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COVER STORY: Shovel Ready Sites Are Growing From The Ground Up

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are implementing site certification programs called “shovel ready”—meaning that the site is primed and ready for economic development. The company plans to open its facility in January 2014. Construction began this year with completion of the first manufacturing buildings planned for 2015. Cloud, Minnesota.

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INDUSTRY FOCUS: Points of Entry for Cash-Rich Cargo

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Developers, investment interests and supply chain executives remain optimistic about our nation’s seaports,” said John Carver, head of JLL’s Ports, Airports and Global Infrastructure (PAGI) group, “Influenced by an evolving maritime logistics industry, global and trade transformations such as the extension of the Panama Canal and growth of U.S.

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

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Sophisticated planning is required to account for never ending variables that help to keep supply chain costs down and quality and profits up. There are networks with 120,000 miles of major railroads, more than 25,000 miles of commercially navigable waterways and more than 5,000 public-use airports. It is comprised of 3.9

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Food Processing: Generating Growth for Good Eats

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It is conveniently located adjacent to Canada’s largest airport, Toronto Pearson International, as well as home to CN’s Intermodal Railway Terminal, the largest intermodal railway terminal in Canada. Harrison County in South Central Indiana boasts an outstanding transportation logistics network. Brampton is a people-powered economy.

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FEATURE STORY: Logistics Clusters Are Jobs Magnets

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The Memphis International Airport is home to the FedEx Superhub. The corridor’s multi-modal transportation infrastructure offers a wide range of distribution options: Flint’s Bishop International Airport is at its core, offering continental and international flights. This trend may be speeding up plans of some U.S.

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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards

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million-square-foot building located on 83 acres near Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. Becoming the largest tenant at the expanded portion of the Clarksville-Montgomery County Corporate Business Park, Hankook Tire plans to build its facility on 469 acres over the next five years. Within 10 years, Urban plans to construct another 1.1

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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A $1-billion commitment of tax breaks and grants from the state and a comprehensive planning process have helped spur the renaissance and reduce the region’s unemployment rate to 5.5 percent, the lowest since 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AnC Bio is the group’s first venture into the biotech sector.

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