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Improving the Economy Starts at Home Two innovators bound by a common vision offer
sound advice on how to build a better future.
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McKinley "Mac" Conway
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"If you want to end the recession and jumpstart meaningful job creation, focus your efforts closer to home, say two leaders who have seen entire communities revived by sound planning and forward thinking," writes IAMC Executive Director Ron Starner. Read more. | |
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Four Special Programs at the Colorado Springs Professional Forum
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| Keith Stauber |
Colorado Springs Research Roundtable -
"A REIT Perspective on Industrial Corporate Real Estate"
This Research Roundtable will break new ground by being the first in the series to take a close look at the investor's perspective on industrial corporate real estate. The presenter will be Keith Stauber, senior regional director for First Industrial Realty Trust. Read more. |
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| LaRee DeFreece |
Existing Industrial Facilities: Reducing their
Environmental Impact
The Colorado Springs Professional Forum workshop (M1), entitled "Sustainability Metrics for Existing Industrial Buildings: Supporting Corporate Goals," draws together several themes important to IAMC members, including environmental sustainability, reducing the impact of existing facilities and looking at both of these issues from a facilities management perspective. Read more. |
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Negotiating with Skill and Confidence
Negotiation is such a fundamental and widely used tool that we employ it without even realizing we are doing so. Social beings have to negotiate to remain in society. Some of us are really good at it; others suffer from our weak aptitude for it. The [article's] epigraph makes a simple and powerful case for the value of improving our negotiating skills. IAMC is offering a class called "Negotiation Skills" on Saturday, April 24, at the Broadmoor in conjunction with the Colorado Springs Professional Forum. Read more. |
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| Pete Garra, director, real estate, for The Linde Group |
Past Chairs Address Peer to Peer, Associates' Program
A trio of corporate real estate heavy hitters, all past IAMC board chairs, will deliver the program for Peer to Peer, Associates-only, at the Colorado Springs Professional Forum. Rick Little, Weyerhaeuser’s director of real estate, Pete Garra, Linde Group’s real estate director, and Charles McSwain, former real estate executive with CSX, will brief the audience on what they’re seeing with business trends, incentives and site selection patterns. Plus, there will be plenty of time for those in the audience to ask questions. Read more. |
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People and Projects
To read about new and expanded facilities and other news on the IAMC companies listed below, click here.
- Boeing Company
- Hanesbrands
- The Linde Group
- Manitoba Hydro
- NAI Realvest
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- Pioneer Hi-Bred
- Siemens AG
- St. Jude Medical
- Univar USA
- Waste Management Corp.
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A Siemens steam turbine installed in Waigaoqiao, China
Photo courtesy of Siemens AG |
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Since the February IAMC Dispatch Newsletter, IAMC has added 5 new Active Members, 9 new Associate members and recorded 2 representative changes. See who's joined.
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There's already a long list of sponsors for the Colorado Springs Professional Forum, which takes place April 24-28. To see what organizations have invested in this opportunity, click here. If your organization would like to join this elite group, please contact Joy Pooler.
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