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This week’s economic impact report on AllianceTexas shows a staggering overall impact total: $33.8 billion on North Texas communities. One of the most successful public-private partnerships in the United States, AllianceTexas has been in a vital economic engine for 20 years. Approximately $100 million of combined initial investment from the city of Fort Worth, the […]


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This week’s economic impact report on AllianceTexas shows a staggering overall impact total: $33.8 billion on North Texas communities. One of the most successful public-private partnerships in the United States, AllianceTexas has been in a vital economic engine for 20 years. Approximately $100 million of combined initial investment from the city of Fort Worth, the […]
04/12/2021
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    Latest: AllianceTexas’ Success Nears $34 Billion - This week’s economic impact report on AllianceTexas shows a staggering overall impact total: $33.8 billion on North Texas communities. One of the most successful public-private partnerships in the United States, AllianceTexas has been in a vital economic engine for 20 years. Approximately $100 million of combined initial investment from the city of Fort Worth, the […]

    Economic Development

    AllianceTexas’ Success Nears $34 Billion

    This week's economic impact report on AllianceTexas shows a staggering overall impact total: $33.8 billion on North Texas communities. One of the most successful...
    Economic Development

    Creating a “Monster” in Florence, SC

    Representatives from the Florence County Economic Development Partnership, the South Carolina Department of Commerce and Red Rock Developments joined Monster officials this month to...
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    $26-million Investment Hits North Carolina

    Precor Incorporated, one of the most respected brands in fitness equipment, announced today that they will open a new Southeast manufacturing, assembly and distribution...
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    Lee County, FL launches $25 million cash incentive for expanding/relocating businesses

    At a time when tightening credit markets are limiting dollars for economic development, one Florida county has responded with a $25 million cash incentive...
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    Investments in St. Louis Metro East approach $9.5 billion

    After shattering records in 2006-2007, the development pipeline for Southwestern Illinois continued to swell over the past year, reaching a new high of more...
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    Kansas will be site of new $450 million biodefense lab

    The federal government has recommended a site in at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS, for a new $450 million laboratory to study biological...
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    Piracy: The Illegal Incentive

    In the civilized, regulated realm of economic development, there are heaps of financial incentives, job training programs, small business loans and corporate tax rebates...
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    Bismarck isn’t sinking

    The economic wise men gathering around President-elect Obama in Chicago will be heading to Washington next month to try to jump-start the faltering U.S....
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    Power portal

    Anyone who has taken a ride on Washington's Metro subway line knows that when it comes to making capital improvements in the nation's capital,...
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    Bratislava Is Not Detroit, Just So You Know

    As they continue their pleas for a federal bailout (hopefully while forgoing end-of-the-year bonuses and use of corporate jets), the figureheads of major U.S....
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    Tonic for the China syndrome

    The dispatches from the front lines of the global economic catastrophe have taken on a markedly schizoid quality during the past few...
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    Recipe for success in tough times

    The deepening economic malaise makes it imperative that businesses seize every potential revenue-generating opportunity that presents itself in coming months. The companies that succeed...
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    Magician makes $250 billion disappear

    Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson emerged from his bunker in the epicenter of the financial crisis today to give us an update on his...
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    The New Silk Road

    It was announced today that the central Asian country of Kazakhstan will receive $700 million from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to construct a...
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    Red, white and blue states

    Abraham Lincoln was the first president to refer to America as ''the United States'' instead of ''these United States.'' When he dedicated a cemetery in...
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    Pity the fool

    When Alan Greenspan presided over the Federal Reserve for 18 years, he periodically appeared before Congress to mutter some ethereal bromides ...
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    Live from Germany, It’s Monday Night!

    This afternoon, I had the privilege of interviewing Volker Hoff, the minister of federal and European affairs for the German state of Hessen....
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    Crimson tide swamps Birmingham

    The fiscal tsunami triggered by the collapse of Wall Street's investment banking giants is poised to drown an entire county in Alabama. According to a...
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    You’ve got a new partner, Bjorn

    After some brief consultations with their new friend in Moscow, Iceland's leaders hastily announced that oil-rich Russia had agreed to loan the country $5.4 billion, roughly the equivalent of a third of Iceland's GDP.
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    Philadelphia success story

    In June, we took note in this space of Sheriff John Green of Philadelphia's refusal to enforce court-ordered foreclosure auctions in the city. The...
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    Save U.S.

    Here's the understatement of the year for you: The United States is in some pretty deep trouble. As our presidential nominees debate whether or not...
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    Hydrogen-powered road test

    When you turn the ignition key in your car and nothing happens, the first thing most of us do is get out and check...
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    Bridge to nowhere

    In one of our favorite Honeymooners episodes, Ralph Kramden's buddy Ed Norton is bragging about an investment he just made in a new firm...
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    Rebuilding of World Trade Center site is still years away

    Within months of the hideous terrorist attack in 2001 that destroyed the World Trade Center, state and city officials in New York unveiled ambitious...
    Economic Development

    Cali is Growing Smarter by the Mile

    When I was an undergraduate student in Bethlehem, PA, I made a friend from California who told me something I still remember to this...
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    Tapping out an S.O.S.

    When we last left the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Depression-era aqency that backs up our bank accounts was trying to keep a lid...
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    Trump this, Donald

    Does the cube farm in your office have the population density of Shanghai? Do you eat your lunch next to the copy machine because the...
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    The Mom and Pop Shop’s Gritty View of Government

    Small business owners in the United States are overwhelmingly disillusioned and dissatisfied with the federal government, according to a recent press release from American...
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    Biotech, biotech sis boom bah!

    When cheerleaders from Ohio and Pennsylvania start shouting at each other, it's usually because Penn State's Nittany Lions and The Ohio State...
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    Dollar keeps falling, but Tennessee is rising

    A few months ago, we reported in this space that there is a silver lining in the generally depressing story of the plummeting U.S....
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    The three-legged frog that ate Nutley

    For the past 80 years, Nutley, NJ has been a company town. For as long as anyone can remember, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant ...
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    LEED Gets A Makeover! Americans Get Bored?

    Yesterday, I received a press release from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announcing the new certification bodies for the LEED Green...
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    Spittin’ in the wind

    When we last left Rex Tillerson, chief executive of Exxon Mobil, the $479 billion fossil fuel empire he commands was proudly announcing...
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    Hottest ticket in town

    A rather bizarre sight greeted tax attorney Mark Vulcan when he arrived for work at the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED)...
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    Fannie Moe, Larry and Curly

    As panicked depositors lined up in sweltering heat out West to bang on the doors of the shuttered IndyMac banking giant, the...
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    Retail: Open for Business!

    Back in May, Business Facilities ran a special advertising article on the retail industry, which highlighted a couple of U.S. retail hot spots....
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    “Coal” is the New “Casino”

    As I posted in April, Native Americans continue to push past stereotypes that peg their economic development efforts as nothing more than roulette wheels...
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    Selling ice to the Eskimos

    There is a classic scene in the Simpsons movie when Homer and his family—arriving in Alaska to hide out from the EPA after...
    Economic Development

    New Camrys equipped with cable TV, dirty dishes

    Does all the talk about the coming wave of electric cars have you thinking about extension cords? Or, to be more specific, do you...
    Economic Development

    Ahnold terminates the competition at BIO

    About two dozen state economic development programs were showcased at last week's BIO conference in San Diego, but for at least one...
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