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Commercial Construction Strategies: Flagship Stores to Footprint Expansion

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Flagship stores typically include a high-profile construction site – often a busy urban area with its own construction planning challenges. Some great examples of this are the variety of restaurant and retail build-outs we’ve completed up and down Chicago’s Michigan Avenue. Working with equipment suppliers ahead of time is key.

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The Wave Will Spread

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As you might imagine, this is incredibly important in the site selection process, to which I advise companies. In the drive to remain competitive and to free themselves from the encumbrances of labor unions, US manufacturers have been shifting resources to right to work states, where they believe the machine can run better.

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SPECIAL REPORT: Site Location Factors For Automotive Suppliers

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Anticipating increased supplier site locations, it is important for supplier executives to implement site searches that consider key location factors that generate locations optimizing operational and financial success. All of these indications of expanded OEM production point to increased site location activity for suppliers.

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Feature Story: Public-Private Partnerships – An Alliance For Progress That Works

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RiverBend Commerce Park is a 185-acre site with waterfront access on the Buffalo River. The site has nearby rail access, is minutes from the Interstate and within a few miles of crossings into Canada. Navy Federal Credit Union, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Deutsche Bank. By Jenny Vickers. From the July/August 2014 issue.

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The Road to Recovery in Detroit

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The finances of a city once the center of the automotive universe are in the hands of an unelected manager appointed by Michigan’s governor. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. These have been dark days for Detroit.

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

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Among a number of benefits, this allows Brunswick County to provide industries fully developed shovel-ready sites at low or no cost. Other important factors include an abundance of certifiable “shovel ready” sites and an infrastructure with a low risk of power interruptions. 50 percent of all U.S.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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Apple’s selection of Austin as the site for its new $304-million Operations Center was the Bronze Award winner in Business Facilities ’ 2012 Economic Development Deal of the Year competition. The riverfront complex is being built on the old Advocate newspaper site. At year-end 2012, 190,900 jobs had been added with wages totaling $9.9

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