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Innovation Is Thriving In Arizona

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Larger than Miami and Atlanta, Mesa is home to major operations for companies such as Apple, Boeing, Bridgestone, FUJIFILM, Mitsubishi, and Infineon. After leasing the U.S. MESA: STRATEGIC LOCATION FOR TECH COMPANIES. Recently, the metro area was ranked second in the nation for its tech sector job growth by CBRE. In 2016, U.S.

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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. Arkansas’s railroad infrastructure includes three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway, and Kansas City Southern Railway. That represents 42 percent of the total U.S. population.

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

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To meet demand, rails increased capacity with 1,300 new and rebuilt locomotives; 3,800 freight car purchases; and 700 new leased freight carts. Positive absorption remains in all industrial submarkets in DuPage County, showing continued strength and growth in the county in leasing, user sales and construction completions.

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COVER STORY: Editors’ Location Picks

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Union Pacific, ConAgra Foods, Peter Kiewit Sons, Inc. In fact, two of Greater Omaha’s Fortune 1000 companies are in this sector, Union Pacific and Werner Enterprises. Metro Atlanta: A Biomed Sector Keeps Growing. Cincinnati was followed closely by Atlanta at 96.2, and Mutual of Omaha. Parkinson, Jr., Cincinnati skyline.

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GSA, LEED, USGBC, and Politics

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If GSA, as the “landlord of the federal government,” were to require or use something else, it would add cost to the building and leasing process across the building industry. City of Atlanta, Office of Sustainability. Service Employees International Union. We are not in favor of adding cost. Chidester Engineering, PLLC.