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After a decade-long push to rebuild the Island's only major indoor arena, culminating in the Lighthouse project finally being extinguished by the Town of Hempstead over objections to its density, town officials are weeks away from adopting sweeping zoning changes.
The town is set to rezone the Nassau Hub, providing potential investors a clear blueprint for the site's redevelopment.
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MOSCOW - Russia's Dmitry Medvedev visits Silicon Valley for the first time today, eager to reinvent his country's outmoded, oil- dependent economy - and lure talent and money from the high-tech capital.
Two years into his presidency, the 44-year-old, tech-savvy Kremlin chief still lives in the shadow of his predecessor Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, but that hasn't stopped him from strenuously pursuing pet projects, the most grandiose of which is the creation of Russia's own Silicon Valley outside Moscow.
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Eighty kilometers north of Panama City, Colón was Panama's original shipping hub, the branching point of merchants and investors of the 16th century, hundreds of years before the construction of the Panama Canal (1904 to 1914). Colón sits at the mouth of the Chagres River, Panama's largest river along the Atlantic coast, and enjoys the warm salt air blowing from the Caribbean and twice the rainfall received by the Panama City coast.
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Among the swift moves employed by hustlers of domestic economic development is a scheme whereby foreign investors can receive expedited entry to residence and eventual citizenship in the United States.
The EB-5 program provides visas to foreign investors who will help finance a company that will hire at least 10 people and leave the investment in place for at least five years. The program has been used to lure investors in both the so-called "China hub" at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and the failed Mamtek sucralose plant in Moberly.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sixteen top social entrepreneur companies vetted by leading accelerator firms including Agora Partnerships, Echoing Green, Unreasonable Institute, Slow Money, Vodaphone, Hub Ventures and Village Capital will give their corporate presentations to impact investors during the Entrepreneur Track at the fourth annual Social Capital Markets Conference (SOCAP11), held September 6-9 at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center. The sixteen were picked from a pool of eighty-one companies previously nominated by nineteen of SOCAP's partner social enterprise accelerator programs.
SOCAP11's Entrepreneur Track, September 7-8, will showcase the best social entrepreneurs in their respective areas of sustainable consumer products and services, food, education, energ...
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By JASON GERTZEN jgertzen@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel
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BEND, Ore. - Central Oregon entrepreneurs are hoping to position the Bend area as a nationwide leader in the booming renewable energy industry.
A new group, the Business Alliance for Sustainable Energy, or BASE, is forming to promote nine Oregon counties as an efficient energy hot spot.
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An ambitious plan to overhaul a swath of land along Broadway in Baltimore's Fells Point neighborhood has moved closer to reality, securing approval from a city design panel and neighborhood groups.
The Marketplace at Fells Point is the brainchild of Baltimore businessmen Daniel Winner and David Holmes, who two years ago began quietly buying up properties between Thames and Fleet streets. The two want to push investment further north from the Fells Point waterfront to rejuvenate the onetime shipping hub turned entertainment destination. Now, $15 million later, the investors have amassed nearly 50 properties that together form a key-shaped development parcel where they have proposed major renovations and new construction.
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Questions about adequate access to Boise Cascade's waterfront property have delayed sale of the land viewed by many as key to making downtown Vancouver an urban hub.
A local consortium of investors led by Gramor Development of Tualatin, Ore., was to take ownership of the 29-acre site this month. That won't happen as the group and five additional parties continue to work to design rail and vehicle access into the property and, most importantly, determine how much each entity shares in those transportation development costs.
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It was hard to listen to and harder to believe.
Many in the crowd of more than 300 investors in Greater New Orleans Inc., the ostensible regional economic development hub organization for the metro area, exchanged surprised looks last Wednesday at the annual lunch as Director Mark Drennen listed nearly 20 GNO Inc. accomplishments - all pre-Katrina.
