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The Desert Comfort Experience Home: Navigating a Perfect Storm to Get Construction Underway

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The Desert Comfort net-zero energy home in the Arizona desert weathered its share of delays before construction even started, highlighting inefficiencies in building industry permitting and inspections processes—all exacerbated by the pandemic. The Desert Comfort Experience Home: Navigating a Perfect Storm to Get Construction Underway.

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Opportunities Shine in Community Solar

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That is, most consumers of electricity are not, today, permitted to aggregate their purchase of photovoltaic generated electricity with others, except through their electric power utility. Today there are only a handful of community projects actually producing power in Arizona, Colorado, California and Maryland.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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With such a large inventory of bridges and a sizeable backlog of repair needs, we looked to innovative solutions to address the problem,” said PennDOT Secretary Leslie S. 3 Texas all exceeded 75 on the Index, followed by Maryland, Delaware, DC, Oregon, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Arizona Dept. for the first time.

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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.” There is no inventory tax, which is particularly advantageous to distribution companies. “Logistics costs as a percentage of GDP in the U.S.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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The capital credit is used only after all other deductions, losses or credits permitted under Titles 40 and 41 of the Code of Alabama 1975. 25 MILLION DEAL-CLOSING FUND: Arizona has taken a progressive position by offering attraction funds to companies meeting performance measures that benefit both the company and the citizens of Arizona.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Inventory is exempt from property tax. ARIZONA – updated for 2014. 30% reduction in Arizona’s corporate income tax rate, which decreases from 6.97% in 2014 to 4.9% Arizona Innovation Accelerator Fund: $18.2 Arizona Innovation Challenge: $3 million awarded annually ($1.5

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Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize

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This year’s finalists in the Policy & Regulatory Reform category include organizations focused on addressing historically lengthy processes, such as accelerating permitting and connecting LMI individuals to housing opportunities.