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

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Converting downtown office into multifamily residential: Let’s stop and think about this 0 dbarista Tue, 07/11/2023 - 10:44 Multifamily Housing Is the office-to-residential conversion really what’s best for our downtowns from a cultural, urban, economic perspective? Or is this silver bullet really a poison pill?

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SPECIAL REPORT: Site Location Factors For Automotive Suppliers

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The Recession of 2008-2010 was particularly difficult for both OEMs and their suppliers. During the 2008-2009 period, annual U.S. Table 1 lists the top ten state concentrations of automotive employees, as well as the number of supplier companies and jobs. Table 1 : Recently Announced OEM Expansions.

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

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Inspired by New Urbanism design principles, the complex will include an office building that will house the new IBM Services Center, as well as a separate, 11-story residential building with 95 river-view apartments and nine separate town homes. The BRAF-affiliated Wilbur Marvin Foundation (WMF) will own the office building.

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Architecture Firm Billings Rebound Modestly in August

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Conditions also continued to deteriorate at firms with a residential specialization, in spite of moderate growth reported by those firms earlier this year. Multifamily residential projects also account for a significant share (15.1%) of projects stalled due to problems obtaining financing. ► 2008. education, 9.3%

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

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Since 2008, the U.S. The Marcellus Shale Formation, which contains nearly 500 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas, has seen more than 7,700 new wells drilled in Pennsylvania since 2008. According to TSF, since 2008, the amount of solar powering U.S. What a difference five years can make. million American homes.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Private Activity Bond: Issued to finance construction and equipment purchases associated with industrial and manufacturing facilities, residential rental projects, facilities for the furnishing of water, sewage and solid waste facilities and more. Interest on private activity bonds may be exempt from federal income tax for most bondholders.

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LOCATION FOCUS: Texas: Big Heart, Country, Business

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Drilling activity, extraction and production in the shale have expanded rapidly since the first well was drilled in 2008. It is hopeful that the feasibility study will indicate, as have preliminary analyses, that benefits of the channel project should exceed its $300 million cost.

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