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How to design for adaptive reuse: Don’t reinvent the wheel

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Best Practices: Work with What You Have Any architect can look at a dilapidated site and suggest tearing it down and starting from scratch. Don’t put a window if you have to move something else to do so, and don’t add electrical where you have to dig up existing pieces of the structure. Harvest the value of the existing space.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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A state may have the largest installed capacity of a certain type of renewable energy, but that state won’t meet its renewable energy portfolio standard’s goal if only 10 percent of its electricity is generated from renewables. OPPORTUNITY ZONES ARE HERE. The authors of the Opportunity Zones section of the tax reform bill, Sen.

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FEATURE STORY: Logistics Clusters Are Jobs Magnets

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According to site selection experts, logistics clusters are defined as an agglomeration of logistics activities in one geographic location. This is where you see development of hybrid trucks, electric trucks and hybrid cranes. I-69: Logistics Cluster in the Heart of Michigan. By Business Facilities Staff. Clair County.

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Logistics: On the Road, Water or Rails…or in the Air — AGAIN

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Through the Enterprise Zones Program business and industry can realize state incentives such as Job Creation Grants and Real Property Investment Grants, while also realizing a number of local tax and other incentives. This commitment is shown via a broad range of incentives available to industry. I-69 KEEPS ROLLING ALONG IN SOUTHERN INDIANA.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – State Rankings

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As priorities for site selection requirements change, we adjust the rankings to give you our most credible assessment of which locations are meeting those requirements. made vehicles annually, is ramping up to full production at its Chattanooga plant, while Nissan is rolling out the all-electric Leaf in Smyrna, TN.

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LOCATION FOCUS: Things are Heating Up in the Hoosier State

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The state business climate cultivates success with favorable costs, shovel-ready sites, support and expertise and a skilled workforce. Operating expenses are kept to a minimum with a competitive tax structure, low workers compensation rates and low industrial electricity. Indiana’s population of 6,516,922 (July 1, 2011 U.S.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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Apple’s selection of Austin as the site for its new $304-million Operations Center was the Bronze Award winner in Business Facilities ’ 2012 Economic Development Deal of the Year competition. The riverfront complex is being built on the old Advocate newspaper site. At year-end 2012, 190,900 jobs had been added with wages totaling $9.9

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