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PENSACOLA, Fla. (WEAR) — It's been almost 11 months since the City of Pensacola broke ground on a multimillion dollar aerospace facility at Pensacola International Airport. Things are moving fast on the VT Mobile Aerospace Engineering (VT MAE) project that's set to bring hundreds of jobs to the area. The city is really excited about the progress being made on the project. VT MAE is expected to benefit not just the airport, but the surrounding community as well. The VT MAE project at the airport is more than halfway to be completed. David Penzone, a consultant for the city said,...

Minnesota’s Department of Commerce dealt a blow to Canadian pipeline-maker Enbridge with a report that said the replacement of the Line 3 pipe that runs through the state is unnecessary, as is the pipe itself. Line 3 brings in crude from Canada to a terminal in Wisconsin and passes through northern Minnesota. Enbridge plans to replace the pipeline, which was built in the 1960s, with a new, extended one. This will cost some US$6.5 billion, but environmentalists and the state government believe it will threaten water resources in the area.

Suburban housing construction has ground to a halt in Northern Virginia, according to county officials from the region, due to a law that changed the state's proffer system. "New home development has slowed across Northern Virginia since new rules kicked in last summer limiting what public infrastructure developers were allowed to pay for as part of new construction projects," reports Max Smith. That assessment was delivered by elected officials from around the region attending a meeting on the subject earlier this week. Officials from Loudon, Fairfax, and Prince Williams counties agree that housing construction has slowed since the law took...

SEATTLE - Amazon's announcement Thursday that it's looking to base a second headquarters in new North American location garnered quick reaction from leaders across the state. While the company said that it plans to keep its Seattle space, it will spend more than $5 billion to build another "full equal" headquarters that will house as many as 50,000 employees. Cities and states have a month to apply, and the company will make a final decision next year. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray speaks at a news conference at City Hall Wednesday, June 14, 2017, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) Kshama Sawant:...

Prime Minister Theresa May has asked US President Trump to help broker a deal in a bitter aerospace trade dispute which could financially devastate one of Northern Ireland's biggest employers. Canadian aerospace giant Bombardier, which employs around 4,500 people in Belfast and accounts for 10% of the region's manufacturing exports, is facing significant costs in a spat with US aeronautics powerhouse Boeing. The dispute centres over Boeing's allegations that Bombardier received subsidies allowing it to sell its CSeries planes at below-market prices. The US Department of Commerce is expected to announce a decision on whether to impose duties against Bombardier...

There are milestones in life – personal, educational, religious – these may be birthdays, school graduations, wedding anniversaries, baptisms and first communions and bar mitzvahs. So many personal dates to remember – but they are worth remembering, because they are so meaningful to us. Even the sad ones are worth remembering; the day we lost a friend or family member to cancer or accidental death, or old age. By the same token, there are milestones in history. The date of a declaration of war or of the peace treaty that ended it; the day our Founding Fathers signed our Declaration...

Nonwoven fabrics manufacturer WPT Corp. will open a $6 million, 40-job plant — its second in Ohio County — to add capacity for materials used in hygiene and filtration products such as diapers and furnace air filters, Gov. Matt Bevin announced today. “As a family-owned and operated company, WPT Corp. is taking a major step forward in establishing a new production facility. Our state and local economic development efforts provide support for exactly this kind of business growth across Kentucky,” Gov. Bevin said. “We congratulate both the company and the Ohio County community on this new project and look forward...

Oracle Corp. is hiring another 5,000 employees for its cloud software business as it fights Salesforce.com Inc. for market share in the fast-growing industry. The hiring surge aims to beef up what’s already Oracle’s fastest-growing business, increasing revenue by 58 percent in the quarter it reported June 21 compared with a year earlier. The move is the latest in a back-and-forth between Oracle and its main rival that last week saw Salesforce Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff bragging he was on track to generate $10 billion in cloud revenue this year, a goal Oracle was trying to hit first. It...

Paycor Inc., one of the largest and fastest-growing companies in Greater Cincinnati, will bring an expected 1,000 additional jobs to its home state. In December 2016, Paycor received approval for a 3.1 percent, 15-year job creation tax credit from the Ohio Tax Credit Authority to create 1,064 jobs with a total payroll of more than $76.6 million. At the time, the Norwood-based payroll and human resource services provider hadn’t decided where those jobs would be located. Now, more than eight months later, the company has decided it will expand its existing headquarters in Norwood. The expansion will more than double...

Content marketing is one of the best ways that you can bring new customers to your eCommerce store. Eighty-two percent of consumers report developing a positive opinion on a company after reading content produced by them. Also, 70 percent of consumers prefer to learn about a company and its products through content like blogs and articles, as opposed to advertisements. As if that wasn’t enough, content marketing tends to cost about 60 percent less than other types of conventional marketing and generates about three times more leads. Tips on Content Marketing for eCommerce However, content marketing can be difficult to...

