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Site Selectors and Economic Development Organizations Not Always on the Same Page

by Janet Ady | Nov 10, 2020 | Economic Development

At Ady Advantage embracing data is built into our mission. As such, we conduct industry-wide research to help inform our site selection clients and the economic developers who serve them. One key finding of our research was a distinct mismatch, or gap, in the...

As I See It | How COVID-19 Adds a New Dimension to the Site Selection Process

by Charlie Walker | May 21, 2020 | Economic Development, Site Selection

Back in the good old days – I’m talking about December before the coronavirus pandemic – site selectors thought about security mostly in two dimensions: natural disasters and man-made threats like crime or terrorism. Now a third dimension has entered our...

As I See It | Site Selection Industry Marks Its Centennial: Part 2 of 2 – The Later Years

by Janet Ady | Jul 22, 2019 | Economic Development

Note: This blog is the second of a two-part series about the site selection industry.  If you missed the first part, you can read it here. In the early 1990s, Fantus was acquired by Deloitte (now Deloitte’s Global Location Strategy group).  By this time, site...

As I See It | Site Selection Industry Marks Its Centennial: Part 1 of 2 – The Early Years

by Janet Ady | Jul 1, 2019 | Economic Development

The very first firm formally doing site selection, Fantus Factory Locating Service, was founded in Chicago in 1919, making this year the 100th anniversary of its founding. Coincidentally, during the 2019 Site Selectors Guild annual conference in Salt Lake City this...

AS I SEE IT | Key Themes from the Site Selectors Guild 8th Annual Conference

by Janet Ady | May 8, 2019 | Economic Development

I recently had the honor and pleasure of attending my eighth consecutive Site Selectors Guild conference. For those of you who may not be familiar with the organization, the Site Selectors Guild is the only organization that both represents the site selection...
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