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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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4 in Best Business Climate, Texas—all have been perennial contenders for BF’s top honor, the State of the Year Award: Texas and Tennessee each have won the award three times since it was created in 2007; Virginia was the 2018 SOTY; Alabama won BF’s top award in 2017. “An The center will ultimately employ up to 2,000 associates.

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Business Facilities’ 2019 Metro Rankings Report

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There are approximately 200,000 individuals employed in the tech sector in the Atlanta MSA—the sixth largest metro area in the nation for technology employment. Employment in the West Texas county is surging by nearly 12 percent, more than seven times the national average (Roper, 2019).

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U.S. Technology Sector Added Nearly 200,000 Jobs In 2017

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trillion, the tech sector is one of the largest components of the nation's economy, according to Cyberstates™ 2018. Technology Sector Added Nearly 200,000 Jobs In 2017 at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Global Technical Systems To Create 1,110 New Jobs In Virginia Beach

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GTS, which provides advanced engineering solutions for defense, homeland security, and related U.S. Construction will begin in the first quarter of 2018 and the facility will be operational in 2019. Terry McAuliffe announces Global Technical Systems’ $54.7 Photo: Terry McAuliffe via Twitter).

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Mississippi: A Winning Recipe

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Toyota Mississippi said that construction of the 15,000-square-foot visitor and interactive training center would begin in late 2018 with a targeted completion date in mid-2019. The new manufacturing operations will begin in 2018. The phase out reduces the current $2.50 tax for each $1,000 of capital by $.25

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Must expand its labor force, make new capital investment, or prevent loss of employment. May not have closed or reduced employment elsewhere in Alabama in order to expand into an enterprise zone. The credit is 20% of the actual costs limited to the employer’s income tax liability. WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT .

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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If those trends continued, Clark reckoned housing affordability in the Salt Lake metro area would follow the same path as California’s Silicon Valley, potentially creating an estimated shortage of 50,845 housing units in the Salt Lake market by 2044, according to a 2018 study by the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. “We