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Local Governments Move In On Retail Vacancies

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Craftmakers, according to the regulation, must sell as well as manufacture, with the retail side of the business-boosting commerce in mixed-use districts. The new regulations encourage interaction with the public by also mandating that the artisan businesses offer attractions such as tours and classes. and San Francisco.

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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

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“The point is this: There’s a lot of these surveys, and when you read them, they are New York City, San Francisco, Chicago. Certainly, one asset class, the regional mall, is quite dead,” Kirby said. Deferred maintenance and missed tax payments are other red flags for financial institutions to monitor.

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How Prepaid Cards Played A Role In El Chapo’s Global Drug Operation

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-Mexico border (sophisticated tunnels, modified trains and rail spurs, even jalapeño cans designed to fool border inspectors), and whose main distribution points were Lost Angeles, Chicago and New York City. Criminals can direct federal or state tax authorities to issue fraudulent tax refunds on prepaid debit cards.”.

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Navigating The Regulatory Labyrinth Of Gig Economy Payments

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Webster, describing the payments conundrum as the “nasty underbelly of making these payments to any worker in any environment,” suggested it could be summed up in a single word: regulation. Payment regulations, prepaid card regulations, controlled currencies,” Monty began.

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Disrupting The Car: How Shared Cars, Bikes, & Scooters Are Reshaping Transportation And Cannibalizing Car Ownership

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As a result, a number of mobility startups have emerged, deploying new transportation models that stand to disrupt personal car ownership in dense urban regions, and potentially in more suburban regions moving forward. San Francisco was one of the first cities to tackle scooter regulation.

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17 Of The Biggest Startup Frauds Of All Time

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Zenefits skirts compliance regulations. Zenefits skirts compliance regulations. In addition, regulators claimed that as many as 80% of insurance plans sold in Washington state by Zenefits reps were sold illegally by unlicensed brokers. Table of contents. Theranos and the revolutionary blood tests that never existed. The Outcome.

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The Future Of Housing: From Home Building To City Planning, Tech Giants & Startups Are Reimagining Where & How We Live

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Faced with these challenges, cities are using a combination of regulations and incentives to try to address the housing shortage, but few look likely to fully solve these issues. Given the abundance of lumber in Canada, timber activity has been largely concentrated in the region, but increasingly it is gaining traction in the US.

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