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Industry Focus – Retail: Less Than Six Degrees of Separation

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Retail accounts for more than $2 trillion in total GDP impact with consumer spending accounting for more than two-thirds of the U.S. The Tarpon Point Resort at Marina Village is home to a number of upscale retail shops and restaurants. By the BF Staff From the March/April 2016 Issue. Credit: City of Cape Coral). percent.

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BUSINESS REPORT: Carolinas Put Out A Welcome Mat for Business from Far East

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billion in South Carolina since 2006. Department store retailer Belk Inc. McCall Farms ships its products to retailers, foodservice and industrial customers throughout the United States. Hitt noted that 147 Japanese-affiliated companies have invested $1.6 They employ 12,500 workers. billion to $14 billion.

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Less Is More In New England

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The strategy approved in 2006 encouraged major changes to process and policy, and also focused on making incremental improvements. Waterstone Retail of Needham, MA has a 500,000-square-foot center underway with Phase 1 now open and Phase 2 approved by the city. As the joke says, “How do you eat an elephant? The NH Dept.

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North Dakota Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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The primary candidates for this program are businesses that create new wealth for the state and provide new jobs outside of the retail sector. Loan funds may be used to finance real estate, machinery and equipment and for the purchase or leasing of equipment.

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Global Growth Surge in Southwest Louisiana

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Generally these sites are leased. The public will build to suit and issue bonds for buildings and lease them back to the business. The owners generally are open to the sale or lease of their property and some will consider build to suit options. Essentially, the region is in the midst of a ‘boom.” Other projects, like the $9.6

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North Dakota Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Flex PACE will allow communities the ability to provide assistance to businesses that would not meet the current requirements of PACE, such as: jobs retention, technology creation with no new jobs, retail, smaller tourist businesses and essential community businesses. Land does not qualify for an exemption.

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

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Nebraska is the only all public power state in the country, which means wind resources in the state must be sold to Nebraska utilities which have all of the retail customers in the state. percent of the electricity supplied to retail customers in the state be from qualified renewable energy resources by 2021.