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Business Report: Garden State Growth Zones Aim to Lift New Jersey’s Cities

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It places extra emphasis on spurring development and private-sector job growth in new Garden State Growth Zones (GSGZ) identified in the legislation as the four lowest median family income cities in the state: Camden, Trenton, Passaic and Paterson. All of these metrics are compared to industry standard measures.

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Pennsylvania Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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High Performance Building Program (HPB): (newpa.com/hpb) Provides financial assistance in the form of grant or loan funds that will be used by eligible applicants to underwrite the cost premiums associated with the design and construction or major renovation of high performance buildings in the Commonwealth.

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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards

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The Apple manufacturing facility will create 700 jobs with average salaries of $45,000 as well as 1,300 construction jobs, creating an overall economic impact for the region of $1.33 The KOZ incentive program provides tax abatements for county and township property taxes, corporate net income taxes, and school taxes for a period of 10 years.

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Cover Story: Global Biotech Report

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Our itinerary includes the new Biosciences Training Center, now under construction in Georgia, and a look at the Life Sciences Greenhouses in Pennsylvania, which nurture the seedlings of innovation until they’re ready to blossom into commercial use. Biotech was, next to IT and Finance, one of the most important branches to investors.

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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Awards

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The largest project in the community’s history, the West Haymarket redevelopment project, was sup- ported financially by the Partnership through the passage of a bond issue that will construct a new 16,000-seat arena. Oswego County is experiencing a growth spurt in the food processing sector.

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Housing, Industrialized: Designing for Off-Site

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Builders Volumetric Building Companies' Vaughan Buckley on Restarting a Former Katerra Factory “Design casts the biggest shadow in the whole process,” says Sara Logan, AIA, VP of design and Volumetric Building Companies , a vertically integrated modular provider based in Philadelphia. Not so in a factory.

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COVER STORY: 2012 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards

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Entries from 17 states that jousted for our top awards included a biotech mega-complex in Georgia, a world- class commercial aircraft assembly facility in Alabama, a yogurt plant in Idaho and even a refinery in Philadelphia. 2,184 direct jobs created in 2016 (8,972 including construction jobs). $10-billion Project Impact Estimates.

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