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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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North Carolina, Colorado and Virginia topped the chart in BF’s flagship Economic Growth Potential ranking. North Carolina has been laying out the welcome mat for businesses in a diverse group of industries, offering a growing talent pool of young skilled workers, an attractive quality of life and targeted incentives.

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Hord Coplan Macht names Ilijana Soldan as Sustainability Manager

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Soldan is a research-based designer and project architect with a diverse background in education, commercial, office, retail, recreation, campus planning, mixed-use, residential, and senior living.

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SPECIAL REPORT: The Carolinas Are Bringing The Business

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Manufacturing continues to be a real wealth and job creator across South Carolina,” said Hitt. May was also a good month for North Carolina—the month it was announced that Cape Fear Arsenal Inc. The project was made possible in part by a performance-based grant from the One North Carolina Fund of up to $490,000.

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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

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Locations are bringing higher ed resources and high-tech businesses together to plant the seeds for market-ready advanced technology at incubators and innovation institutes, and to create the STEM-savvy workforce that will fill these new jobs. Chicago is rising up in ranks to become the next big place for technology innovation.

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Bootstraps for Building

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For a successful example of this innovative approach, look no further than Allentown, PA. Mack Trucks and other major factories that made Allentown a manufacturing hub headed for greener pastures (Mack moved to North Carolina) or overseas; the last major silk company closed its doors in 1989.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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Baton Rouge, LA has had great success in executing its strategy of bringing together business and higher education in innovative public-private partnerships that spur initiatives in new high-growth sectors. billion in its Jefferson North plant on Detroit’s dilapidated East Side. Beshear.

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BUSINESS REPORT: Ontario Unveils Plans To Achieve An Energy Balance

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The government will seek to expand the Smart Grid Fund, which has created more than 600 jobs and supported 11 projects developing innovative technologies. According to a 2013 report in Canada’s Wine Economy—Ripe, Robust, Remarkable: The wine industry generated $662 million in retail sales in Ontario in 2012.

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