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Green Building Bonds as a Game Changing New Source of Capital

Green Building Law Update

Department of Energy''s Better Buildings Alliance as an inaugural Green Lease Leader, leading the market by incorporating lease clauses that help overcome market barriers and align tenant and property owner interests to save energy in commercial buildings. exclusively for green building.

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Can Solar Gardens Grow Jobs?

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

For developers, these shared solar arrays create a new market from the estimated 85 percent of residential customers who can neither own nor lease systems because their roofs are “physically unsuitable” for solar or because they are renters.

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

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They also will be eligible to give property tax abatements for new development, allowing cities like Camden to spur development and compete with Philadelphia for private-sector jobs and residential growth. One NJ option is a leased facility in Bridgewater; 274 jobs would remain in the state and 550 jobs would be created. Christie said.

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Construction Leads – So Many Leads, So Little Time!

Construction Marketing

We’ll identify other national construction lead services, regional lead services, (local) contractor/remodeler lead services, government lead services, and finally other lead services including equipment lease and architectural specification directories. With more than 20 years in the residential construction. Leads Smeads.

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PACE in Maryland is Not Keeping Pace

Green Building Law Update

In 2008 I said Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) loans “ could be bigger than anything in U.S. real estate since the invention of the glass window.”. But today, despite Maryland having enacted a PACE enabling law in 2014, only one PACE loan has closed in the State. By any measure, one is not an overwhelming success.

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

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The CEO Council of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance was formed in 2008 as a totally private sector funded association of CEOs and senior business leaders to market and promote the Greater Fort Lauderdale area as a premier location for corporate and international regional headquarters.

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