A number of people have argued over the past few days that Hurricane Harvey will NOT boost the US housing market. As if any such argument would or should be required. Hurricane Irma will not provide any such boost either. News about the ‘resurrection’ of New Orleans post-Katrina has pretty much dried up, but we know scores of people there never returned, in most cases because they couldn’t afford to. And Katrina took place 12 years ago, well before the financial crisis. How do you think this will play out today? Houston is a rich city, but that doesn’t mean...

Employers in Hamilton County were struggling to find workers in the fall of 2015, back when the county’s unemployment rate was 3 percent—a rate that’s easily within the realm of what experts consider “full employment.” But today, the situation is even worse (or better, depending on your perspective). In July—the last month for which data is available—the county’s unemployment rate had dropped to 2.8 percent. And it has been even lower recently—it was 2 percent in April, the lowest monthly rate seen since 2001. That’s made filling open jobs—both existing ones and the thousands of new ones being added across...

All the Raisinets in the world aren’t enough to sugarcoat this fact: In recent months, the Hollywood box office has been a disaster. In terms of attendance, Tinseltown just wrapped up its worst summer at the box office in nearly a quarter-century. That means theaters now have to fight harder than ever to get butts in seats. “For a very long time, movie theaters were not overly focused on pleasing the consumer,” says Eric Handler, a media analyst at MKM Partners. But in recent years, he says, theater owners have wised up to a novel idea: making the theater experience...

The Potentiam network was created to find the much-needed balance in the music and content distribution sub-industry. It is the new music distribution network created by veterans in the industry and powered by the Blockchain network. Potentiam is poised to put back the power to earn in the hands of content producers and their fans. Potentiam was borne out of the desire to proffer solution to the myriad of challenges faced by music artist, content producers and all those who strive to make music possible. Potentiam was designed and is promoted by the same music veterans that founded Britznbeatz in...

A couple years ago, I bought the best-fitting pair of running shoes I’ve owned in a decade. This is significant because I have rather oddly shaped feet and the break-in process for shoes can be uncomfortable. This pair was different because I was able to search through dozens of shoe models on a website, following directions to determine the best fitting shoe. I was able to purchase a ready-made shoe at a reasonable price. They fit wonderfully. These shoes were available because a relatively free market allowed engineers in one country to design the shoes, workers in another country to...

20/20 Custom Molded Plastics, a custom structural form molding manufacturer, will locate a new facility in Bluffton, IN. The Ohio-based company will move into the former home of Buckhorn Inc. and plans to hire many of its workers, ultimately creating up to 155 jobs by 2020. Bluffton“20/20 started molding structural foam parts for customers in 2000 and has increased its customer base and molding capabilities on a consistent basis year after year,” said David Rupp, owner at 20/20 Custom Molded Plastics. “We are excited about expanding our manufacturing operations to the Bluffton community and look forward to growing our business...

TULSA, Oklahoma - A 70-year-old manufacturing company from Wisconsin will bring a new facility to Tulsa and is expected to create hundreds of jobs. Thursday afternoon the community, along with Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and Governor Mary Fallin, met to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new Greenheck Group Facility. The company's new campus will be located near Apache and 129th East Avenue in Tulsa. During the first year of operations, the company expects to hire about 75 employees. As the company expands, they hope to employ up to 900 people over the next 10 years. Hiring will begin for the...

Amazon is planning to build a second headquarters that could measure up to 8 million square feet — and create 50,000 jobs, many of which pay $100,000 or more. The company is calling the second site "HQ2." It is asking cities to bid on the project, which is expected to cost $5 billion to build and operate. Amazon is prioritizing metropolitan areas with at least 1 million people. “We expect HQ2 to be a full equal to our Seattle headquarters,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement. “Amazon HQ2 will bring billions of dollars in up-front and ongoing investments,...

A resident of my city of Pacific Grove recently did a huge service on Facebook by linking to a site that gives pay and pensions for state and local government workers. It's breathtaking. Question: Who received the highest pension in 2017 and how much was it? Answer: Ronald D. Miller. $366,529.20. Mr. Miller was on the teaching faculty at the University of California, San Francisco. The 7th highest pension, by the way, was received by someone I know and like: Richard W. Roll, the well-known finance professor at UCLA. So this is not a gotcha. It's simply pointing out...

Gov. Scott Walker today announced WEDC is providing Gold Standard Baking Inc. with up to $575,000 in tax credits to support the Illinois company’s expansion in Kenosha County – a project expected to create 96 jobs. In addition to the 96 jobs expected to be created by Gold Standard Baking, an economic modeling study estimates the expansion could indirectly generate 75 additional jobs in the region. Those 171 new jobs could generate up to $1.6 million in state income tax revenue over a five-year period. The new 200,000-square-foot facility in Pleasant Prairie, which opened in July, is expected to operate...