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A new $240 million Nature’s Bakery plant opened yesterday in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Photo courtesy of Mars, Inc.
Mars, Inc., this week announced it will invest $2 billion into U.S. manufacturing after allocated $6 billion over the past five years. The investments include a $240 million, 230-job investment in a Nature’s Bakery facility holding its grand opening yesterday in Salt Lake City and a $450 million, 270-job Royal Canin dry pet food facility that opened in Lewisburg, Ohio, earlier this year.
Since 2015 the Conway Projects Database has documented 21 major facility investments from Mars and its various divisions, including projects in India, the UK, China and Russia as well as in Texas, Illinois and Georgia.
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This 2024 photo of the Grand Steps at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City illustrates some of the findings in a new MIT study: Public space, altered by mobile phone use and the proliferation of indoor meeting places such as coffee shops, has become more of a thoroughfare and “less a space of encounter.”
Photo by Elena Chertovskikh: Getty Images
A new study co-authored by MIT scholars finds that the average walking speed of pedestrians in three northeastern U.S. cities increased by 15% from 1980 to 2010, while the number of people lingering in public spaces declined by 14%. “What we’re seeing here is that public spaces are working in somewhat different ways, more as a thoroughfare and less a space of encounter,” said MIT professor of the practice Carlo Ratti, a co-author of the study.
The researchers used machine-learning tools to assess 1980s-era video footage captured by renowned urbanist William Whyte, in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, said an MIT release, then compared the old material with newer videos from the same locations: Boston’s Downtown Crossing area; New York City’s Bryant Park; the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (pictured above); and Philadelphia’s Chestnut Street. “When you look at the footage from William Whyte, the people in public spaces were looking at each other more,” Ratti says. “It was a place you could start a conversation or run into a friend. You couldn’t do things online then. Today, behavior is more predicated on texting first, to meet in public space.” Outdoor group socializing also may be less common due to “the proliferation of coffee shops and other indoor venues. Instead of lingering on sidewalks, people may have moved their social interactions into air-conditioned, more comfortable private spaces.”
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Photo courtesy of Northwestern University
One of the universities leading the way in R&D is Northwestern University, whose research has a $3 billion economic impact ($1.9 billion in Chicagoland alone) and supports 14,500 jobs nationally. An aerial view from above the university’s Kellogg School of Management takes in the Lake Michigan shoreline and the Chicago skyline.
