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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

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Located in the heart of Illinois; in the great Midwest; within 200 miles of metropolitan areas of Chicago, Indianapolis and St. The Midwest Inland Port is served by a Foreign Trade Zone and provides local Customs Clearing, features that are being enhanced to provide a more robust set of service offerings.

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COMMUNITY PROFILE: Opportunity Knocks in Southwest Louisiana

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Rail service is provided by Union Pacific, Burlington Northern, Santa Fe and Kansas City Southern. Specific site details, such as zoning restrictions, title work, environmental studies, soil analysis and surveys, are assessed for compliance and authenticity.”. Interstate 10 and Interstate 210 are within a few miles of the port.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

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The Port of New Orleans, at the center of the world’s busiest port complex, took first place in Business Facilities’ Logistics Leaders (Ports) ranking in the magazine’s 2013 Metro Rankings Report. Houston (Zone 84) and El Paso (Zone 68) also shined in BF’s new ranking of top Foreign Trade Zones.

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Logistics: On the Road, Water or Rails…or in the Air — AGAIN

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Through the Enterprise Zones Program business and industry can realize state incentives such as Job Creation Grants and Real Property Investment Grants, while also realizing a number of local tax and other incentives. Chicago is the nation’s rail hub that connects six of the seven class one railroads. Asking rental rates are $4.70

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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Its key feature is highly automated 30+ lane transfer zones and automated live e-gates. The Obama Administration is moving forward with an aggressive federally funded program, first announced by the president in his 2013 State of the Union address, to create advanced manufacturing hubs in emerging growth sectors. Names Innovation Hubs.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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AnC Bio Vermont’s new 85,000-square-foot facility will feature a clean room that meets FDA standards, according to a report in Vermont Business Magazine. According to the magazine, Stenger and his pals already have raised $90 million to finance the new bio-med facility. AnC Bio is the group’s first venture into the biotech sector.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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billion Competitive Renewable Energy Zone transmission project (CREZ), capping nearly a decade of planning, upgrades and new construction along 3,600 miles of high-voltage transmission lines across central and West Texas. In January, Texas completed the last segment of the $6.8-billion Far West U.S. Great Lakes U.S. - Mid Atlantic U.S. -

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