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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Awards

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The Internet company received a $2-million incentive package (tied to job-creation commitments) for its relocation to the 100,000-square-foot office. The Back Office/Call Center effort involves the owners of the major office buildings and office parks in the city to do collaborative marketing and research.

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Leading the Home Building Industry: Pro Builder's 2021 Forty Under 40

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Other members of the class started at the bottom as a laborer, bought the business from their boss and then flourished, one by repositioning his company to build high-performance homes and the other by expanding and opening a second office and hiring more staff. . Eder Gallardo , 35, VP, Edward’s Homes of El Paso, El Paso, Texas.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

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Inspired by New Urbanism design principles, the complex will include an office building that will house the new IBM Services Center, as well as a separate, 11-story residential building with 95 river-view apartments and nine separate town homes. million office building will be funded by the State of Louisiana ($14.8

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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

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The Midwest Inland Port is served by a Foreign Trade Zone and provides local Customs Clearing, features that are being enhanced to provide a more robust set of service offerings. The Sunset Route, the 760-mile Union Pacific corridor between the ports of Los Angeles and El Paso, is an important transcontinental route for goods and business.

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The Home Building Technology Revolution, Part III: The Missing Link

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Now consider the software side, which deals with the home building process —anything from back-office accounting, purchase orders (POs) and variance purchase orders (VPOs), options and selections management, sales management, scheduling, warranty management, and BIM (building information modeling), etc. . Garbage in, garbage out.

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LOCATION FOCUS: Texas: Big Heart, Country, Business

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Facebook opened its Austin office in May 2010 and doubled the facility’s size in October 2011. The Austin office represents Facebook’s first major U.S. expansion and is its largest operations office in North America outside of its Menlo Park, California headquarters. The Foreign-Trade Zone Program adds to Port Freeport’s appeal.

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

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Construction is underway on two wind farms with power purchase agreements in place, according to the Nebraska Energy Office, the 118-turbine Prairie Breeze Wind Energy Farm located near Elgin and a 43-turbine project near Broken Bow. This farm started producing 75 MW of electricity at the end of 2013. 26, 2013 Deseret news article. “It