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Business Facilities’ 2019 Metro Rankings Report

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West Michigan’s manufacturers are also supported by commercialization partners, including the Van Andel Institute, the Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center (MAREC), the University Research Corridor and MSU Business Connect. NYU-Poly: NYU-Poly started BEST, its first business incubator, at its downtown Brooklyn campus in 2004.

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SPECIAL REPORT: Site Location Factors For Automotive Suppliers

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Figure 2 : Vehicles Sold, 2004 — March 2013. A business and political community that does not support labor union activity. Before Nissan’s location of an automobile manufacturing facility in Smyrna, Tennessee in 1983, there were no automotive manufacturing facilities south of Kentucky. Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis.).

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COVER STORY: Editors’ Location Picks

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The Greenhouse accelerates technology commercialization with seed and early-stage companies; connects investors with its Investment Portfolio companies; expands established life sciences ventures and relocates biomedical companies to Pennsylvania. Twenty-eight Fortune 500 companies operate within the Little Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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The chamber led Opportunity Austin, a five-year effort launched in 2004 to promote investment resulting in job creation. Mobile landed a crown jewel of the commercial aircraft sector with Airbus’ decision to put its A320 final assembly line in the city. The Austin Chamber of Commerce has played an active role in the city’s success.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

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A central element of the public-private partnership involved in securing the IBM center is the construction of a mixed-use, riverfront complex that will be developed by Commercial Properties Realty Trust (CPRT), a real estate investment trust that manages and develops property holdings of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation (BRAF).

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Ports And FTZs: Enter With Less Risk

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Dyersburg/Dyer County has Dyersburg Municipal Airport, a general aviation airport, which can accommodate corporate and some commercial jets on its 5,700-foot long runway. Nine miles of rail, able to accommodate up to 250 railcars with rail served by Union Pacific, Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Kansas City Southern.

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

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FM Global is one of the world’s largest commercial and industrial property insurance and risk management organizations specializing in property protection. He served as past chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Technical Council on Computing and Information Technology and on various other ASCE technical committees.

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