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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. While the population of Arkansas is just under three million, the state offers access to a market of 103 million people within a 550-mile radius of the state. population.

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COVER STORY: Editors’ Location Picks

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Motorola Mobility, Plantation, FL. Airbus Lands In Mobile. Mobile, AL already is a hub for heavy manufacturing. Its largest manufacturers include shipbuilding giant Austal USA (2,500 employees), ThyssenKrupp Steel USA (1,700), ST Mobile Aerospace (1,300) and BAE Systems Southeast (850). defense contracts.

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SPECIAL REPORT: The Carolinas Are Bringing The Business

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In our wireless world, mobile and broadband networks create economic opportunities for health care, manufacturing, education, transportation and public safety, and virtually every other economic section.”. Oconee County, which is midway between Atlanta and Charlotte, boasts the second lowest personal property tax impact in South Carolina.

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INDUSTRY FOCUS: Points of Entry for Cash-Rich Cargo

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Two mobile harbor cranes. Louis, Dallas, Cincinnati, and Atlanta, providing overnight trucking access to more than half of the nation’s population. PROJECT OVERVIEW. $30 30 million TIGER grant is supporting the project. The Port of Stockton received $13.5 Port of Stockton purchased: a. Two barges (cell guides being installed).

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

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After several years in Atlanta, he currently resides in Tampa, Florida, with his wife and two sons. Deke is a 1973 graduate of Virginia Tech and holds a BArch, he has done post graduate work at the National Defense University. Russ Manning , Department of Defense Health Systems. Chris Moor, Chair. Healthcare BIM Consortium.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

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After several years in Atlanta, he currently resides in Tampa, Florida, with his wife and two sons. Deke is a 1973 graduate of Virginia Tech and holds a BArch, he has done post graduate work at the National Defense University. Russ Manning , Department of Defense Health Systems. Chris Moor, Chair. Healthcare BIM Consortium.

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COVER STORY: 2012 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards

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Already home to world-class research labs at Georgia Tech and the Centers for Disease Control, Metro Atlanta lures another high-tech gem in Baxter’s $1.3-billion The Metro Atlanta plant will be Baxter’s third in the Southeast; it also has plants in North Cove, NC, and Cleveland, MS. billion bio-pharma investment. Honorable Mentions.

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