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Incentives Won’t Be Enough to Keep Buyers in the Game as Housing Shortage Grows

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As a result, builders are applying for fewer construction permits, and 87% are planning to slow down their pace of construction in the year ahead. Metropolitan areas like Boise, ID; Austin, TX; Phoenix; and Salt Lake City are slowing the most, she says. New-Home Sales.

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Innovation Is Thriving In Arizona

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Boasting a population of nearly 500,000, Mesa is the 36th largest city in the United States and second largest in the Phoenix-Mesa metro area. AZLabs is located adjacent to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport making it a strategic location for unmanned and autonomous vehicle research and operations.

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Business Facilities’ 2019 Metro Rankings Report

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Atlanta, GA; San Antonio, TX and Phoenix, AZ are the top-ranked large metros in this flagship category, respectively. AUSTIN, DENVER, NEW YORK CITY HAVE TOP STARTUP ECOSYSTEMS. Austin, TX, Denver, CO and New York City topped our metro leaderboard for Startup Ecosystems. ATLANTA NO. 1 IN GROWTH POTENTIAL.

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Court Rules All NAHB Members Eligible for Loan Forgiveness

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NAHB Policy Brief: A court challenge resulted in a ruling that eligibility requirements were wrongly applied to PPP loans for homebuilders; top markets for single-family and multifamily construction permits during the past 10 years. 1 (363,067 permits), Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington at No. 2 (292,219), and Austin-Round Rock at No.

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FEATURE STORY: Semiconductor HUBS – Macro Growth from Micro Chips

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In Austin, TX, Samsung is already at work in a $4 billion plant expansion in Austin. AUSTIN, TX: CHIP CAPITAL. The mobile technology revolution has swept over the nation and is helping Austin’s semiconductor industry thrive. Austin was one of those along with Silicon Valley. for every $1.00 Samsung Electronics Co.,

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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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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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1 home builder in building permits and construction value, scaring off every large-volume, multistate production operation that dared enter Ivory’s Wasatch Mountain lair. 1 home builder in terms of building permits and construction value and reaching the milestone, in 2019, of 20,000 homes sold (right). Photos: courtesy Ivory Homes.