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State Focus – Kansas: The Sunflower State Is Blooming and Booming

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Since the beginning of 2008, wind generating capacity in Kansas has more than tripled to 2,967 megawatts. The state also ranks in the top 10 in railroad miles, which helps facilitate second day freight delivery to every area of the continental U.S. That capacity places Kansas in the top 10 in the U.S., at 12,800 feet.

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

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via a 14,500-mile inland waterway system, six Class One railroads and a nexus of interstate highways, New Orleans is the port of choice for the movement of everything from steel, rubber and manufactured goods to commodities like coffee,” said Editor in Chief Jack Rogers. With its proximity to the center of the U.S.

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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. The location on I-20, rail served by Union Pacific and Foreign Trade Zone #165 makes Midland a prime location for distribution and manufacturing.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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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. Annual production at the facility has tripled since 2008. billion in its Jefferson North plant on Detroit’s dilapidated East Side. million-square-foot plant.

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

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The widening will allow large cargo ships that currently anchor in California and use trucks or the railroad to move goods to the East Coast to sail directly to New Jersey… To prepare for an influx of larger ships the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey plans to raise the Bayonne Bridge by 2016. .” ► 2008.

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Industry Focus: Food Processing – The Process Of Consistency

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1,677 miles of class 1 railroads. There also is Arkansas’s state-of-the-art railroad infrastructure comprising three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway and Kansas City Southern Railway. Union Pacific operates major yards in Little Rock and Pine Bluff, along with a locomotive repair facility in North Little Rock.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Funds may be provided for the construction and/or improvement of water lines & wastewater facilities, sewer lines, sewage treatment facilities, roadways, natural gas-line services, electric power services, railroad spurs, lighting, sidewalks and alternative power sources such as solar. Railroad Spurs. Natural Gas-Line Services.

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