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Texas Tall

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A photo of elderly residents at an assisted-living facility sitting in waste-deep water waiting patiently for evacuation was an unforgettable coda for the catastrophe that enveloped the nation’s fourth-largest city, a sprawling metro area that is as large as the entire state of Connecticut and home to 5 million residents.

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Pulse: 08/13/2012

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Banking & Credit Crisis. --> Companies. Connecticut Winstanley Enterprises LLC is planning to build an office building at 100 College St. Minnesota 8/29 Saint Cloud State University is seeking bids from construction management-at-risk firms to renovate Shoemaker Hall, a dorm. Gulf Oil Spill. -->. Building Types. Sustainability.

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Homeland Insecurity

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DHS is spending $616 million “in support of the President’s Climate Resilience Initiatives,” including $400 million for flood mapping “essential to educating communities about flood risk.” ” So if it’s raining when a terrorist is driving across the U.S. As this is being written, the U.S.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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CAPCO financing, an alternative to conventional bank financing, can accommodate a slightly higher risk profile and provide a more flexible structure for growing businesses. Many small businesses that are not able to receive traditional bank financing can get support through CEF. CONNECTICUT – updated for 2014.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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CAPCO financing, an alternative to conventional bank financing, can accommodate a slightly higher risk profile and provide a more flexible structure for growing businesses. The COMMERCIAL FISHING AND AGRICULTURE BANK provides loans to fishing, tourism, natural resources and agriculture-based projects.

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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Awards

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Connecticut-based Turbine Controls, Inc. Today, more than 500 of the businesses directly impacted by the storm have reopened, retaining more than 4,500 jobs in Joplin that had been considered “at risk.” Farm Bureau of Indiana, Regions Bank, The Indianapolis Star, Kite Realty Group, LDI, Ltd., Reilly Industries, Inc.,

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