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Passive House is “In” in 2017

Green Building Law Update

New York City Zone Green thick wall exclusion allows for up to 8 inches of wall thickness to be exempted from the calculation of floor area to encourage high performance buildings without decreasing the amount of usable space in the building, including Passive construction. Information is available from events@psssivehousecal.org.

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

BD+C

Washington, DC, offers an inclusionary zoning program that allows residential developers to build more units than would normally be permitted as long as eight to 10% of those units are affordable.

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How to Design for the Build-for-Rent Market

Pro Builder

To shed light on an optimal BFR design strategy, architecture and design firm BSB Design spoke with experts in Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas, four of the more active BFR markets. But in the build-to-rent space, it’s not economical or feasible to design a new product every time you go to a new market,” Krob says.

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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. CALIFORNIA. ENTERPRISE ZONES: Businesses located within the boundaries of an EZ are eligible for tax credits.

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

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SGICC will use the bulk of the D2PA funds to provide grants to PA-based small companies to demonstrate the feasibility of emerging technologies, or seed funds to test and help launch ideas, and to assist in market acceptance and growth of shale energy focused products or services. In January, Texas completed the last segment of the $6.8

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LOCATION FOCUS: Texas: Big Heart, Country, Business

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Texas also is home to six of the top 50 companies on the Fortune 500 list, third only after New York and California. expansion and is its largest operations office in North America outside of its Menlo Park, California headquarters. The Foreign-Trade Zone Program adds to Port Freeport’s appeal. And the U.S.

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