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Fed Economist Forecasts Uptick in Single-Family Construction

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The housing market may be headed straight for a post-pandemic downturn, but according to Jordan Rappaport, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, an uptick in single-family home building could soon follow. million, but a number of challenges remain for regional builders across the U.S., NAHB reports.

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

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This means that new hot spots of tech innovation are springing up in places like Kansas City, the site of Google’s new high speed Google Fiber network, and Pittsburgh, a new hotbed for innovative tech start-ups. Greater Kansas City: Silicon Prairie. We’ve found this in Kansas City. Rick Perry in a statement.

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Ford Offers Gas When Diesel Is Too Much | ENR: Engineering News.

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Banking & Credit Crisis. --> Companies. near Kansas City. With a list price starting at $53,345 plus destination fees, Ford estimates that the average price difference for a diesel F-650 would translate into $8,300 more on the window sticker. Gulf Oil Spill. -->. Building Types. Construction Methods. Sustainability.

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Tom Lyerla, the standard bearer

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The out-of-town job took him to Kansas City for a restaurant chain called Chutes, which delivered food by pneumatic tube—just like at the bank drive-through, but for hamburgers, fries or their signature “Chute the Works” sandwich. “I I built the very first one. And the rest, as they say, is history.

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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. CALIFORNIA – 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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Tale of Two Cities

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Whenever we think of Atlantic City, we also think of Kansas City, and not just because AC’s acronym rhymes with KC’s. On one of those trips down the Garden State Parkway, a favorite old tune started playing on the car radio: Fats Domino’s unforgettable warbling of “ I’m Going to Kansas City.”