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Expansion Management.com E-News for April 18, 2007

Welcome! Expansion Management's weekly eNewsletter is produced by the editors of EM in order to provide business executives with news items featuring facility expansions and relocations of other companies, as well information about incentives and other assistance those companies may have received from local and state economic development organizations.

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In This Newsletter:
1. New Study Ranks Metro Areas for the Highest Concentration of Knowledge Workers
2. Expanding Biotech Companies Have a Myriad of Choices for Site Location Projects
3. Google to Open $600 Million Data Center in South Carolina
4. Matrixx Group to Open Plastics Manufacturing Facility in Virginia
5. Additional Recent facility expansions and relocations


1. New Study Ranks Metro Areas for the Highest Concentration of Knowledge Workers
Expansion Management's 5th annual Knowledge Worker Quotient compares all 362 MSAs for their ability to support the technology revolution in the United States.
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2. Expanding Biotech Companies Have a Myriad of Choices for Site Location Projects
States invest millions of dollars to attract these growing companies and the promise of more expansions in the future.
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3.Google to Open $600 Million Data Center in South Carolina

The state legislature updated the state tax code to exempt the electricity and the capital investment in equipment necessary for this kind of a facility.
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4. Matrixx Group to Open Plastics Manufacturing Facility in Virginia
The LaPorte County Council approved a request for an economic revitalization area and tax abatement to develop a 60,000 square foot building.
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5. Recent facility expansions and relocations
MilAir LLC to Expand its Thermal Products Manufacturing Facility in Miami, Ohio … Psion Teklogix to Expand U.S. Headquarters in Covington, Kentucky … Life Sciences Software Developer Maaguzi to Consolidate its Operations to Carmel, Indiana … AG Machining to Open Manufacturing Facility in Kinston, North Carolina … and other short news briefs involving companies that have recently expanded or relocated facilities.
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