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Advanced Manufacturing Driving Pittsburgh’s Economic Growth

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Capital investment in southwestern Pennsylvania totaled $2.9 Included were 206 investment deals (attractions, expansions, relocations, retentions and startups) and 69 development deals (real estate and infrastructure). The population of well-educated young professionals is on the rise in southwestern Pennsylvania.

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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Our Best Business Climate ranking evaluates an amalgamation of our key rankings results (including education climate, workforce training/availability, cost of labor, infrastructure, utility costs, credit rating and business tax climate). More than 162,000 workers are directly employed in the aerospace/defense industries in the Golden State.

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State Focus: Minnesota’s Formula For Success

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Olympus, a Pennsylvania-based maker of precision surgical instruments and related products, announced plans in November to build a $37 million research, development and manufacturing facility in Brooklyn Center. The region is a major transportation hub and travelers can reach any market in the country within three hours by air.

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Homeland Insecurity

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This is the time of year when we put together BF ‘s annual Rankings Report, so we’ve been compiling our list of the states with the Best Infrastructure. intelligence agencies. FBI agents had noticed that some characters from the Middle East were attending flight schools in the U.S.;

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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Our 2016 awards include recognition for the locations that have led the way in smart-grid modernization, innovative funding for infrastructure projects, renewable energy breakthroughs and new tools for supporting startups and entrepreneurs. and the largest road project in Pennsylvania’s history. Plenary Group USA Ltd.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

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In 2012, the Port of New Orleans completed more than $100 million in new infrastructure projects port-wide in order to grow its facilities to handle rising trade volumes tied to the Panama Canal expansion. So now an abandoned furniture warehouse in Youngstown is being converted into an advanced center for manufacturing,” said Planey.

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40 Under 40: Champions of Construction 2021

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Dakota Clifford , Virginia Department of Transportation. For this purpose, he developed and programmed an interface website as middleware between many internal and external services, such as BIM360, in order to integrate them seamlessly into the historically grown IT infrastructure at Bremer. Marcus Kratz , The Tri-M Group, LLC.