Certified Sites: Will They Remain In Demand?
December 7, 2021
By Mark R. Smith, Contributing Writer
When the trend began, site certification was a simple marketing exercise by economic development organizations (EDOs). It was intended to apprise, and hopefully lure, end users and developers to a given jurisdiction by sharing information about just how great a piece of land was for a real estate project.
Then, as markets do in times of technological change, an evolution occurred: the importance of site certification grew from the early days of providing a relatively condensed dossier of actionable facts t...
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