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Ford lays out plans for mobility innovation district in Detroit

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Any conversation about what’s wrong with urban America is bound to bring up Detroit at some point. That metro’s July 2013 bankruptcy—the largest municipal filing in U.S.

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Video: Ford To Redevelop Detroit's Michigan Central Train Station

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Redevelopment plans will be officially unveiled next week, Moroun said. The train depot which once handled all of Detroit's passenger train traffic has been vacant for thirty years, but fell into disrepair when Detroit's other transport industry gave people individual mobility.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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The expansion includes retrofitting their main fab to logic chips to supply mobile and tablet production. Along with new renovations, Samsung’s Austin Research Center also grew its presence with about 200 engineers dedicated to design and development of the latest technologies for mobile application processors. Samsung Electronics Co.,

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FLO Investing $3M In New Michigan EV Charger Plant

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With its first U.S. manufacturing facility, Canadian electric vehicle charging network operator FLO will create 133 jobs in Auburn Hills, MI.

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Business Report: Chicago Will Host Digital Manufacturing And Design Innovation Institute

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The lab’s computing technologies will include mobile computing, cloud computing, and high-performance computing, the city said. Three other innovation hubs are being built in Canton, MI near Detroit, Youngstown, OH and Raleigh, N.C. Promoting green jobs in our neighborhoods is also a key focus of the plan. MANUFACTURING PLANT.

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

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billion in venture capital was invested in emerging regional business and 300 ICT companies announced plans to add more than 8,600 jobs in the region from 2003-2011. The company, which develops software applications for mobile platforms, opened its R&D center in southwestern Pennsylvania in 2010. In the past decade, nearly $1.8

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GSA, LEED, USGBC, and Politics

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Campagna/Architecture + Planning PLLC. Breedlove Land Planning, Inc. Dover, Kohl & Partners Town Planning. Environmental Planning Associates. FILARSKI/architecture+planning+research. GR Planning. Mobile Janitorial & Paper Co. AlturaSolutions Communications. Benike, Inc. Banister Homes, Inc.