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Flagship Store Retail Construction: 3 Reasons Brands Still Build in a Flagship Location

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To Introduce New Concepts When it comes to debuting new concepts, a flagship store can be a smart strategy for introducing the business model to consumers. Our very first project with the brand was to relocate its original Chicago flagship store to Michigan Avenue in 2008.

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Our 2022 Builder of the Year, Van Metre Homes, Is Wired for Change

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or its design center, model homes, or 80,000-square-foot component manufacturing facility, and you’ll sense something very different about this builder. It was always one of his goals to have his own production facility,” says Brian Davidson, group president of the New Homes division, a goal realized before Al Van Metre’s death in 2008. “He

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Feature Story: Public-Private Partnerships – An Alliance For Progress That Works

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A new model of economic development involving public-private partnerships is helping drive economic revitalization, create jobs and transform aging central cities into vibrant, livable hubs of activity that attract new business, private investment and people. This economic development model has been fruitful for the region.

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BIM, Value Management, Life-cycle Cost Management

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According to Dainty, there is a “traditional of reflexivity in qualitative enquiry where researcher openly questioned the effectiveness of their research methods on the robustness of their results and debate the influence and effect that their enquiry has had on the phenomena that they have sought to observe” (Dainty, 2008). Cohen, et al.,

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FEATURE STORY: The Story Of Storage

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Since 2008, it has awarded more than $885,000 in grants to local schools and nonprofits. The service is available immediately in seven campuses: Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, New York, Northern Virginia, Boston, and Washington, DC. It also has helped implement a free, downtown Wi-Fi network in Goose Creek.

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LOCATION FOCUS: Indiana — More And More Roads Are Leading To “The Crossroads Of America”

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percent since 2008, those new jobs have triggered 9.5 Less than a day’s drive from New York, Chicago, St. The region is quickly becoming a national model for workforce collaboration. A drive of just seven hours gets you to destinations including Chicago, Pittsburg, Atlanta or Memphis. Start with the county’s location.

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FEATURE STORY: Nothing Matters More Than Talent

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AIDT’s workforce selection and training processes have achieved the world’s first ISO 9001:2008 certification for a state-funded workforce training program. The program, which is run by Louisiana Economic Development (LED), was launched in 2008 to help attract and develop workers for new projects. Champions Emerge in Wheeling.