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Race to a Smart Future

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metro to fully integrate innovative technologies—self-driving cars, connected vehicles and smart sensors, among other advances—into its transportation network. Austin also aims for a “one-pass” multi-modal transit smartphone app that would allow travelers to book rides and pay for them. Allen’s Vulcan Inc.

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Kengo Kuma, the architect behind Tokyo’s new and controversial Olympic National Stadium

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The original stadium commissioned for the new national stadium was won by Zaha Hadid, the late Anglo-Iraqi architect, but after a public uproar over its extravagant cost, and the fact that the coveted project was awarded to a foreigner, Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister, was forced to overturn the decision in 2015.

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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For our eighth annual report, we’ve created nearly 50 categories in which we evaluate the leading states, metros and international players. For the past few years, we have issued a Metro ranking for our annual evaluation of aerospace/defense manufacturing leaders. California, Washington, Texas Soar In Aerospace.

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State Focus – Utah: Consistently Excellent

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Even Utah’s international airport is on top of its consistency game: last year Travel+Leisure ranked Salt Lake City International Airport the most punctual airport in America, the fifth such ranking for the airport since 2008. The Utah Film Commission says 2015 was a blockbuster year for movie makers in Utah. Film has changed.

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

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The less money that is needed to spend on gas and other work-related travel, the more money that can be spent on everything else. “In In addition, Brunswick County is one of the localities that receive economic development support from the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission. Four sections are now open to travelers.

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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

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The permit is $250 annually and is applied to a single truck, giving companies the flexibility to pay for only the trucks that will travel in the zone rather than paying for their entire fleet. The Joplin Metro area in southwest Missouri is in the center of North American markets. Major metros such as Dallas, Kansas City, St.

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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If those trends continued, Clark reckoned housing affordability in the Salt Lake metro area would follow the same path as California’s Silicon Valley, potentially creating an estimated shortage of 50,845 housing units in the Salt Lake market by 2044, according to a 2018 study by the University of Utah’s Kem C.