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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama are the top-ranked states, respectively, in BF’s flagship Best Business Climate ranking. Bill Lee has cited TN’s business-friendly environment in several recent project announcements. North Carolina, Colorado and Virginia topped the chart in BF’s flagship Economic Growth Potential ranking.

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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

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Locations are bringing higher ed resources and high-tech businesses together to plant the seeds for market-ready advanced technology at incubators and innovation institutes, and to create the STEM-savvy workforce that will fill these new jobs. Chicago is rising up in ranks to become the next big place for technology innovation.

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Workforce Training: Engineering A Skilled Workforce

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Here’s the good news: most of the states (and the federal government) got the memo (Workforce Training is Job One) and they are moving aggressively to put in place innovative and highly effective workforce training programs that put forward-thinking businesses and higher education resources on the same team. VIRGINIA’S TRADITION OF TRAINING.

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Business Facilities’ 2019 Metro Rankings Report

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With a diverse population and innovation-driving ecosystem, Atlanta offers a wide range of opportunities for technology companies looking to do business in the U.S. BlackRock chose the region for its new Innovation Hub comprised of 1,000 jobs. It’s an environment where people are looking to enhance and augment ideas.

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Logistics: On the Road, Water or Rails…or in the Air — AGAIN

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billion investment by Dominion Virginia Power, which constructed a cutting-edge technology power plant. The rich timber resources make it home to Virginia-Carolina Wood Products that supplies both domestic and international markets with Class A lumber. Source: Brunswick County, Virginia IDA). Dominion Power Plant groundbreaking.

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

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However, technology companies are realizing that to be truly global, they need to tap innovation at more locations and in new high-growth markets. To make downtown Pittsburgh more attractive to technology-driven, innovative companies, the local real estate community has developed Larimer’s Bakery Square and the proposed Bakery Square 2.0,

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Housing, Industrialized: Your Road Map to Off-Site Construction

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To assist those interested in making the journey, Pro Builder and the Pittsburgh-based Housing Innovation Alliance initiated a comprehensive “IC Road Map” with the help of a working group consisting of home builders, suppliers, researchers, and other industry experts. We can’t keep banging our heads against the wall.

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