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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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4 in Best Business Climate, Texas—all have been perennial contenders for BF’s top honor, the State of the Year Award: Texas and Tennessee each have won the award three times since it was created in 2007; Virginia was the 2018 SOTY; Alabama won BF’s top award in 2017. “An OPPORTUNITY ZONES ARE HERE. Cory Booker of NJ and Sen.

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STATE FOCUS: Florida – Let The Sun Shine

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The state will cross the trillion dollar threshold for nominal GSP in 2017. Florida’s economy, as measured by GSP, will have grown tenfold in size from 1980 to 2017.”. Since taking office in 2011, Governor Scott has moved aggressively to cut business taxes and costs, pay down debt and streamline the regulatory environment.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Enterprise Zone Credit or Exemption: The Alabama Enterprise Zone Act (Act. The program provides state and local tax incentives and non-tax incentives to businesses and industries located within Alabama’s Enterprise Zones. May not have closed or reduced employment elsewhere in Alabama in order to expand into an enterprise zone.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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ENTERPRISE ZONE CREDIT: To stimulate growth in depressed areas of the state, Alabama offers certain tax credit incentives to business that locate or expand within a designated enterprise zone. The increase is to occur in equal increments over a four year period, between 2014 and 2017. percent, between 2014 and 2017.

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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When Clark Ivory returned with his family to Salt Lake City from a three-year church mission in the eastern European countries of Moldova and Romania in 2017, he could have easily allowed Ivory Homes, the company founded by his father, Ellis, almost 50 years earlier, to continue without him. Mike Beirne, Senior Editor.

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North Dakota Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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New Venture Capital Fund: The New Venture Capital Program is an innovative financial program that provides flexible financing through debt and equity investments for new or expanding businesses in the state of North Dakota. The term of the loan will vary depending on the loan purpose with a maximum of 15 years.

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Cover Story: Global Biotech Report

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Another Bio-incubator is called Eurobiotec Brussels and sits in the Erasmus Industrial Zone in the capital. The headquarters is set to be completed in 2017. They may also take advantage of the UCL support structure: SOPARTEC and its Vives investments fund, the Research Management Office of UCL and Vésalius Scientific Park.

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