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Malls Debate Turns To Community Planning

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The risk of closing malls, the report said, has the potential to reshape entire communities, which are debating whether abandoned malls can be turned into office space or affordable housing. on the residential component. Brookfield declined to offer a cost estimate for the project.)

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Amazon To Open Manhattan Office In 2021

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Amazon said it is taking the space in the property, which is being redeveloped, without any of the special tax credits it had been offered previously. Google is forming its own community and campus,” said Victor Rodriguez, associate director of analytics at CoStar Group Inc., Facebook signed a lease for a 1.5 a real-estate data firm.

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Austin Is Bringing The FinTech Heat

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Austin’s startup community has seen a big transformation over the years. Back in 2009 when eCommerce platform BigCommerce was getting its start, Austin wasn’t considered a place where working for a startup was common. There’s a positive feedback loop here that’s causing more and more startups to be created in or move to Austin.”.

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Guest Post: Quarterly Financial Markets and Economics Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Since the recovery began in June, 2009, real GDP growth has averaged 2.3%. The two year Treasury yield reached 1.26%, its highest level since August, 2009 and the ten year Treasury yield reached 2.58%, its highest level since September, 2014. In the early 1980s, the Reagan tax cuts took two years to push GDP growth above 3.0%

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Guest Post: FInancial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

This is because the economy has been gaining momentum, however modest, from the tax cuts and deregulation. annually since 2009, while the record expansion of the 1990s saw growth of 3.6%. As well as the economy has been doing from the momentum of tax cuts and reduced regulation, there are always looming issues. since that time.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2018 Edition

Jeff For Banks

But once they turned things around they took their deferred tax asset back onto their books and did three acquisition. is the parent company of Willamette Valley Bank, a community bank headquartered in Salem, Oregon. Founded in 1980, Plumas Bank is a full-service community bank headquartered in Quincy in Northeastern California.

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What Goes Up …

Independent Banker

Coping just fine, community banks in energy-producing regions manage the oil-price plunge. Crude oil prices have dropped more than 50 percent from last July to this January, and they haven’t hovered this low since 2009. billion-asset community bank based in Happy, Texas. By Howard Schneider. percent expansion last year.