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Leading the Home Building Industry: Pro Builder's 2021 Forty Under 40

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Chelsea Timmons , 33, VP of Community Experience, TRI Pointe Homes, Austin, Texas. Education • BA, Business Administration, The George Washington University • MDes, Real Estate Development and Finance, Harvard University. Education • BA, English, Secondary Education, University of Texas at Austin. Alex Akel, 29.

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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The genesis for The Pines at Midvale was The Alley Flat Initiative (TAFI), a group based in Austin, Texas, that Clark Ivory and his daughter Abby, managing director of Ivory Innovations, visited in 2019 as a candidate for the annual Ivory Prize program. The prize generates ideas Ivory Homes actively applies to its own operations.

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COVER STORY: 2012 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards

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The nominees for Business Facilities’ 2012 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards competition reflected a diverse cross-section of growth strategies, most of which are built on a foundation of new manufacturing capacity. Entered By: Austin (TX) Chamber of Commerce. Americas Operations Center.

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FEATURE STORY: High-Tech Hubs Are Moving To Their Markets

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Some of the locations already are well-known for developing the next generation of technologies, such as Austin, home to Dell, Apple, Facebook and Google, and Tucson, with its hotbed of solar technology innovation. Austin: A Tech Hotbed Grows in the Southwest. Samsung’s total investment in Austin now exceeds $13 billion.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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Austin, TX: On Top, Still Rising. For the past couple of years, Austin, TX and Baton Rouge, LA have been duking it out for the top ranking in our flagship metro Economic Growth Potential category. Austin is now one of the nation’s top emerging high-tech cities, with more than 120,000 people employed by around 4,400 technology firms.

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State Focus – Utah: Consistently Excellent

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To this end Utah offers highly successful post-performance refundable tax credits—economic development tax increment financing (EDTIF) incentives—to companies that want to expand and those that would like to relocate to the state. The USBDC operates in partnership with the U.S. Salt Lake City is investing more in education.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

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A central element of the public-private partnership involved in securing the IBM center is the construction of a mixed-use, riverfront complex that will be developed by Commercial Properties Realty Trust (CPRT), a real estate investment trust that manages and develops property holdings of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation (BRAF).

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