Word: yaseen
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...relocate, figures that those regions will account for 55%-60% of the new manufacturing employment over the next year. One reason: more than half of all new plant construction and expansion has been going on in those areas instead of the populous North and East. Fantus Chairman Leonard Yaseen expects the industrialization of the Sunbelt to accelerate "because as the plants in the Central States and the Northeast become more and more antiquated, management will think twice before constructing facilities in those areas...
...Manhattan but have moved or soon will move a significant part of their staffs out of town. The figures, compiled by TIME with the aid of the Fantus Co., a leading adviser to companies considering relocation, show that the exodus from Manhattan is speeding up ominously. Fantus Chairman Leonard Yaseen says that "three-quarters of the top 200 companies in New York City are either moving or thinking of moving...
...Norton Simon Inc. The traffic in companies, though not in overall employment, is mostly outbound. One reason is New York's living costs, which are 9% higher than Chicago's, 18% more than Denver's and 26% steeper than Houston's. But says Leonard Yaseen, chairman of Fantus & Co., a corporate site-seeking adviser, "I don't think economics has much to do with it. The intangibles have at least as much weight." Among the intangibles that corporations cite: rising crime, transportation snarls, the fact that young people are not as attracted to New York...