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Cracking the code of affordable housing

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The commercial and residential buildings in Bayfront are surrounded by green space, with two easily accessible forms of public transit. Washington, DC, offers an inclusionary zoning program that allows residential developers to build more units than would normally be permitted as long as eight to 10% of those units are affordable.

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19 Different Types of Slabs in Construction | What Is a Slab

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Flat slabs are utilized in parking decks, commercial buildings, hotels. This sort of slab is primarily utilized at the doorway of hotels, Malls, Restaurants, Commercial Buildings permanently graphic view & to put in artificial lighting. Permits and Property Value. Advantages of Flat Slab . Where Waffle Slab are Used?

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When office-to-residential conversion works

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Zoned business districts cease to function after 6 p.m.” Eliminating single-use zoning so people can live throughout the city, where all of its districts thrive at all times, is a “net positive,” he says. This zoning provides opportunities to create a profitable development.”

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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards

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The Arizona team worked closely with Maricopa County’s air-quality department to obtain the required permits for Apple. Mesa also processed the required permits expeditiously. “This new plant will make components for Apple products and it will run on 100 percent renewable energy from day one.”

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Alabama Economic Development Loan Program: The state has more than 2,300 commercial lending sources with assets of over $61.3 The Alabama Economic Development Loan Program is used to work with commercial lenders for projects in non-entitlement communities. Enterprise Zone Credit or Exemption: The Alabama Enterprise Zone Act (Act.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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The capital credit is used only after all other deductions, losses or credits permitted under Titles 40 and 41 of the Code of Alabama 1975. ENTERPRISE ZONE CREDIT: To stimulate growth in depressed areas of the state, Alabama offers certain tax credit incentives to business that locate or expand within a designated enterprise zone.

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FEATURE STORY: Racing To Be Ready – U.S. Ports Prepare for Post Panamax Era

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Its key feature is highly automated 30+ lane transfer zones and automated live e-gates. Charleston is one of 17 commercial “Strategic Ports” in the U.S. Rendering of the Bayonne Bridge, as it will look after it is raised to permit passage of Post-Panamax container vessels. It is slated to open in the fall of 2013.