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Deal of the Decade

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As this is being written, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas, Alabama, Utah, California and Washington reportedly have thrown their hats into the ring in what is shaping up as the biggest economic development contest in recent memory. Jay Inslee and Everett Mayor Ray Stephenson to resume talks. Far West U.S. Plains U.S. Rocky Mountains U.S.

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Innovation Is Thriving In Arizona

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With more than 1,200 aerospace and defense companies in Arizona, it is easy to understand why PriceWaterhouseCoopers ranked Arizona number one for aerospace manufacturing attractiveness. Mesa has one of the nation’s most unique cybersecurity assets—Arizona Laboratory for Security and Defense Research (AZLabs). After leasing the U.S.

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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. Arkansas’s railroad infrastructure includes three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway, and Kansas City Southern Railway. Interstate 55 links eastern Arkansas to St.

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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. Names Innovation Hubs.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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Most of the states that were clobbered by the housing market collapse, including Florida, Nevada, California and Oregon, made it into the top 10 in our Employment Recovery Leaders ranking. They were joined by Rust Belt giants Michigan and Ohio, which rode the wave of a resurgent U.S. automotive industry. Herbert told us. Far West U.S.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

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He retired December 2006 after 30 years as a Designer and Director with the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Deputy CIO at the Army Research Laboratory, and Chief Architect for the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment in supporting DoD’s 540,000 facilities. from Stanford University.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

He retired December 2006 after 30 years as a Designer and Director with the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Deputy CIO at the Army Research Laboratory, and Chief Architect for the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment in supporting DoD’s 540,000 facilities. from Stanford University.

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