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State Focus – Iowa: Growing Jobs As Well As Corn

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State Focus – Iowa: Growing Jobs As Well As Corn originally appeared on Business Facilities (BF) Magazine. If you think Iowa is about corn, you’re right. If, however, you think Iowa is all agriculture, you’re wrong. Much of what you know about Iowa is true. Iowa is a right-to-work state.

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

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Cloud’s Airport Industrial Park, an area certified as “Shovel Ready” under the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) Shovel Ready Site Certification Program. IOWA STARTS WITH MEGA SITES. Iowa’s program is one of the newest out there and is still under development. This is the first U.S.

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Feature Story: Shovel-Ready Sites – Fired Up, Ready To Go

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million aviation technical school is nearing completion at the Fairhope Airport Industrial Park, designated at an Alabama AdvantageSite. The latest designation happened in April, when the Fairhope Airport Industrial Park in Baldwin County received the AdvantageSite certification. ALABAMA SITES ARE READY FOR JOB-CREATING GROWTH.

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Cover Story: Global Biotech Report

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To facilitate collaboration across the four nodes and secure patient data, Farr Institute provides the physical and electronic infrastructure. Luxembourg’s air freight hub has been reinforced with the opening of LuxairCARGO‘s new dedicated Pharma & Healthcare Center at the capital‘s national airport.

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

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national security concern has been reducing our dependence on foreign oil. States poised for major growth in wind energy in coming years include Iowa, Kansas, Texas, Nebraska, North Dakota and Michigan. The Iowa wind energy industry supports up to 7,000 jobs, third in the country in employment related to the wind energy industry.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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focused on mobile, security and business operations software). This marks a transformative moment for Rochester that will fuel economic growth, create jobs and further secure this region’s place as the photonics capital of the nation,” said Gov. NJEDA previously invested in four Edison Partners funds. Andrew Cuomo.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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In 2001 the MRZ designation was renewed for the former Williams Air Force Base, now known as Williams Gateway Airport. Naval Air Facility in Goodyear, now known as Phoenix/Goodyear Airport, was designated as an MRZ. corporations whose sole activities in CT are trading stocks, securities or commodities of their own account.

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