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Georgia Ports See Surge In Private Investments, Record Cargo Volumes

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Including these announcements, this new activity will bring Savannah’s industrial inventory to more than 57 million square feet, of which less than 2 percent is currently available. The container ship MSC Chicago sails up river to the Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal near Savannah Ga. Louis, Chicago and the Ohio Valley.

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Shovel-Ready Sites: Ready To Hit The Ground Running

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SUEZ Water and Technology Solutions opened its analytical testing lab in the Tomball Business and Technology Park in 2018. The SUEZ facility, which opened in October 2018, is one of the world’s largest research and development analytical testing labs. million facility improvement project in 2018. Photo: Tomball). which is 6.9

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

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Jeff Benach, co-principal at Lexington Homes, in Chicago, says his team regularly examines financial scenarios to forecast what the numbers could look like if sales declined by 10%, 20%, and so on. There have been four “official” recessions since 1980, and Jeff Benach, co-principal at Lexington Homes , in Chicago, has endured them all.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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With such a large inventory of bridges and a sizeable backlog of repair needs, we looked to innovative solutions to address the problem,” said PennDOT Secretary Leslie S. Savannah is deepening its harbor to 47 feet from 42 feet, and aims to complete the project in 2018.

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