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Site Selection

... a process of enterprise development. It is the site location work that involves searching for a place to startup or expand the operations of an enterprise. It involves relocation work. It's important to places seeking economic development.

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Site Selection Begins with a Look A Global Regionsdasha search demonstration
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An Efficient Search Strategy for Site-Selection Decisions in an Expert Systemdashresource paper by A. Arentze, Aloys W. J. Borgers and Harry J. P. Timmermans from Geography Analysis (1996), Ohio State University Press ... This paper describes an algorithm for spatial search, which is used in an expert system for site selection. (It is) able to find the best site in the area of interest event when the number of possible sites is large and many decision criteria are involved ... (quote from the paper)
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The Essentials for Successful Site Selectiondashby Dennis Donovan, consultant (2007)
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A Field Guide to Site Selectiondash(basics are) ... traffic flow, market analysis, property size, zoning restrictions, among other factors. But, site selection considerations for a restaurant differ widely from those for warehouse properties. Learn the basicsdashand then venture into site selection for office, retail, restaurant, hotel, and warehouse properties ... Quote is part of an invitation by Mary Martinez. Manager, Library & Information Services, Realtor.org, the website of the National Association of Realtors (USA). The link inside the quote goes to an NAR list of resources.
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Food Engineering Magazinedasha quote from site selection consultant, Dennis Donovan, 6/02: ... deciding to build a new plant, revamp an existing facility or embark on an expansion may make you wonder if there aren't eight sides to every question. With a project that could take anywhere from three months to three years to complete depending on your need for speed or your preparedness for the process, organization is everything.
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Shifting markets, industry consolidation, and as every plant manager knows, a workforce able to handle the growing use of automated systems, all make site selection a challenge.dashmore quotes from Donovan in the .network resource archive.
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Site Location Assistance.comdashwebsite of The Network. See Search for a Location.
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The Site Selection Checklist: Prepare Your ApproachdashArea Development magazine article by Brad Lindquist and Phil Schneider, Deloitte Consulting GEO Group (11/08), Site Selection / Facility Planning Section. (search the publication for more information)
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site selection consultants listdashhow to find and contact a site location consultant
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Site Selection ResourcesdashUniversity of Washington, Department of Geography, Economic and Business Geography website ... a resource under sporadic development by a retired faculty member, Gunter Krumme
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Site Selection for the Technology Industrydash
2004 Trade & Industry Development magazine article by Angelos Angelou of AngelouEconomics. The magazine is published by Due North Media, a division of Due North Consulting, Inc, Birmingham, AL
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Site selector or site seeker?dashanyone doing the work is looking for a location
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navigation bar extensionaccess Site Location Assistance.comFMH = Find Me Here  websiteEDN = Economic Development Network websitedetails: personal search assistance available
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global region:

... a continent or other top tier geographic area. Examples are listed in following suggestions of keyword combinations useful in searching for places of interest ... suggestions intended as a first brush at showing how site selection location searches online work. Members of the target audience of The Network typically think, however, of site selection in terms of target regions within countries or beginning at the national-level. The Network mission is supported with demonstrations of keyword searches, such as what you see below. Access a sampling of many of them in the resource archive.

Copy and paste the text lines in italics to the search engine at the top of the page, keeping quotation marks intact where you see them. Try substituting the name of a country or location identity string for a for place within a country for the name of a global region.

Search the Web for ... Africa "site selection" contacts development
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Search the Web for ... Asia "site selection" contacts development
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Search the Web for ... Eastern Europe "site selection" contacts development
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Search the Web for ... Middle East "site selection" contacts development
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Search the Web for ... Middle Europe "site selection" contacts development
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Search the Web for ... North America "site selection" contacts development
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Search the Web for ... Oceania "site selection" contacts development
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Search the Web for ... South America "site selection" contacts development
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Search the Web for ... UK "site selection" contacts development
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Search the Web for ... Western Europe "site selection" contacts development

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A corporate location project is be defined as site selection done by or for a comparatively large enterprise that has an executive specifically assigned as an asset managerdashsee corporate real estate executive; specialized project work done by a site location consultant for a corporate client. A quote from consultant Robert M. Ady:

Corporate location projects occur infrequentlydashif not rarelydashand demand a broad expertise with very specific skills. Therefore, no matter how large, it’s unlikely your company incidentally has the qualified personnel crucial for bringing such a major endeavor to fruition in a timely and cost effective way.

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A site selector may be referred to as a site seeker but that would have to be consider slang use of the term. The question of what site seekers do has been asked, however: answer.

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Site location consultant is interchangeable with the term site selection consultant. Therefore, you may want to try both when searching the Web for, say, a list of consultants or directory of consultants ... a site selection directory. Copy and paste the following italicized text lines at the top of this page to Google the Web for lists of site selection consultants and their contact data. If you are a site selection consultant reading this, you qualify for a free listing in the global directory of contacts maintained by The Network ... APPLY

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