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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama are the top-ranked states, respectively, in BF’s flagship Best Business Climate ranking. North Carolina, Colorado and Virginia topped the chart in BF’s flagship Economic Growth Potential ranking. Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report. TN TOPS IN BUSINESS CLIMATE.

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Housing, Industrialized: Your Road Map to Off-Site Construction

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Van Metre Homes , which builds 400 to 600 single-family homes per year in Northern Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia, manufactures walls, roof trusses, stairs, and doors from its own factory on 26 acres in Winchester, Va. Photo: courtesy Rog & Wilco Construction.

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Workforce Training: Engineering A Skilled Workforce

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VIRGINIA’S TRADITION OF TRAINING. Virginia has a longstanding reputation as a workforce pioneer thanks to programs such as the Virginia Jobs Investment Program (VJIP), which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2015. For example, Virginia was awarded $6.9 Terry McAuliffe (left) congratulates Eldor Corp. Since VA Gov.

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Business Facilities’ 2019 Metro Rankings Report

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Manufacturing currently accounts for 15 percent of all jobs in the region and remains the heart of West Michigan’s economy. Northern Virginia continues its reign as the nation’s leading data center hub, followed in the top five by Phoenix, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago and the Las Vegas/Reno region, based on net absorption of megawatts.

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Logistics: On the Road, Water or Rails…or in the Air — AGAIN

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billion investment by Dominion Virginia Power, which constructed a cutting-edge technology power plant. The rich timber resources make it home to Virginia-Carolina Wood Products that supplies both domestic and international markets with Class A lumber. Source: Brunswick County, Virginia IDA). Dominion Power Plant groundbreaking.

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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Rounding out the top five in Best Business Climate are Virginia, which is luring major government contractors to relocate their headquarters to the state (Northrop made the move, and VA is courting Lockheed); Florida, where Gov. Virginia maintained its leadership in our Economic Growth Potential category with a second-place finish.

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BUSINESS REPORT: Maryland — SSA’s New Data Hub Moves Forward In Urbana

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ODEC is a not-for-profit provider of wholesale power to 11 member distribution cooperatives in Maryland, Virginia and Delaware that serve approximately 1.2 As Maryland’s third-largest agricultural commodity, milk and dairy products accounted for $188 million in farm receipts in 2012. million people.