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Converting downtown office into multifamily residential: Let’s stop and think about this

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contagion from abandoned office buildings will spread to retail (no daytime shoppers), restaurants (no daytime diners), and street life (no happy hour!), He has over 25 years of industry experience and joined Nadel in 2008. In his slate.com article, “The Ticking Time Bomb in America’s Downtowns,” Henry Grabar explains, “.

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The Road to Recovery in Detroit

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In 2008, Chrysler rolled the dice and told the world it would invest $1.8 The Jefferson North facility seemed an unlikely candidate in 2008 for this largesse. Cerberus, an equity player who had acquired a majority stake in Chrysler from German auto giant Daimler-Benz in 2007, went into bankruptcy in 2009.

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PSMJ Resources Blog: MHC says starts rise in August; housing is.

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MHC says starts rise in August; housing is mixed; retail remains weak; industrial gains. The outlook for retail construction remains bleak. whose sprawling stores are laden with extra space, is aggressively marketing itself as a place for other retailers to set up shop,” the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

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Team USA Goes for Gold

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The key ingredients for the impending FDI feast can be summed up in the “three E’s”–energy, education and equity–which, combined with the world’s largest consumer market give the U.S. financial system after the global fiscal collapse of 2008 has made the U.S. a compelling case for attracting FDI.

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Business Report: Garden State Growth Zones Aim to Lift New Jersey’s Cities

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NJEDA approved a Grow New Jersey award for WebiMax, a leader in online and digital marketing services that was founded in 2008 in Mt. Several senior executives as well as finance, accounting, retail operations and other administrative groups are among the 175 jobs to be relocated to the Garden State. Laurel, NJ.

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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. North Dakota Development Fund: Provides flexible gap financing through debt and equity investments for new or expanding primary sector businesses.

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Are There Lessons From the Great Recession for the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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economy into its worst quarter since the Great Depression, with unprecedented declines in gross domestic product, employment, consumer confidence, retail spending, and just about every other metric. . . In 2008, when Hodges was working through the housing crisis in Florida for builder K.