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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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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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Major market centers in the region include: Memphis, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, New Orleans and St. Interstate 40 is the major east-west thoroughfare reaching from North Carolina to California that runs through Arkansas. That represents 42 percent of the total U.S.

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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

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From New Mexico, it’s possible to reach Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Utah within one day’s trucking, and California markets in two days. The cost of transporting goods from the ports of California, for example, also is reduced by utilizing the railroads that come directly into New Mexico.

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40 Under 40: Champions of Construction 2023

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Stephen Brooke Digital Delivery Manager, Burns & McDonnell Kansas City, MO Stephen Brooke is a Digital Delivery Manager at Burns & McDonnell in Kansas City, MO. She is able to see digital solutions beyond features while maintaining a practical approach to the onsite implementation.

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LOCATION FOCUS: Texas: Big Heart, Country, Business

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Pauken is the chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission. Texas also is home to six of the top 50 companies on the Fortune 500 list, third only after New York and California. expansion and is its largest operations office in North America outside of its Menlo Park, California headquarters. billion, up 20.7 percent from $206.9

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Appalachian Regional Commission and Delta Regional Authority Grants: Federal-state partnerships that work with the people of 37 Appalachian counties in Alabama and the Mississippi Delta region’s twenty Alabama counties to create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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Applicants must meet the same qualification criteria as Advantage Arkansas and must be approved by the Arkansas Economic Development Commission. CALIFORNIA. The research activity must be conducted in California to qualify for the credit. Any unused credit may be carried forward for a period of nine years.

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