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Lessons learned from our museum construction projects

The Korte Company

This maximizes the museum’s ability to comfortably channel visitors to its various focal points, including a large glass display wall, a wide-screen theater, a multi-purpose space and a retail area. Usually, the phrase “mixed-use development” envisions dynamic spaces featuring offices, retail, restaurants and housing.

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Logistics: No Drivers Needed

Business Facilities

Indiana may be known as the Crossroads of America, but the aptly named Hoosier state connects far more than travelers criss-crossing through the state’s network of interstate highways. In its 2017 fiscal year, Nashville International Airport (BNA), the region’s conduit for air travel, served a record-breaking 13.5 percent increase.

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Money, relationships, power, marketing

Construction Marketing Ideas

Our captain, Robert Merkley , combines the traits of the genuinely wealthy people worthy of admiration: He has practical down-to-earth competence (as a masonry retailer to the region’s contractors and developers) yet plenty of community spirit and genuine philanthropic values. They tend to travel together.)

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Location Focus: Florida – Rebounded And Ready

Business Facilities

New conceptual plans offer two options: as a new Retail District or an Office Park. Retail: Numerous existing retailers in Cape Coral have experienced tremendous annual sales and, in some instances, are the largest grossing stores within their respective chains. This reflects the retail market’s vast potential in the city.

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Food Processing: Generating Growth for Good Eats

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Brampton’s young, educated and diverse labor force is matched by its ideal location. Brampton has access to a large pool of highly skilled workers and to trained employees and graduates from first-rate post-secondary educational institutions. These companies then process and package it for sale to retail and wholesale markets.

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LOCATION FOCUS: United It Stands

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

The region is within a day’s travel of 10 of the largest cities in North America and navigated by I-90, I-390, the Greater Rochester International Airport and the Norfolk Southern Finger Lakes Railway. Whether traveling by car, train, bus, boat or plane, New York can get you there. Its nine counties (e.g.,

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INDUSTRY FOCUS: Points of Entry for Cash-Rich Cargo

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One advantage by using the barge is that containers can be loaded heavier than the 80,000- pound weight limit for trucks traveling between Stockton and Oakland via the highway system. A prime example is the Hendricks College Network, a non-profit linking employers with Indiana’s wealth of educational and workforce development resources.