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Cannabis Retail Construction: How to Navigate the Green Rush

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First of all, the time frame for leasing and building out a space – whether a dispensary or cultivation facility – is often dictated by when new laws around marijuana usage go into effect. They use an inordinate amount of water and power, and so the appropriate infrastructure must be in place to support them.

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Legalized Marijuana: Opportunities and Impact for Commercial Real Estate and Construction

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First of all, the time frame for leasing and building out a space – whether a dispensary or cultivation facility – is often dictated by when new laws around marijuana usage go into effect. They use an inordinate amount of water and power, and so the appropriate infrastructure must be in place to support them.

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Richelieu Foods Expanding In Wheeling, IL

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will expand its manufacturing capacity by leasing a 115,000-square-foot food grade manufacturing plant in Wheeling, IL. Richelieu Foods employs more than 800 employees across manufacturing facilities in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Ohio. “We Richelieu Foods Inc. and Canada. and Canada. Credit: Miron Construction Co.

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Energy Innovation: Solar Energy Solutions Continue to Gain Momentum

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Solar trees at Florida's Babcock Ranch, where sustainability is built into the infrastructure. There is no perfect panacea in one energy source,” said Bill Owens, founder and president of Owens Construction , in Worthington, Ohio, in a recent webinar sponsored by the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC). “It

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Black Gold Rush

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“One can only imagine the impact on California’s education system, social programs, infrastructure, and even energy-tech R&D. Other states with large shale deposits—including Pennsylvania, Ohio and Louisiana—are moving full speed ahead with large-scale fracking operations. Last year, CA Gov.

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

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During construction of the new riverfront complex, IBM will be temporarily lease space at the Essen Centre office complex in Baton Rouge. We beat Ohio State, MIT and Georgia Tech, which is a big deal for us.”. The office building is scheduled for completion by spring 2015 with the residential complex following in the summer.

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

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Google’s Pittsburgh site has focused on three areas of work: the Google Product Search, which presents items available for online purchase; work that determines which ads to display based on a search query; and search infrastructure, which handles the computer systems fueling every result page. Northeast Ohio: Shaking Off the Rust.