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Seeing What’s Next: Trends Impacting
Economic Development & Real Estate
Thursday, April 25, 2013
2:00pm-3:30pm EST
Presenters:
Steve Grable, SIOR, Jones Lang LaSalle
Ted Abernathy, Executive Director, Southern Growth Policies Board
Hosted by:
Dean Whittaker of Whittaker Associates, Inc.
in collaboration with the Pro Learning Lab

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Steve Grable
SIOR
Jones Lang LaSalle

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Steve Grable, SIOR
Global Supply Chain “Threads”
Interplay Between These Emerging Trends
and What They Signify

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More than real estate…
50.3%
21.8%
9.5% 7.8%
4.3% 2.7% 2.2% 1.2%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Transportation Inventory Labor Customer Service Rent Admin Supplies Other
Transportation, inventory
and labor typically
account for 80% of the
operating costs
Real estate typically
accounts for less than
5%
…Understanding the total operating cost picture is critical to maximizing value
Steve Grable, SIOR

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Steve Grable, SIOR
U.S. Trade Routes

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Steve Grable, SIOR
Global “Threads”
• Global Near Shoring
• U.S. Manufacturing
• Panama Canal Expansion
• Emerging Global Development in BRIC Countries
• Energy Shift to Natural Gas and Biomass

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Steve Grable, SIOR
The Threads Signify…
• Job Creation
• Automation and Technical Training
• Emphasis on Speed, Flexibility, Reliability,
and Efficiency
• Expansion of Logistics Clusters

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Steve Grable, SIOR
Multi-Modal Logistics Clusters
Ships
Trains
Trucks
Airplanes

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Ted Abernathy
Executive Director
Southern Growth Policies Board

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I Have Nothing
Profound the Say
…except, many of the
things we used to know
we knew, have changed
Think

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Why is it Harder To Compete?
 The economy changed
 The competition changed
 Locational factors changed
 The U.S. workforce has changed
 The talent demands changed
 Life cycles have changed
 Tools have changed
 Customer (talent & companies) demands/expectations changed
 Local leadership has changed
 The pace of change and everything else changed

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Demographic Shifts
Specialization
Intensifying Competition
Corporate Integration
Technology (Speed)
The Omni Customer
Natural Resources
Urbanization
Global Interdependence
Complexity
Changing InstitutionsRadical Decentralization
Community Resilience
The Talent Bar
Growth Future
15 of the Trends Changing Our World

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Coming Over the Horizon
1. Regionalism and clusters (places and companies tied together by
geography)
2. Return-on-Investment (mania & metrics)
3. Regulation
4. Return to rural worry
5. Real workforce reform (maybe)
6. Redefine priorities

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Summary
 Global Supply Chain Threads
 Global Near Shoring
 U.S. Manufacturing
 Panama Canal Expansion
 Emerging Global Development in BRIC Countries
 Energy Shift to Natural Gas and Biomass
 Trends Changing Our World
 Urbanization
 Global Interdependence
 Growth Future
 Complexity
 Corporate Integration
 Radical Decentralization
 Etc.

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Q&A
 Questions?

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Thank You!
 Steve Grable
 steve.grable@am.jll.com
 Dean Whittaker
 dean@whittakerassociates.com
 Ted Abernathy
 tabernathy@southern.org