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After Sandy: New Report Looks At Mitigating Climate Change Through Land Use

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As a result, we are seeing different approaches to development in the 21st century,” said Joseph Azrack, managing partner at Apollo Global Real Estate in New York City. Soft systems involve enabling natural resources to address issues such as storm water management or shoreline protection.

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Job Order Contracting – Audit Results

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Furthermore, multiple deployment methods have been used for Job Order Contracting: Owner- managed JOC programs, JOC participation using cooperatives, and JOC as a service (outsourcing JOC program set-up and management via a third party). A certain threshold of expertise, however, is required on the part of all stakeholders.

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Job Order Contracting – Audit Results

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Furthermore, multiple deployment methods have been used for Job Order Contracting: Owner- managed JOC programs, JOC participation using cooperatives, and JOC as a service (outsourcing JOC program set-up and management via a third party). A certain threshold of expertise, however, is required on the part of all stakeholders.

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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards

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The Arizona team worked closely with Maricopa County’s air-quality department to obtain the required permits for Apple. Mesa also processed the required permits expeditiously. GM is hiring software developers, project managers, database experts, business analysts and other IT professionals for the Innovation Center in Roswell.

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Pity the fool - The Business Facilities Blog - Economic Development.

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The flaw, he explained, was that the banking giants had failed to regulate themselves, causing the intellectual edifice of the modern risk-management paradigm to collapse. Philadelphia success story. Previous 10 Posts. Live from Germany, It's Monday Night! Crimson tide swamps Birmingham. You've got a new partner, Bjorn.

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When office-to-residential conversion works

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In most cases, these office-to-residential incentives are necessary to offset the other economic forces at play, DC Managing Principal Barbara Mullenex says. WeWork: WeLive has since come under new management as the Common at National Landing.) Office buildings are worth more” than residential as income generators, she explains.

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FEATURE STORY: Racing To Be Ready – U.S. Ports Prepare for Post Panamax Era

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DREDGING THE DELAWARE AS PHILADELPHIA GETS READY. A massive, $300-million Delaware River dredging project is helping the Port of Philadelphia get post-Panamax Ready. A deeper shipping channel will allow us to welcome a wider variety of cargo vessels to the Port of Philadelphia. percent gain in cargoes handled.