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Active Real Estate Development in Camden Holds Promise
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The real estate market is notoriously flat, and much large-scale development is on hold, but Camden, NJ somehow hasn't gotten the memo. Some observers believe that the long-beleaguered city has finally reached a tipping point...
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Delaware Refinery Rehires Hundreds of Employees and Contractors
The Delaware City, DE petroleum refinery shut down in 2009 is once again fully operational, leading to the rehiring of nearly 500 employees and up to 250 contractors...
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Philadelphia Reforms its Business Privilege Tax
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Philadelphia City Council passed – and Mayor Nutter has said he will sign – two critical pieces of legislation this month that are expected to make the city a more competitive business location.
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Global Bakery Product Maker Expands its South Jersey Plant, Adds Jobs
| Puratos Corporation, the giant Belgian maker of food products for the bakery, patisserie and chocolate sectors, broke ground November 9 on a new, $42 million, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Pennsauken, NJ...
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PhillyDeals: 3 Brazilian firms set up shop in region
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As reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Brazil, the biggest nation in Latin America, is advancing as a world economic power, and is investing in the United States amid the slump here. Burger King and Budweiser, to name two iconic American brands, are now owned and operated by a Brazilian-led international group...
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University of South Jersey Proposal
The notion of merging Rutgers-Camden and Rowan University to create a larger research institution in South Jersey has re-surfaced. The idea gained traction after Cooper University Hospital Chairman George E. Norcross III discussed the idea at a recent business luncheon...
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Drexel Hopes to Encourage Local Video Game Development
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The video game industry is lucrative, offers high paying jobs and, especially with recent technological developments, is ideally suited to start-up ventures...
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Yardley Building Supplier is the #1 Philadelphia 100
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Decision Distribution, a Yardley, PA-based, certified minority-owned and operated company, is the top-ranked 2011 Philadelphia 100 winner...
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Region's Manufacturing Sector Showing Signs of Recovery
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Manufacturing in Greater Philadelphia is showing signs of recovery, following several months of decline, according to an October survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia...
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30th Street Station Now Has its "Porch"
The University City District (UCD) earlier this month dedicated "The Porch," a new public plaza alongside 30th Street Station...
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Eighteen Regional Firms on the "Fast 500"
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Eighteen firms in Greater Philadelphia are on the prestigious 2011 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America...
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Wilmington's Vacant Property Registration Fee Program Receives National Attention
Wilmington Mayor James M. Baker and Commissioner of Licenses and Inspections Jeff Starkey marked the ninth anniversary of the City's innovative and nationally-replicated Vacant Property Registration Fee Program...
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