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Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize

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CoFi is piloting a new modular construction financing program with Manufactured, an end-to-end inventory manufacturing & finance solution. Trust Neighborhoods | Kansas City, Missouri Trust Neighborhoods is a Kansas City-based nonprofit creating community-controlled real estate where gentrification threatens displacement.

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Iowa: Moving To The Top Of The Class

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The regional initiative, the Quad Cities Manufacturing Innovation Hub (the Hub), was chosen by the Department of Defense Industry Adjustment program to create a model in the Quad Cities that will be replicated throughout other parts of the nation. Louis, Kansas City, Des Moines, Indianapolis and Omaha.

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SPECIAL REPORT: Two Train Cars Forward, Three Cargo Ships Back

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From the people to the technology and the resources to the components, the system that moves a product from the supplier to the customer involves many steps. Logistics incorporates the complexity of integrating information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling and packaging. By Dominique Cantelme.

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STATE FOCUS: Kansas Focuses On The All-Around

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Kansas also has no personal property tax, no inventory tax and no franchise tax. Kansas is a right-to-work state, bringing one additional cost saving to employers. A new BNSF Railway Intermodal Facility near Kansas City provides businesses with one more strategic shipping advantage.

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

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Major market centers in the region include: Memphis, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, New Orleans and St. Arkansas’s railroad infrastructure includes three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway, and Kansas City Southern Railway. population.

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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

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Slow economic growth has kept the percentage low, but the supply chain sector has made great strides in productivity, asset utilization and inventory management in the past three years.” There is no inventory tax, which is particularly advantageous to distribution companies. Major metros such as Dallas, Kansas City, St.

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Logistics: On the Road, Water or Rails…or in the Air — AGAIN

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percent in 2014 due to stronger shipment volumes and inventory carrying charges that were up 2.1 The county’s rich natural resources attract a number of industries such as Redland Brick that uses robotics to manufacture some of the highest quality bricks that are shipped to markets all along the east coast and beyond. percent in 2014.

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