Strategic Real Estate Solutions for Business

Keewaydin's Guide to Office Relocation - Peter Kitchak and Terri Smucker - (The Keewaydin Group, 1994) - A step-by-step "How-To" book of office relocation describing all of the planning, real estate and project management steps for a successful office relocation.  The book includes numerous forms to make the process trouble-free and to insure an "on-time on-budget" result. Some of the forms included are: Headquarters Planning Checklist, Lease Checklist, Sample Budget and Move Checklist. The book also includes a number of analysis tools in standard spread-sheet formats. All forms are provided on ready-to-use computer disks in stardard formats; i.e. Microsoft Word, Wordperfect, Lotus 123, Quatro Pro and Excel.

America's Future Office Space Needs - NAIOP - by Cognetics, Inc. -(KNOOP, 1990) - This study estimates the need for new construction of office space during the current decade.  The focus is not so much on how the real estate market has operated, but rather on how non-real estate factors have operated upon the real estate market.  Detailed numerical results for U.S. regions, states and metropolitan and rural areas are included.

Reshaping America - The Migration of Corporate Jobs and Facilities - (Ernst and Young, 1992) - A survey of leading corporate real estate executives, prepared to provide insight into the economic, social and political factors that determine the location decisions of U.S. corporations.  It seeks to identify those metropolitan areas and "growth corridors" which will benefit the most through 1995.

The New Corporate Frontier: The Move to Small Town USA -David A. Heenan - (McGraw-Hill, 1991) - This book is not about urban planning or relocation strategy; it is about the "power of business."  The author argues that power will shift from the headquarters concept to the periphery or mini-headquarters: U.S. companies that partake in this important trend will be better equipped to face the competitive realities of the 1990s and beyond.  He believes that "U.S. corporations are demonstrating a clear and growing preference to domicile in smaller, relatively remote townships - as part of a prevailing national trend to redistribute power - organizationally as well as geographically."