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COVER STORY: Shovel Ready Sites Are Growing From The Ground Up

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Obtaining the Shovel Ready designation better positions the city of Becker [a St. One of the header designs is 45 feet wide. In September, the program helped to make a new designation in Goshen’s Waterford Commons Business Park in Indianapolis. Geringhoff is a 130 year old company, based in Ahlen, Germany. Indiana Lt.

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SNAPSHOTS: 60 Seconds… With Larry V. Parman, Secretary, Oklahoma Department Of Commerce

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Third, agencies will designate energy managers who will be responsible for monitoring the program. billion project by MidAmerican Energy, an Iowa-based utility, and the long-awaited Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound. Among the mega-deals announced as the deadline approached were a $1.9-billion runways; one with a 7,800 ft.

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Feature Story: Shovel-Ready Sites – Fired Up, Ready To Go

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million aviation technical school is nearing completion at the Fairhope Airport Industrial Park, designated at an Alabama AdvantageSite. With this designation, communities can receive more looks from companies as sites become qualified as shovel-ready. This is the fifth Baldwin County site to earn this designation.

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

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Launched by the Shale Gas Innovation and Commercialization Center (SGICC), the initiative is designed to harness entrepreneurial innovation to maximize the economic return from the Marcellus and Utica shale formations. broke ground on a 500 MW wind farm, the largest single site in Iowa history. times that of the Nos.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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Semiconductor companies in Austin include chip designers Intel, IBM, and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and chip manufacturers Freescale Semiconductor, Samsung and Spansion. Services offered to these developing companies include work space and access to experienced mentors, programming and design. Together, they employ thousands.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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TVA Economic Development Loan Fund: A multimillion-dollar revolving loan program designed to stimulate investment and job creation in the TVA region. 573), was enacted in 1987 to stimulate business and industrial growth in designated areas of the state that are considered economically depressed. In December 2002, the former U.S.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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ENTERPRISE ZONE CREDIT: To stimulate growth in depressed areas of the state, Alabama offers certain tax credit incentives to business that locate or expand within a designated enterprise zone. SALES & USE TAX ABATEMENTS: Taxes on construction-related transactions, pollution control devices are exempt from sales and use taxes.

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