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How Private Housing Additions Are Creating a Back-Alley Market

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Millions of privately built home units are part of an informal housing market unfolding mostly in major cities where the cost of living is high and single-family zoning is limited, The New York Times reports. . Affordability.

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Delivering acoustic sanity

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Think about distractions in your office—or home office,” says Sara Hickman, sustainability director at RDC-S111 in Long Beach, California. She suggests focusing on typology, codes, and zoning when specifying effective acoustic solutions. “In Hickman is a LEED AP, WELL AP, and EcoDistricts AP.

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BUSINESS REPORT: New California Incentives Offer Credits For Job Creation

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Long Beach Community College. The San Diego Enterprise Zone, which ended Dec. The San Diego Enterprise Zone, which ended Dec. Jerry Brown wanted to end the roughly 25-year-old Enterprise Zone program because he said it wasn’t creating jobs as intended. Long Beach City College received two grants totaling $4.5

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Location Focus: Washington – Scenic Vistas And Soaring Industry Side By Side

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Snohomish County has a long, successful history of collaboration with these key stakeholders to support the continued growth and expansion of the state’s aerospace cluster, most recently manifested in Boeing’s decision to site 777X assembly and composite wing manufacturing at its Everett facility. 30 minutes to downtown Seattle.

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Rising Export Volumes Spur Inland Port Development Across the U.S.

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Inland ports are hubs designed to move international shipments more effectively between maritime ports and locations throughout the U.S. which will become the first inland port to serve the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. They are connected by dedicated rail lines to one or more seaports.

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LOCATION FOCUS: California Dreamin’ – A Rebound Fueled By New Energy

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The region boasts one of California’s largest enterprise zones, offering incentives for companies to locate and expand within the greater Sacramento area. that are LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). Additionally, Hesperia has 1,032 acres zoned for commercial and industrial development.

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Home Stretch

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Currently, East Coast ports get about 35 percent of the container traffic from Asia, while 65 percent is unloaded at such West Coast ports as Los Angeles-Long Beach and Seattle-Tacoma, which can already handle larger ships and have the additional advantage of access to roads that are less congested than those of the eastern seaboard.

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