Business Facilities - December 2007 - (Page 39)

Italian Company Joins Innovista tenants: Missouri-based Duck Creek Technologies and Columbia’s own Collexis Holdings. All three companies were recruited through the joint efforts of the University of South Carolina, the Central South Carolina Alliance, and the South Carolina Department of Commerce. T he Loccioni Group will be the first foreign company to join the University of South Carolina’s Innovista research district in Columbia, SC. The Italian engineering firm plans to open a purchasing and operations office by year’s end, creating four or five new jobs. Loccioni will expand further by late 2008. Konrad Censi, Loccioni’s director of operations in North America, calls Innovista an ideal site because “the location is perfect, central to the state and in an area which is growing up extremely fast.” More than 100 foreign companies from 19 nations operate businesses in central South Carolina. Innovista, a 110,000-squarefoot complex, has two other Power Play. O U T H C A R O L I N A is the perfect place to work and play, with a favorable climate and geography–the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean are both right here–making the state one of the nation’s top leisure capitals. The SC Power Team will connect you with strategically located sites and buildings, state and local incentives, workforce training, and the largest electric power system in the state. Let us drive your next facility location! Abbeville County Strikes Fifth Deal of 2007 C arolina Fabrication will invest $5 million in its headquarters and manufacturing facility at Lakelands Industrial Park in Abbeville County, SC. The company plans to hire 180 employees by the end of its third year of operation, and many new jobs will be high-wage manufacturing positions requiring special skills. Renovations will be made to an existing 141,000-square-foot structure to meet the production needs of Carolina Fabrication’s clients. The steel fabrication company will operate at limited capacity until January 2008, when full-scale production is expected to commence. Contact Fred Gassaway at Fgassaway@SCpowerteam.com www.SCpowerteam.com/bf 1201 Main St., Suite 1710, Columbia, SC 29201 I (803) 254 9211 Representing the Electric Cooperatives & Santee Cooper #1503 at www.BusinessFacilities.com BUSINESS FACILITIES 39 http://www.SCpowerteam.com/bf http://www.SCpowerteam.com/bf http://www.BusinessFacilities.com

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Business Facilities - December 2007 Contents First Word Snapshots Metro Spotlight: Albuquerque, New Mexico Corporate Moves: North Carolina 2007 Ecomonic Development Deal of the Year Awards State of the Year Seeking Supply Chain Solutions Mississippi Means Business Corporate Moves: South Carolina Biomedical Momentum in Florida's High Tech Corridor Trends in Offshoring Metro Spotlight: Stillwater, OK Metro Spotlight: Atlanta, GA Advertiser Information 2007 Salary Survey

Business Facilities - December 2007

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