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Area Spotlights

Clustered Power Attracts Powerful Cluster

The colossal data centers racking up in Western North Carolina have not gone unnoticed in the server world.

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Energy Report

In Fact It’s a Gas

Sasol and Cheniere like Louisiana so much they’re coming back for more … and bringing $16 billion with them.

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World Reports

Engineered fabrics; EMAL expands; Nokia Siemens Networks; Romania Lands EADS Plant; Concrete Wind Towers in Brazil

World Reports: Engineered fabrics; EMAL expands; Nokia Siemens Networks; Romania Lands EADS Plant; Concrete Wind Towers in Brazil

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Investment Profile

Powerful Partnerships

In Florida and the Carolinas, Progress Energy’s network ties various groups together to get deals done.

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Energy Report

Night Walks

Property management teams tend to focus on operations when
the building is occupied and experiencing normal conditions.
After all, that’s when staff members are most likely to be on
site, and when they’re likely to be getting tenant feedback
on comfort issues. But for the majority of the year – likely
between 5,000 and 6,200 out of 8,760 hours – buildings are
unoccupied.

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Energy Report

Shining a Light

In addition to its multiple investments in manufacturing plants this summer, General Motors also is doing its part for renewable energy, smart grid and electric vehicle technology.

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Area Spotlights

In This Together

The center of a tornado is characterized by a dramatic drop in pressure. It’s the twister’s aftermath that brings high pressure to bear.

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Area Spotlights

Back in the USA

Dean Sbragia had been in the medical products distribution business for 23 years when his company, Med-Fit Systems, purchased the commercial assets of fitness equipment builder Nautilus in February 2010.

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Features

Churn Stokes Upturn

Churn Stokes Upturn: At the confluence of fun and money, water recreation can be an economic catalyst for downtown riverfronts.

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Investment Profile

Ahead of the Curve

“They always seem to be there when we need them,” says Jim E. Mentesti, president of the Great River Economic Development Foundation (GREDF) in Quincy and Adams County, Ill., when asked about his community’s partnership with Ameren Corporation.

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Area Spotlights

Ready and Waiting

The U.S. Midwest is neither the unemployment capital of the U.S. any longer nor a manufacturing wasteland littered with shells of businesses that moved to China. Many certainly did move operations there, but that’s changing.

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Investment Profile

Safe at Home

Expanding firms find access to capital, knowledge workers and pro-growth incentives in Greater Philadelphia.

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Features

Points of Advantage

Online sales are booming for many retailers such as Macy’s. As its online business has grown, Macy’s has put together a regional logistics approach with three large, strategically placed distribution centers.

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International Update

Green Light

When a province is creating more than half the new jobs for its nation, chances are it’s a leader in competitiveness.

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Features

On and Off the Rails

Say what you will about intermodal freight’s ability to help regional economies. One thing’s for sure: It helps railroads’ economies.

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Features

Report: ‘Era of Less’ Widens the Gap Between Project Priorities and Funds

Ernst & Young and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) used “A Strategic Priority” as the cover line on their Infrastructure 2011 report, released in mid-May.

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Life Sciences

Good Company in Cork

A steady personnel pipeline keeps life sciences thriving in Ireland.

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Life Sciences

Report Forecasts the Future Of BioPharma R&D in India

Boston Consulting Group research explains where new value-generation opportunities await, and how to value-invest for greater return on Subcontinent location plays.

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Life Sciences

Arizona’s Bio Momentum

When you think of Arizona you may picture scenic vistas, some of the world’s greatest golf courses, the nation’s largest public university (ASU) and lots of sun.

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Investment Profile

The Deep End Of the Labor Pool

Just nine years remain before Vision 2020 — Malaysia’s blueprint for achieving fully industrialized status — is to take effect. Former Prime Minister Tun Mahathir Mohamad set the Southeast Asian nation of 28 million people on the Vision 2020 course in 1991, complete with nine strategic societal challenges to be overcome in order to become fully developed by the end of the decade.

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Features

Real Projects Mean Real Progress

The most powerful utility economic development teams are backed by corporations that don’t just move power around. They wield it.

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Cover

Make Way

A survey of global energy projects provides these snapshots of new solutions to age-old challenges. Florida Power & Light Co. (FPL) demolished the twin striped stacks and 7,500-ton boilers at its nearly 50-year-old power plant to make way for construction of FPL’s US$1.3-billion Riviera Beach Next Generation Clean Energy Center.

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Features

Up From the Brine

Peruvian firm Li3 Energy, Inc., in May closed on its acquisition of 60-percent ownership in a group of six private companies that own the Maricunga Project in northern Chile, believed to be one of the top 10 lithium projects in the world.

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Energy Report

Analysis: China, Not the U.S., Will Lead Electric Vehicle Markets

Advances in internal combustion engines will blunt the impact of rising electric-vehicle market share in the world’s major economies, and the U.S. will not be the top EV market, according to a recent report.

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