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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

Business Facilities

Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama are the top-ranked states, respectively, in BF’s flagship Best Business Climate ranking. Nevada and Alabama rounded out the top five in Economic Growth Potential, followed by Utah, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri and Mississippi. Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report.

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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Awards

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The largest project in the community’s history, the West Haymarket redevelopment project, was sup- ported financially by the Partnership through the passage of a bond issue that will construct a new 16,000-seat arena. That research supports the trade shows and targeted retail and hospitality efforts of the city.

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FEATURE STORY: Nothing Matters More Than Talent

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Worker shortages are found in skilled trades such as heavy equipment mechanics, construction, truck drivers, healthcare, and certain jobs in the IT sector to name a few. Alabama’s AIDT (Alabama Industrial Development Training) is a major force for workforce training in the state. In the U.S., AIDT Builds Skilled Labor in AL.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

Business Facilities

The new facility, which will increase Apple’s workforce in Austin to more than 6,700, will serve as the primary operations nexus for the company in the Americas outside of Apple’s global headquarters in Cupertino, CA, centralizing accounting, human resources, sales, marketing and finance.

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

Pro Builder

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. . . Should future sales decline even further, Benach says he will conserve cash by pushing back construction starts. I’m a developer.

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SPECIAL REPORT: The Carolinas Are Bringing The Business

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Our state could very well become the aerospace hub, when you bring all these suppliers in here to supply not only Boeing but possibly Airbus in Alabama,” he said. Retail Business in Charlotte and for its Global Technology & Operations organization in Cary. million into its new Mecklenburg and Wake County campuses.

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Tiny overall gains, mixed sectoral results mark latest construction jobs, spending data

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Construction employment was essentially unchanged in May. To be precise, construction employment in May totaled 5,529,000, up by 2,000 from April and exactly equal to the May 2010 total but down by 2.2 Construction spending in April totaled $765 billion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, the Census Bureau reported on Wednesday, 0.4%