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How Did First-Time Buyers Fare Last Quarter?

Pro Builder

Despite low, low housing inventory and rising home prices, first-time buyers accounted for 31% of home sales in the fourth quarter of 2020. Compared to the third quarter, this is a slight dip in price, allowing buyers to take advantage of homes in four metro areas: St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Buffalo, N.Y.

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Georgia Ports See Surge In Private Investments, Record Cargo Volumes

Business Facilities

We’re adding market share through organic growth and the addition of new accounts, and we’re building the new infrastructure necessary to continue processing this cargo with world-class efficiency.”. More efficient rail offerings will position Savannah to rapidly increase service to an arc of inland markets, from Atlanta to Memphis, St.

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How to plan your warehouse layout

The Korte Company

They protect inventory and, when built right, improve on the efficiency with which that inventory is received, sorted, retrieved and shipped. The 124,000-square-foot office and warehouse expansion for The Dial Corporation in St. Louis, Missouri. The value of these facilities cannot be overstated.

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SPECIAL REPORT: Two Train Cars Forward, Three Cargo Ships Back

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Sophisticated planning is required to account for never ending variables that help to keep supply chain costs down and quality and profits up. Logistics incorporates the complexity of integrating information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling and packaging. This accounts for 8.5 trillion in 2011, a 6.6

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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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Major market centers in the region include: Memphis, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, New Orleans and St. Interstate 55 links eastern Arkansas to St. The sector accounted for 24 percent of total export value in Arkansas. That represents 42 percent of the total U.S. population.

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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

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Slow economic growth has kept the percentage low, but the supply chain sector has made great strides in productivity, asset utilization and inventory management in the past three years.” Labor Department forecasts that truck drivers will account for 43 percent of the growth in logistics jobs in the coming years. Spending in the U.S.

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

Business Facilities

percent in 2014 due to stronger shipment volumes and inventory carrying charges that were up 2.1 The existing warehousing inventory in DuPage County’s sub-market has over 180 million square feet of rentable building area, making it one of the top two markets in the Chicagoland area. percent in 2013 and 8.3 percent in 2014.

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