NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS

The Menlo Park City Council in late March approved all requested land use entitlements and agreements for the Facebook West Campus Project, and introduced ordinances approving the development agreement and rezoning the property to accommodate design requirements surpassing existing height limits.

Three early 2013 rankings and reports offer some guidance from the fringes of the site selection matrix.

Following up on two separate projects whose feasibility studies were announced just over a year earlier, South Africa-based energy and chemicals company Sasol announced in early December it will combine them into one complex. This and other stories from around North America

College students are no different from the companies that one day will hire them in looking for their own best return on investment, which is why the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) this fall released its 2012 AIER College Destinations Index (CDI), which examined a dozen factors in evaluating the 227 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) with student populations of 15,000 or more.

University spending on research (R&D) in all fields increased 6.9 percent between FY 2009 and FY 2010 to US$61.2 billion. University of Florida Innovation Hub, Tijuana, Mexico tax incentives.

Data on repurposed automotive plants, the U.S. vs. the world in compensation levels, energetic trends in state GDP, Nissan in Mexico, EB-5 and visa trends, and worldly schools and students.

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North American Reports: Blu Homes To Build Prefab Eco-Homes By Deep Blue Sea; ‘They Were There Last Time We Checked’; Billion-Dollar Bounce In South Carolina

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