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State Focus: Pennsylvania – Built To Advance

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Pennsylvania puts jobs first. Under Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett’s leadership, Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate stands at a five-year low and jobs have been growing on a consistent basis for nearly four years. “My My policy for growing the Pennsylvania economy is simple—more jobs, less taxes,” says Gov.

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Pennsylvania Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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For a list of Pennsylvania economic development agencies that can help with the site selection process, visit our Online Site Seekers’ Guide. Global Access Program (GAP): (newpa.com/gap) Designed to enhance the capability of small to mid-sized Pennsylvania companies to increase export sales. Small Business Administration. .

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$2.2 Billion Commercial and Retail Project Reclaims Brownfield

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After an multi-million dollar clean up that included injecting 38,000 tons of cement into a lagoon on the site to add ground stability, O’Neill Properties, based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, will officially break ground on its 5.8 million square foot project called The Pointe.

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Writing the book on smarter warehouse design and construction

The Korte Company

Construction schedules have always been tight, and that trend will continue. However, advances in Design-Build delivery and Tilt-Up concrete construction certainly have helped companies like ours remain on schedule and budget,” he said. Our first Hershey project was construction of a massive, 1.1 The result? Postal Service.

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4 distribution center projects that changed The Korte Company forever

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What pushed The Korte Company from being a modest regional builder into a proper national Design-Build construction company? That’s the Walgreens, the country’s second-largest health and wellness retail brand. Then he drove up to Chicago the following Wednesday to meet with the Walgreens construction team.

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Bootstraps for Building

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Allentown, located in the heart of the Lehigh Valley and the third most-populous city in Pennsylvania, has a glorious history. When the industrial revolution unfolded in the 1830s, Allentown became the center of Pennsylvania’s iron industry and a railroad hub. 119,000, is one of the fastest-growing cities in Pennsylvania.

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Bottled water, eyeglass repair kits, kids, Wal-Mart (and construction marketing)

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Yet there is a link here, based on W al-Mart’s “Get on the Shelf” initiative , which combined some social media marketing techniques with good-old-fashioned emotional appeal to propel three product-makers to coveted high-profile space on the discount retailer’s shelves. But we had no idea we’d win.”

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