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Officials soliciting development ideas for 93 acres near Los Angeles airport

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The parcel, zoned for recreational space and offices, is part of a 340-acre project that will include retail stores and other amenities.

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State of the Construction Industry: June Roundup

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AGC Uses Targeted Ads to Try to Prevent Work Zone Crashes. A survey from the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) found that 54 percent of highway contractors reported crashes in their work zones within the past year. The AGC aims to increase work zone safety this summer with targeted advertising.

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Expanding the exterior footprint

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In fact, officials of New York City are beginning to re-examine its zoning to ensure green spaces and parks are accessible and equitably distributed throughout the urban landscape. It also creates a new building zone called the ‘mid-doors,’ a term coined recently by Transsolar’s Erik Olsen, in his series “What is Indoors?”

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Innovation Is Thriving In Arizona

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AZLabs is located adjacent to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport making it a strategic location for unmanned and autonomous vehicle research and operations. Zoned mixed-use/commercial. Strong workforce within a 45 minute commute zone. Strong workforce within a 30 minute commute zone. Zoned mixed-use/commercial.

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

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Through the Enterprise Zones Program business and industry can realize state incentives such as Job Creation Grants and Real Property Investment Grants, while also realizing a number of local tax and other incentives. Midwest Airports. billion pounds of cargo landing at the airport. 50 percent of all U.S. million tons).

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Rising Export Volumes Spur Inland Port Development Across the U.S.

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“Inland ports are becoming a critical part of the nation’s import/export cycle and the country’s competitive position on the world stage,” said John Carver, Head of Jones Lang LaSalle Ports Airports and Global Infrastructure (PAGI) group. which will become the first inland port to serve the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

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British ‘jihadi rapper’ who posed with a severed head and was suspected of being ISIS ‘Beatle’ Jihadi John is arrested in Spain by anti-terror police

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Police said Abdel Bary ‘had spent several years in the Syrian-Iraqi conflict zone and has both very peculiar personality traits and an extremely violent criminal profile, which caught the attention of the European police and intelligence services’ .

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