Abacoa- If you plan it, they will come

Thursday, September 8, 201110:45 am – 12:00 pm

You Want to Make Us do WHAT????

Jupiter supported New Urbanism

1995 Charrette Master Plan

What is Workplace?

or

Block or Campus?

Workplace: Market Meets

New Urbansim

 

•  Labor

Real Estate

•Infrastructure conditions (Utilities, roads, telecommunication etc.)  

Transportation Access

 Vendor/Supplier Impacts

Educational System

 Overall Operating Costs

 Business Interruption Risk

Environmental Considerations

 

 

• Political Stability

• Governmental Factors

•Incentives (to offset start-up costs and reduce operational costs)

• Quality of Life ***

Thirteen Site-Selection Factors

“Quality-of-life issues typically have a much greater impact on projects that are trying to attract certain types of employees. ……

Companies planning information technology, life sciences, research and development, and corporate headquarters projects tend to rank

quality-of-life issues higher on the list than those planning other types of projects.”

“Quality of life can become the deciding factor later in the selection process, especially for an industry that must attract quality talent and

young professionals.……..”

Happy Employees: “It’s been well documented that companies perform better when their employees are happy in the workplace. Quality-of-life factors add value to a company’s

bottom line.”

When Quality of Life Closes the Location Decision Deal…

From: When Quality of Life Closes the Location Decision Deal September 2011 Mark Crawford (Dec/Jan 10)

Hi-tech Workers want Quality of Life

KEY ATTRIBUTES FOR A HIGH QUALITY OF LIFE RANKING

• High-performing schools (public, private, and post-secondary)*

• Affordable housing in a variety of good neighborhoods*

• Efficient public transportation

• Short commute times

• Low crime rates *

• High-quality healthcare

• Spouse employment opportunities

• Competitive child-care costs

• A good balance of lifestyle amenities — shopping, entertainment,

sports, weather, alternative employment opportunities 

• Diversity of housing and educational assets and diversity of

cultural and recreational choices.

Area Development On Line

Variety of Housing

Safe neighborhoods

Shopping

sports

Entertainment

Parks

Education

Mecca v. Abacoa

Abacoa –Nucleus for the North County Bioscience Cluster

Scripps

New Urbanism = New Business G4S

Planning will require more than a “pretty face” in today’s

competitive market

If you plan right, they will come!