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Florida: A Warm Climate For Business Growth

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Florida is working on legislative, fiscal and marketplace initiatives such as insurance tort reform, targeted industry incentives and many more. Business dollars go a lot farther in Florida given the state’s tax advantages, tax exemptions and no state personal income tax. AFFORDABLE IN TAMPA BAY, HERNANDO COUNTY HAS IT ALL.

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Packing and Leaving

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Meanwhile, in Tampa, FL, new regulations posted by the federal Food and Drug Administration are threatening to shut down the last remaining cigar factory in what has been known for more than a century as Cigar City. Cigars transformed Tampa from a tiny fishing village of 700 in 1885 into a city of more than 100,000 by 1920.

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How Just-in-Time Land Deals Help Manage Cash Flow

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But when it comes to land inventory strategies, most builders seem reluctant to rely on a “just-in-time” model to acquire land as needed for immediate construction. Just-in-time business models have proven highly effective for U.S. automakers, aviation companies, and other manufacturers. In the Real World.

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Global Growth Surge in Southwest Louisiana

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This model allows employees in all functions to see and interact with the entire team. The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW), a barge canal from Brownsville, TX to Tampa Bay, FL passes through the parish providing easy access to receiving raw materials and shipping finished products out by water, rail and land transportation.

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COVER STORY: Editors’ Location Picks

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The winner of the new Achievement in Public-Private Partnership Award has set the standard for best practices in this dominant new economic development model. Atlanta was the second most cost-competitive location in the large-cities category, followed by Orlando, Tampa and Dallas-Fort Worth, which ranked third, fourth and fifth respectively.

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