Port of Mobile, Ala.: Intermodal Growth

The Alabama State Port Authority has authorized the purchase of two industrial tracts adjacent to the Choctaw Point Complex at the Port of Mobile. The properties will provide expansion opportunities for the port’s intermodal investments. The Choctaw Complex includes APM Terminals Mobile and Intermodal Container Transfer Facility and the…

Parkland Health Clinic Underway in Dallas

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Ground has broken for a 44,300-square-foot outpatient clinic near Dallas’ Fair Park, designed by BOKA Powell for Frazier Revitalization Inc. and Parkland Health and Hospital System. The $19 million project at Hatcher Station Village will be located on a seven-acre site…

Duke Energy Selects South Carolina Properties

Duke Energy has selected five properties in South Carolina for participation in its 2014 Site Readiness Program to prepare the properties for potential industrial development. The site program is the cornerstone of Duke Energy’s economic development model. The program identifies, evaluates and improves industrial sites in the company’s…

Optimism Drives Private Company Expansion Plans

Private-company CEOs’ confidence in the U.S. economy is driving plans for expansion, according to PwC US’s latest Private Company Trendsetter Barometer. Sixty percent of the surveyed business leaders are optimistic about the US economy’s 12-month outlook, marking a year in which the majority of Trendsetter…

Online Course Starts in May: Principles of Community Branding

Ed Burghard of Strengthening Brand America has launched a new online educational program, designed for both economic development professionals, their boards and elected officials.

Given the increased number of communities looking at branding as a strategy to accelerate economic prosperity, the course should prove to be a valuable service.  

Burghard…