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Industry Focus – Retail: Less Than Six Degrees of Separation

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Retail accounts for more than $2 trillion in total GDP impact with consumer spending accounting for more than two-thirds of the U.S. The Tarpon Point Resort at Marina Village is home to a number of upscale retail shops and restaurants. By the BF Staff From the March/April 2016 Issue. Credit: City of Cape Coral).

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

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The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) recently approved the first projects under the revised Grow NJ program to encourage businesses to increase employment in New Jersey. “More and better-paying jobs are the keys to thriving cities, which are vital to the economic well-being of our entire state.”.

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Bootstraps for Building

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Like many other older cities, a decades-long decline in manufacturing coupled with urban flight left the downtown populated by discount retail stores and pizza parlors. These new workers, in turn, may move into new housing (and eat in new restaurants and shop in new stores, etc.,

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Oregon Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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CAP loans may not be used to purchase or improve residential housing, purchase or improve real property not used for business operations or refinance an existing balance of a non-enrolled loan. Lenders build a loan-loss reserve each time they enroll a loan. Contributions to the loan-loss reserve account are matched by the Oregon CAP.

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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

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After microchips became the central components of an emerging digital economy, one of Moore’s successors at Intel updated the theorem and applied it to silicon wafers; Intel exec David House declared that chip performance would double every 18 months. Access to the necessary tools and training is essential for U.S.

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Are There Lessons From the Great Recession for the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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Many builders reported that last December was unusually busy, the best in years for housing starts and contracts. economy into its worst quarter since the Great Depression, with unprecedented declines in gross domestic product, employment, consumer confidence, retail spending, and just about every other metric. . . Then, poof!

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STATE FOCUS: Florida – Let The Sun Shine

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The report indicated that the state’s housing market is improving while at the same time aiding in the restoration of wealth and triggering job creation in the construction sector. percent in 2012, retail sales will grow at an average pace of 3.7 And that “Upwardly revised payroll job growth year-over-year should average just 1.8

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