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Feature Story: Shovel-Ready Sites – Fired Up, Ready To Go

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One of the fastest growing trends in the site selection business is the demand for certified industrial sites. Companies looking to build new facilities want sites that are ready to go and relatively risk free. ALABAMA SITES ARE READY FOR JOB-CREATING GROWTH. Across the U.S., million in capital investments.

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15 Tennessee Communities To Receive Site Development Grants

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Site Development Grants totaling $5.7 million will be awarded to 15 Tennessee communities to prepare economic development sites for market. The Site Development Grant program is part of the state’s larger Rural Economic Development Fund. “We Department of Agriculture selected the 15 sites from a pool of 24 applications.

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COVER STORY: Shovel Ready Sites Are Growing From The Ground Up

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are implementing site certification programs called “shovel ready”—meaning that the site is primed and ready for economic development. Certified shovel ready sites are in growing demand among companies and site selection consultants, and they are an increasingly popular tool for communities to attract new business and industry.

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How to plan your warehouse layout

The Korte Company

They protect inventory and, when built right, improve on the efficiency with which that inventory is received, sorted, retrieved and shipped. Will the site require many loading docks or just a few? Can these connections be customized, or must the site work with existing infrastructure that cannot be altered?

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Louisiana Economic Development Wins Deal of the Year: Bronze Award

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billion ethylene production complex on a 1,000-acre Greenfield site in St. Louisiana has the most extensive network of pipelines in the nation, and offers unmatched supply-chain access to domestic markets via railroads and barges. In September, Taiwan-based Formosa Petrochemical Corp. FPCC) announced it will build a $9.4-billion

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

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Logistics incorporates the complexity of integrating information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling and packaging. business logistics costs include three main categories: Inventory Carrying, Transportation and Administration. The Railroad sector was the big winner with a 15.3 trillion in 2011, a 6.6

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Linking The Global Supply Chain

Business Facilities

A number of states are now in the matchmaking business, all trying to help companies solve their increasingly complex and demanding supply chain issues.