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Top 10 Ivory Innovations Finalists for the 2023 Housing Affordability Prize

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The prize awards organizations that demonstrate ambitious, feasible, and scalable solutions to the housing affordability crisis. PermitFlow's technology reduces risk and cost associated with construction, creating new paths to build housing affordably.

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Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize

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This year’s finalists in the Policy & Regulatory Reform category include organizations focused on addressing historically lengthy processes, such as accelerating permitting and connecting LMI individuals to housing opportunities. For more information about the Ivory Prize and Ivory Innovations, visit www.ivoryinnovations.org.

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Common Sense Workplace Safety

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Are you educated, trained and experienced to perform your job safely? Are only authorized, competent employees permitted to perform repairs? The best way to gain this knowledge is through education and training. Education and Training. Have the potential hazards in the workplace been identified? Hazard Evaluations.

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SPECIAL REPORT: Site Location Factors For Automotive Suppliers

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Site utilization for automotive suppliers from a feasibility, cost, and developmental risk perspective is typically driven by confirmation that the following location criteria are satisfied: Size, shape, topography and room for future expansion; site buffer should provide protection from residential and commercial neighbors.

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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards

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The Arizona team worked closely with Maricopa County’s air-quality department to obtain the required permits for Apple. Mesa also processed the required permits expeditiously. “This new plant will make components for Apple products and it will run on 100 percent renewable energy from day one.”

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Property Tax Abatements: The Tax Incentive Reform Act of 1992 (TIRA) allows qualified industries to receive abatements of non-educational property taxes for new businesses locating to Alabama and for expansions of existing facilities in Alabama. The combined state and local millage rate would then be applied to the assessed value.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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The capital credit is used only after all other deductions, losses or credits permitted under Titles 40 and 41 of the Code of Alabama 1975. EMPLOYER EDUCATION CREDIT: A tax credit is statutorily available to employers who provide approved basic skills education programs to Alabama resident employees.

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