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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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Location Focus: New York – The Empire State Leverages Its Strengths

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Business will be able to locate in these special university economic zones and operate 100 percent tax-free for 10 years, with no income tax, business or corporate state and local taxes, no sales tax, no property tax, no franchise fees, and in many cases, no income tax for employees. In 2013, AA Technology Inc.,

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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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BUSINESS REPORT: Maryland — SSA’s New Data Hub Moves Forward In Urbana

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The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Mid-Atlantic Region and the Social Security Administration (SSA) are collaborating to design and construct the SSA’s new National Support Center in Urbana, MD. The existing computer center was constructed in 1979 and the infrastructure systems are approaching the end of their useful lives.

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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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When office-to-residential conversion works

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Office buildings are worth more” than residential as income generators, she explains. In new construction, developers typically prefer to locate their amenities in one or two locations—the main level and rooftop, for example. BLTa—A Perkins Eastman Studio—is among Philadelphia’s leaders in residential conversions.

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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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