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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. automaker from going the way of the dinosaurs.

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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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SNAPSHOTS: 60 Seconds…with Stephen Moret, Secretary, Louisiana Economic Development

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ROAD TO RECOVERY. 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. city in history to file for bankruptcy.

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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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In Remembrance of Bill Pulte, a Housing Giant

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Starting out as a carpenter while still in high school, Pulte built his first home, a five-room bungalow, near the Detroit City Airport, when he was just 18, with the help of five friends. In 1972, the company began offering its own financing to homebuyers at competitive mortgage rates. All are accurate, but one is missing: innovator.

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GSA, LEED, USGBC, and Politics

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Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority. USGBC Detroit Chapter. Hampton Roads Green Building Council. City of Tempe. City of Winston-Salem, Office of Sustainability. Clark Nexsen, Architecture and Engineering. Clayco, Inc. Clean Age, LLC. Clean Energy Coalition. Cleaning First Impressions. Clivus Multrum, Inc.