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The Road to Recovery in Detroit

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These have been dark days for Detroit. The manager will determine what he can salvage from a legacy of decline that has left Motown on the cusp of bankruptcy. billion in its Jefferson North plant on Detroit’s dilapidated East Side. In 2008, Chrysler rolled the dice and told the world it would invest $1.8

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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Your eyes weren’t deceiving you when you saw Detroit, MI sitting at No. Yes, we know that Detroit became the largest city in history to file for bankruptcy protection, a process the city is expected to emerge from this year. Airbus is the largest customer of the U.S. 10 in our Economic Growth Potential metro ranking.

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Phantom Payouts

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According to the Times’ logic, if Business Facilities’ parent company gets a variance from the Tinton Falls Zoning Board to expand our parking lot we are now responsible if New Jersey’s highway infrastructure collapses, resulting in massive congestion on Route 18.

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