Site Selection and Location Consulting Services

McCallum Sweeney Consulting (MSC) provides site selection and incentive negotiation services to leading companies worldwide. Our services benefit firms seeking locations for new facilities or relocating operations, as well as those managing location decisions for competitive expansions or selective contractions. In addition, MSC’s services provide value to firms faced with the complex mix of location decisions resulting from planned or executed mergers and acquisitions.

MSC brings a proven process that provides a solid framework for a defendable location decision, while at the same time allowing for the flexibility necessary to adapt to changing company elements, as well as to discoveries in the field.

MSC Employs a Three-Phase Process:

> Phase I establishes the project and its decision criteria, identifies and evaluates the search region, and ultimately determines a set of candidate communities.

> Phase II is field evaluation of the candidate communities with considerable time spent in each location assessing physical, operating, and community conditions. Phase II concludes with identification of finalist communities.

> Phase III involves finishing negotiations with the finalist communities, including closing property and incentive negotiations. Phase III concludes with a location decision and announcement of the selected location.

In the course of this activity, MSC will identify and evaluate a wide array of factors, including, but not limited to the following:
• Sites and buildings
• Site development
• Utility infrastructure (availability, cost, reliability)
• Transportation infrastructure
• Demographics
• Labor markets (availability, quality, costs)
• Training resources and delivery
• Education (primary, secondary, higher)
• Taxes
• Financing
• Quality of life (e.g., medical services, housing availability and cost, etc)
• Leadership and political climate
• Incentives

Extensive financial analyses are performed over the life of the project so that in the end all strategic and operational aspects of the location decision have been identified and addressed.