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This Company Wants to Rent Out Tiny Homes in Your Backyard

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Would you sign a 99 year lease to rent out your backyard? According to Fast Company, backyard cottages are relatively common in California, but rent out at market rate. The long term agreement will allow the backyard home to remain even if the homeowner moves out. Backyard cottages are already relatively common in California.

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Transforming shopping malls into 21st century neighborhoods

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With the State of California encouraging housing development in commercial zones, these projects are prime opportunities for alleviating the housing crisis. Rarely are mall properties owned by a singular entity and they come with handfuls of long-term lease agreements with retailers.

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Business Report: GEICO Expansion Brings 1,000 New Jobs To Katy, TX

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Execution of the state’s agreement is contingent upon finalization of a local incentive offer as required by program criteria. The oil and gas exploration and production company is separating to create a new company that will oversee its existing California assets as the state’s largest natural gas producer. Premier Newman and Gov.

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Two Tech Companies Growing In Central Indiana

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PactSafe , a legal-focused technology company, plans to invest $575,000 to lease and equip a new office in Indianapolis. In addition to its Indiana office, PactSafe also maintains a part-time presence in California through its partnership with Acceleprise, an entrepreneurship accelerator operating in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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Interstate 40 is the major east-west thoroughfare reaching from North Carolina to California that runs through Arkansas. Dassault Falcon Jet, the region’s top manufacturing employer and the French company’s largest facility in the world, renewed its lease at the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport through 2040.

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FEATURE STORY: High-Tech Hubs Are Moving To Their Markets

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California-based software development company, Smith Micro Software, has established a significant presence in the Pittsburgh region. Ceva will be the ninth company in the KBA facility, which is 80 percent leased. 2 in renewable energy attractiveness, just behind California. IceCure Medical is leasing space in GCIC’s 50,000 sq.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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The thriving high-tech industry in Austin has made Texas the second-largest semiconductor job market after California, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. The Apple facility in Texas will become one of four global operations centers for the tech giant outside of its California HQ. According to Maryland Gov.

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