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Illinois town planning for $500M rail-served logistics center

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The logistics center will use the Kansas City Southern Railroad. The freight rail industry is an estimated $60 billion business, comprising 140,000 miles.

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Fed Economist Forecasts Uptick in Single-Family Construction

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The housing market may be headed straight for a post-pandemic downturn, but according to Jordan Rappaport, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, an uptick in single-family home building could soon follow. Planning + Development. NAHB reports. New-Construction Projects. Single-Family Homes.

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BNSF Opens New Logistics Park Intermodal Facility In Kansas

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BNSF Railway introduced its new Logistics Park Kansas City (LPKC) Intermodal Facility in Edgerton, KS in October, 2013. LPKC is a 1,550-acre master-planned distribution and warehouse development anchored by BNSF’s newest Intermodal facility. First train to arrive at BNSF’s LPKC intermodal facility.

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FEATURE STORY: High-Tech Hubs Are Moving To Their Markets

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This means that new hot spots of tech innovation are springing up in places like Kansas City, the site of Google’s new high speed Google Fiber network, and Pittsburgh, a new hotbed for innovative tech start-ups. also is moving ahead with a proposed plan to create a major operations center in Austin. Apple, Inc.

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Katoen Natie USA Announces $150 Million Baton Rouge Area Facility

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LED estimates the project will also result in 516 new indirect jobs, for a total of more than 700 new permanent jobs. Katoen Natie’s plans include developing tie-ins to rail assets served by Kansas City Southern Railway and Canadian National Railroad, potentially becoming one of the few facilities of its kind with dual railway access. “We

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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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Dassault Falcon Jet plans to increase the size of its plant (pictured above) in Little Rock, AR. Major market centers in the region include: Memphis, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, New Orleans and St. An estimated 38.4 By Shana Daley. From the March/April 2014 issue.

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Ford Offers Gas When Diesel Is Too Much | ENR: Engineering News.

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plans to cash in on that trend by offering gasoline power in its new medium-duty F-650, which just starting rolling off the assembly line in Escobedo, Mexico, on August 15. near Kansas City. near Kansas City. When diesel is not mission-critical to the job, gasoline makes a heck of a lot of sense. Ford Motor Co.