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Location Focus: Florida – Rebounded And Ready

Business Facilities

The largest in Florida history, it provides tax cuts and reduced fees as well as allocations for further business development. In addition to adding new money to public schools, state colleges and universities, the budget includes $20 million for Enterprise Florida Inc., $19 The proof is in the relocations. percent from last year.

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6 showcase hotel construction projects

The Korte Company

With over 60 years of construction experience, The Korte Company has delivered hotel and housing facilities from coast to coast. Marco’s Sunset Cove Resort – Marco Island, Florida. Since then, KMC has served as a training facility, housed a Navy camp, hosted numerous dignitaries including General Dwight D.

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Nicole Peters, the troubleshooter

The Korte Company

Her job would have required countless hours and travel costs in the old days. And even though her work occurs almost exclusively behind a screen, it’s key for maintaining no-fail operations on job sites from Florida to Oregon. This task is most challenging on Department of Defense projects. “He enjoyed it for sure.

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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Rounding out the top five in Best Business Climate are Virginia, which is luring major government contractors to relocate their headquarters to the state (Northrop made the move, and VA is courting Lockheed); Florida, where Gov. More than 162,000 workers are directly employed in the aerospace/defense industries in the Golden State.

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Homeland Insecurity

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Despite two trips to Saudi Arabia and a close association with the only American who had fulfilled the trifecta of joining ISIS, traveling to Syria and blowing himself up, no one was watching this individual three weeks ago, when he walked into a Florida gun shop. The House of Representatives and the U.S.

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Industry Focus: Aerospace Sector Is Flying High Again

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A fter several years of job losses, aerospace and defense sector employment is expected to grow in 2016 by more than 39,000 jobs in the U.S., Aerospace & Defense Labor Market Study. percent, of which about 185,000 jobs were lost in the defense subsector. Aerospace and defense sector companies paid $7.7

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

After several years in Atlanta, he currently resides in Tampa, Florida, with his wife and two sons. Siebel Center for Computer Science and the National Center for Supercomputing for the University of Illinois Urban/Champaign and two research laboratory buildings for The Scripps Research Institute for their new campus in Florida.

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