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FEATURE STORY: High-Tech Hubs Are Moving To Their Markets

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This means that new hot spots of tech innovation are springing up in places like Kansas City, the site of Google’s new high speed Google Fiber network, and Pittsburgh, a new hotbed for innovative tech start-ups. Greater Kansas City: Silicon Prairie. We’ve found this in Kansas City. Rick Perry in a statement.

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Business Conditions at Architecture Firms Continue to Improve in December

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It also showed that commercial construction remains slow and residential real estate markets weak. Commercial leasing, however, is on the rise in Richmond, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Kansas City districts. Commercial/Industrial is up 52.7 Institutional is up 50.6 from 49.8, and mixed is up 47.8 from 50.5,

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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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Major market centers in the region include: Memphis, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, New Orleans and St. Arkansas’s railroad infrastructure includes three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway, and Kansas City Southern Railway. population.

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

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To meet demand, rails increased capacity with 1,300 new and rebuilt locomotives; 3,800 freight car purchases; and 700 new leased freight carts. Positive absorption remains in all industrial submarkets in DuPage County, showing continued strength and growth in the county in leasing, user sales and construction completions.

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Ports And FTZs: Enter With Less Risk

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Dyersburg/Dyer County has Dyersburg Municipal Airport, a general aviation airport, which can accommodate corporate and some commercial jets on its 5,700-foot long runway. Nine miles of rail, able to accommodate up to 250 railcars with rail served by Union Pacific, Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Kansas City Southern.

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Advanced Manufacturing: Manufacturing Gets Smarter, Faster

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Its infrastructure includes 20 interstates and major highways, rail networks, barge traffic on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, six commercial airports and dozens of regional airports. There are available sites appropriate for rail served, warehousing, distribution, manufacturing and commercial. Department of Energy for 2015, were 23.5

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State by State Incentives Guide

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The principal and interest on the bonds are paid solely from the funds derived from leasing or selling the facilities to the user company. Alabama Economic Development Loan Program: The state has more than 2,300 commercial lending sources with assets of over $61.3

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