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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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Pennsylvania’s decision to consolidate hundreds of bridge projects into a single procurement financed by a bond fund managed by a new Public-Private Partnership (P3) should serve as a model for the rest of the country. The $722-million project is the largest private-activity bond financing of a public-private partnership in the U.S.

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COVER STORY: Editors’ Location Picks

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eStockIt.com in Hollywood is an online retailer of restaurant, janitorial and office supplies. Twenty-eight Fortune 500 companies operate within the Little Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area. Union Pacific, ConAgra Foods, Peter Kiewit Sons, Inc. Motorola Mobility, Plantation, FL. million passengers annually. and Mutual of Omaha.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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financed campaign to strong-arm state legislature in slowing the turbine effort down. 2009 (the Recession officially ended in April 2009, but unemployment didn’t peak until the end of that year) to the most current numbers available (April 2014, Bureau of Labor Statistics). 2 at 26 percent).

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Industry Focus: Food Processing – The Process Of Consistency

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CVS produces “Grab Apples” from locally grown apples that are sliced, packaged and shipped to local schools, retail markets, restaurants and their distributors. There also is Arkansas’s state-of-the-art railroad infrastructure comprising three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway and Kansas City Southern Railway.