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COVER STORY: Advanced Manufacturing — Creating Jobs In 3Dimensions

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From the digitization of equipment processes and organizations to three-dimensional (3D) printing (also known as additive manufacturing) to materials with custom-designed properties, advanced manufacturing is helping to drive high-tech innovation, exports and the creation of well-paying jobs. The applications are seemingly endless.

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

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Louisiana will provide $14 million in funding over 10 years for expanded higher-education programs designed primarily to increase the number of annual computer science graduates. 1000 pound thrust; and Investments into new local capabilities including design, fabrication, and remote hot fire test capabilities for “Green” propulsion systems.

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Heroic Efforts In California

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The city is adjacent to the Santa Rosa Plateau Wilderness Preserve and Cleveland National Forest, which provide opportunities for mountain recreation. The City is home to three golf courses, with one designed by Jack Nicklaus and the other designed by Robert Trent Jones, Sr.—both

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

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DuPage County is in close proximity to North America’s largest inland port, the Centerpoint Intermodal Center, which provides direct access to the BNSF logistics park and the Union Pacific Joliet Intermodal Terminal. Bay County offers proximity to major markets, including Grand Rapids, Detroit, Chicago, Toronto, Cleveland and the Midwest.

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COVER STORY: Editors’ Location Picks

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The Port of Little Rock, on the Arkansas River is a designated Foreign Trade Zone and a United States Customs Point of Entry. This is why you’ll find that Greater Omaha and the state of Nebraska have been instrumental in developing incentive programs designed to increase business, investment and employment in the entire region.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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Semiconductor companies in Austin include chip designers Intel, IBM, and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and chip manufacturers Freescale Semiconductor, Samsung and Spansion. Services offered to these developing companies include work space and access to experienced mentors, programming and design. Together, they employ thousands.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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will be the team’s lead designer and Walsh Infrastructure Management will provide bridge maintenance over the life of the 25-year contract. The 558 bridges designated to be replaced in the first phase of the project are primarily crossings on smaller state highways, many in rural areas, rather than interstate bridges or large-river crossings.

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