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Transportation Grants Help Create 880 Jobs In Metro Detroit

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million to the City of Detroit and the Road Commission for Oakland County. The TEDF helps finance highway, road and street projects that are critical to the movement of people and products, and getting workers to their jobs, materials to growers and manufacturers, and finished goods to consumers. City of Detroit.

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The Road to Recovery in Detroit

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These have been dark days for Detroit. The finances of a city once the center of the automotive universe are in the hands of an unelected manager appointed by Michigan’s governor. billion in its Jefferson North plant on Detroit’s dilapidated East Side.

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UniFirst Investing $12M In Owensboro, KY Expansion

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The expansion project will add 40,000 square feet to UniFirst’s existing building to total approximately 360,000 square feet of production, packing, office and shipping space. UniFirst recently purchased Detroit-based competitor Arrow Uniforms in a $122 million cash deal. Source: UniFirst). Matt Bevin. “We

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New Partnership Encourages Private Investment In Natural Infrastructure

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In the wake of 2012’s unparalleled extreme weather events, a green infrastructure financing guide was released by the NatLab consortium—a collaboration between the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and The Nature Conservancy, and sustainable asset management firm EKO Asset Management Partners. Detroit: $50 million over 20 years.

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Home Builder Success and the Fragility of Good Things

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Finance and Zebras . Over time, the concept has migrated through multiple disciplines including finance, marketing, product development, ecological risk assessment, and even cultural anthropology. . In my home market of Detroit, which few consider a good market, there are just a handful of nationals and a few smaller regionals.

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Feature Story: Public-Private Partnerships – An Alliance For Progress That Works

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City of Fort Lauderdale, Workforce Florida, Workforce One Broward County, Florida Power & Light’s Office of Economic Development, Department of Economic Opportunity and Florida Power and Light Energy Services (FPL). “It More accurately, it came with their departure from Silicon Valley and a return to Detroit.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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The new facility, which will increase Apple’s workforce in Austin to more than 6,700, will serve as the primary operations nexus for the company in the Americas outside of Apple’s global headquarters in Cupertino, CA, centralizing accounting, human resources, sales, marketing and finance. Airbus is the largest customer of the U.S.

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