Jerry Szatan
Owner
Szatan & Associates
Jerry Szatan has more than thirty years experience in site selection, economic development and real estate investing in the United States and abroad. He formed Szatan & Associates, a location strategy, site selection and economic development consulting firm based in Chicago, in 1998. Site selection projects include headquarters, R&D, manufacturing, distribution centers, call centers, back offices, and other corporate facilities for companies including: Boar’s Head Brand, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Davis Selected Advisors, Equiserve, First Card, GAF, Inc., Hewitt Associates, Nature’s Path, Organics LaGrange, Sun Microsystems, Union Pacific Railroad, Waste Management and Wausau Insurance.
He advises national, state and local economic development organizations nationally on economic development strategy, marketing, real estate development feasibility, labor markets and best practices. He was a senior manager at The Fantus Company, a regional economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and worked in real estate investment and public policy analysis.
Mr. Szatan writes and speaks widely on site selection issues and trends, labor market analysis and regional economic development. He has written about: labor market evaluation, demographic trends, facility consolidation issues, rural site selection, intermodal freight development, green economic development, cultural institution building and community image and other topics. He has spoken before many state, regional, national and international professional groups including the International Economic Development Council, Business Retention and Expansion International, National Association of Foreign Trade Zones, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes and other business publications.
He is a founding member and current President of the Site Selectors Guild.
He has a B.A. and M.A. in economics from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Szatan & Associates
Szatan & Associates, based in Chicago, consults in corporate location strategy and site selection and community economic development. Corporate services include site selection, relocation feasibility analysis, labor market evaluation, organizational structure and location strategy analysis, consensus building and incentive negotiation. Clients have addressed site selection issues arising from expansion, relocation and organizational change such as mergers and acquisitions, reengineering and consolidation. Economic development consulting services include: economic base analysis, target industry identification, development and marketing strategy, real estate development feasibility, best practice benchmarking, conducting seminars, facilitating board retreats and related activities.
Contact Info:
Phone: 312-440-9070
Email: Jerry@SzatanAssociates.com
Website: http://www.SzatanAssociates.com