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Innovation Is Thriving In Arizona

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Arizona offers one of the lowest costs of doing business in the United States, primarily because of low taxes and small state government. Boasting a population of nearly 500,000, Mesa is the 36th largest city in the United States and second largest in the Phoenix-Mesa metro area. After leasing the U.S.

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Business Report: GEICO Expansion Brings 1,000 New Jobs To Katy, TX

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The oil and gas exploration and production company is separating to create a new company that will oversee its existing California assets as the state’s largest natural gas producer. The company extended its lease in Greenway Plaza in March of 2013. Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. Premier Newman and Gov.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

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During construction of the new riverfront complex, IBM will be temporarily lease space at the Essen Centre office complex in Baton Rouge. We have partnered successfully with the state to build The Shaw Center for the Arts in downtown,” said John G.

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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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Metro Little Rock excels when it comes to importing materials and shipping the finished product. In 2010, Caterpillar opened a new $140 million motor grader production facility in North Little Rock. Caterpillar, in its first year in the region, built over 1,000 Motor Graders which were sold throughout the world.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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The expansion includes retrofitting their main fab to logic chips to supply mobile and tablet production. Annual production at the facility has tripled since 2008. So the last remaining auto assembly plant within the city limits of Detroit is now perhaps the most modern and successful vehicle production facility in the world.

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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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Federal Real Property Regulations (FAR / FMR)

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The term does not apply to civil defense matters such as potential or actual enemy attacks that are addressed by the U.S. Public body” means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, or any political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality of the foregoing.