g., getting a business
operation underway; moving on from a fixed point.
ghetto:
... often refers to a
densely populated, poor, area with run-down buildings and surroundings.
Answers.com
defines ghetto with discussion of ghetto history.
Two resource articles that may be of interest are listed
in
Site Location Assistance.com with links to them. One is
titled Rebuilding the Urban Ghetto: Few Economic Development
Programs Show Promise, the other, In The Ghetto,
brings out the expression, slum tourism, with explanation.
global city-region:
... one of the major urban areas of the
worldsee
the definitions of global
region.and city-region.
Find the identities of these large, densely
populated, megapolitan areas through links to resources
published in the .network librarylocation
section.
global region:
... a continent or other top tier of
geographic areas. For example, Australia is one of the
seven large land masses of
the earth classified as a continent that may be referred to
as a global region, except that there are smaller land
masses and islands of the southern, western, and
central Pacific Ocean, including the Malay Archipelago,
Melanesia, Micronesia, New Zealand, and Polynesia. The example
global region is more appropriately classified as Oceania but
you may see it as something
like global
region: Australia. For a list of links to demonstrations of searches
of the Web for global regions in the .network library, CLICK
HERE.
Global Registry of Contacts:
... a database that supports the .network missionCLICK
HERE for more explanation.
goal:
... a broadly defined objective or
a mission
statement. The Free Dictionary by Farlex has a
definition.
Also, see the definition of goal setting and an resource
article at Entrepreneur.com
grandfather:
... action taken to allow
the continuance of something that was permissible or accepted
under the condition that others
coming along after, although being the same, are denied.
graphic:
... a pictorial representation; a picture
that is so clear in what it shows that it leaves no doubt.
Various graphic elements are used in .network websites and
are, in many cases, hyperlinked
in order to aid navigation. See Appendix
H of the glossary
you are now using.
GRC ... Global Registry
of Contacts. GRC databasequestions/answers.
greenfield site:
... a real estate site not yet
developed; a fresh sitemore
in Brownfield
Redevelopment.
gross income:
... income in hand before adjustments or deductions
for expenses, such as taxes, depreciation or operating
expenses; top line of a financial or income statement as
opposed to the bottom
line. Gross income is top line income.
gross up:
... to increase an employee's gross
income,
especially as an incentive. For example, an enterprise relocation an
employee to a place where the cost of living is higher
may gross up pay as a compensation. There is risk
involved in grossing up to
offset a disadvantage
groundbreaking:
... the process of breaking the ground
(breaking ground) in order to begin, for example, to begin
construction after a site location project is completed;
a ceremonial event to signify start of construction (groundbreaking
ceremony); an innovative event or situation like nothing
done or experienced beforedefinition
in The Free Dictionary by Farlex. Related keyword: startup.
G7 country:
... one of a group of seven leading industrial
nations that began meeting annually in the mid-1970s to
address economic
and political issues that they and the rest of the world face. There
are four countries in Europe (G4). The G4 countries are France, Germany,
Italy, and the United Kingdom. The G7 countries include Canada, Japan,
and the United States.
group move:
... relocation of a number of employees.
Relocation organizations (sometimes referred
to as relos) specialize in providing group
move servicesmore group move information.
growth node:
... a high performing cluster of networked
enterprises in an area; a place within a location having
an ICT (Information/Communications
Technologies) network infrastructure, thus made-ready for
sophisticated enterprise and economic development.
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