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The impact of office-to-residential conversion on downtown areas

BD+C

They hold the key to facilitating real change in dealing with rising vacancy rates and reinvigorating downtowns and business districts. Further financial assistance may be available through Tax Increment Finance for projects that meet specific criteria such as a minimum of 30% affordable housing. The opportunity for cities is massive.

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Home Builder Success and the Fragility of Good Things

Pro Builder

Finance and Zebras . Over time, the concept has migrated through multiple disciplines including finance, marketing, product development, ecological risk assessment, and even cultural anthropology. . Their default option is to play to their strengths and walk away from deals that don’t leverage their abilities. No faking it.

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Feature Story: Aiming For The Top In Utah

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

With large swaths of Utah classified as both mild and heavy desert (as well as the famous salt flats) and recent experience dealing with droughts, an important focus of the strategic planning effort will be devoted to ensuring that a state with one of the fastest-growing populations in the U.S. has ample water resources.

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Dennis Calvert, the right architect for Design-Build

The Korte Company

He did return every summer to work on a permit as a union carpenter with his father. Vernon Distribution Center over a weekend and hand-delivered the proposal to Walgreens’ Headquarters in Chicago on Monday morning to edge out five other competitors that had a two-week head start. . Company management noticed Dennis’s prowess.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Pennsylvania’s decision to consolidate hundreds of bridge projects into a single procurement financed by a bond fund managed by a new Public-Private Partnership (P3) should serve as a model for the rest of the country. The $722-million project is the largest private-activity bond financing of a public-private partnership in the U.S.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

Business Facilities

Apple’s selection of Austin as the site for its new $304-million Operations Center was the Bronze Award winner in Business Facilities ’ 2012 Economic Development Deal of the Year competition. The region’s Certified Sites program allows land to be certified as shovel-ready for any company looking to break ground on new development.

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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Awards

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Less Taxing,” aired for six months in the NY/NJ/CT, Boston and Chicago markets. In 2012, the Alliance visited 178 companies to assist with access to capital, workforce training opportunities, permitting issues and site location assistance. The campaign, built on the tagline of “Life. headquarters to Newark.

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