Energy co-op opens a website.Touchstone Energy Touchstone Energy Cooperatives is a cooperative federation composed of over 600 utility cooperatives in the United States that collectively serve 6 million homes and businesses. Touchstone was founded in 1998. Cooperatives, one of the nation's largest networks of electric utilities, has launched a free internet resource site, which lists thousands of available sites and buildings across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The new website, called www.SitesAcrossAmerica.com, has a searchable electronic database of more than 3,200 properties in 24 states, with more being added every day. The website was designed to allow real-estate professionals to evaluate hundreds of properties across the country quickly. "With just a few mouse clicks, site selectors will find a world of potential sites open to them," said Jim Bausell, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Touchstone Energy Cooperatives. "Even better, SitesAcrossAmerica.com is free and confidential, so a site selector (programming) selector - 1. In Smalltalk or Objective C, the syntax of a message which selects a particular method in the target object. 2. An operation that returns the state of an object but does not alter that state. can conduct a search privately, with no registration fees or hassling phonecalls. It's a one-stop-shop tool that every real estate professional should add to their tool kit today." Electric cooperatives are member-owned utilities that serve 75% of the U.S. landmass land·mass n. A large unbroken area of land. landmass Noun a large continuous area of land landmass and 84% of U.S. counties. Cooperatives serve both traditionally rural areas and many of the fast growing regions A growing region is an area suited by climate and soil conditions to the cultivation of a certain type of crop. Most crops are cultivated not in one place only, but in several distinct regions in diverse parts of the world. around metropolitan hubs like Atlanta, Denver and Minneapolis. Consequently, many of the properties listed on www.SitesAcrossAmerica.com are located in the nation's boom areas for commercial and industrial business growth. Visitors to www.SitesAcrossAmerica.com can search properties by zip code zip code System of postal-zone codes (zip stands for “zone improvement plan”) introduced in the U.S. in 1963 to improve mail delivery and exploit electronic reading and sorting capabilities. , city, state, acreage, square footage and price. Typical site descriptions include information on utility services, proximity to major transportation hubs, zoning status, price, a site photograph and local contact information. More than 55 sites listed on www.SitesAcrossAmerica.com have been sold during the website's six-month testing period. "Electric cooperatives have decades of experience siting and serving businesses of all sizes, from national retail chains to large industrial concerns to small manufacturers," Bausell said. "We urge real estate professionals to take full advantage of this powerful new tool to help them locate the ideal building or site for their next project." |
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