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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Massive solar-power facilities have come online in the California desert; forests of wind turbines have been hooked up to grids in Iowa and West Texas. In addition to providing equity, CI’s team works with each pre-seed company to offer advice, support and introductions to powerful connections that help develop a commercially viable business.

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Are There Lessons From the Great Recession for the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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expanded into markets in Iowa, Alabama, and South Carolina, and became a shareholder of American Southern Homes after it acquired Grayhawk Homes in November 2019. . “If There have been four “official” recessions since 1980, and Jeff Benach, co-principal at Lexington Homes , in Chicago, has endured them all.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

Business Facilities

Cerberus, an equity player who had acquired a majority stake in Chrysler from German auto giant Daimler-Benz in 2007, went into bankruptcy in 2009. It took a federal bailout and the acquisition of Chrysler by Italy’s Fiat to keep the third-largest U.S. automaker from going the way of the dinosaurs.

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