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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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1,677 miles of Class 1 railroads. 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. population.

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

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T he Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ (CSCMP) released its 26th Annual State of Logistics (SoL) Report® in June 2015. Chicago is the nation’s rail hub that connects six of the seven class one railroads. gateway where all six major Class-One North American railroads can interchange traffic. supply chain.

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FEATURE STORY: Logistics Clusters Are Jobs Magnets

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He is an expert in systems optimization, risk analysis and supply chain management. The first is in the classic supply chain management activities: blue-collar jobs, like running warehouses and driving trucks. Two Class 1 and one local railroad are important parts of the transportation system. The current challenge for U.S.

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LOCATION FOCUS: Indiana — More And More Roads Are Leading To “The Crossroads Of America”

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Louis, Dallas, Cincinnati and Atlanta, Hendricks County provides overnight trucking access to more than half of the nation’s population—and local officials made access even more convenient with the locally funded, truck-friendly Ronald Reagan Parkway. Less than a day’s drive from New York, Chicago, St.

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

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Some states manage their programs in-house with a committee that reviews the application, but in Georgia we have a third-party site location consultant that handles it.”. Clearly there have been numerous large corporate brands who have benefited from our GRAD program,” said Robert Payne, Director of Account Management for the GDEcD. “By

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Seven Projects Land Deal of the Year Honorable Mentions

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The locations KP considered were Denver, CO and Atlanta, GA. The new 157,000-square-foot IT campus in Atlanta joins a string of technology announcements in Midtown, including NCR and Worldpay US. “We Nathan Deal recently announced that the company will add 800 jobs in metro Atlanta. AMAZON: BIG WIN FOR SAN MARCOS.

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

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The application process was managed locally by the Baldwin County Economic Development Alliance along with support from local entities. Site awareness for statewide project managers and Georgia Allies partners. Highlighted listings on the industrial site sections of major utility Web sites.

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