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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. Google’s growth in the city has helped put Pittsburgh in the top tier of regional technology sites.

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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. Arkansas’s railroad infrastructure includes three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway, and Kansas City Southern Railway. population. million square feet.

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FEATURE STORY: Logistics Clusters Are Jobs Magnets

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According to site selection experts, logistics clusters are defined as an agglomeration of logistics activities in one geographic location. The Corridor is home to major multi-modal sites and industrial parks offering high quality/high value industrial buildings and acreage. Louis and Kansas City. Clair County.

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SPECIAL REPORT: Two Train Cars Forward, Three Cargo Ships Back

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In addition, by the end of 2012 a new interstate—I-69—will be open for traffic in southwestern Indiana, a brand new highway that opens up new territory for potential logistics facility sites. Low costs, trained labor, available sites and proximity to interstates and the eastern U.S. Major metros such as Dallas, Kansas City, St.

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INDUSTRY FOCUS: Soaring To New Heights

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Three Louisiana Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) schools, including one at Southern University at Shreveport, deliver technicians with required certificates and FAA certifications. The site offers a 24/7 control tower and a fire station and is designated a Foreign Trade Zone with customs and border security. Highway 165, U.S.

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COMMUNITY PROFILE: Opportunity Knocks in Southwest Louisiana

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There are good sites to develop because of our infrastructure which includes six ports, interstate highway, railway, airports, a large pipeline system, a loyal and productive workforce, and training facilities,” Swift says. Rail service is provided by Union Pacific, Burlington Northern, Santa Fe and Kansas City Southern.

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STATE FOCUS: Kansas Focuses On The All-Around

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Other workforce development initiatives include a credentialing initiative to help workers obtain industry recognized certifications and an engineering initiative which is increasing the number of engineering students in Kansas universities. A tax program that exempts all machinery and equipment from personal property taxes.

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