DT #673 Navigating Uncertainty in Site Selection and Facility Investment
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DT #673 Navigating Uncertainty in Site Selection and Facility Investment

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 19, 202629 min
  • Interview
  • Business & money

What does the future hold for facility investment in an increasingly uncertain economy? In this episode of Develop This!, Dennis Fraise speaks with Jerry Szatan, a veteran site selection consultant with more than 35 years of experience, about the challenges and opportunities shaping investment decisions today. Jerry shares why many companies are taking a more cautious approach to expansion, navigating economic uncertainty, shifting market conditions, and evolving business priorities before committing to major projects. A major focus of the conversation is artificial intelligence and its growing role in site selection. While AI is helping...

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Welcome to Develop This, the number one podcast for economic and community development professionals with your host, Dennis Frazee. Welcome back to another edition of the Develop Us podcast and this week, another great special guest and that is Jerry Schotten and he is the owner of Schotten Associates.

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So, Jerry, welcome to Develop This. Thank you, Dennis. Good to be here. Yeah, hey, we have an interesting topic.

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You know, this is one of our shows in conjunction with the Site Selectors Guild, so I always ask the guild members to kind of give me a topic they want to talk about. And Jerry came up with a reluctant pessimist outlook on new facility investment. I thought, well, now that sounds like just a dandy topic.

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