Business Facilities -November 2008

Cintas Scintillated By Philly from investments, With a aboost Rendellstate company, willGovernor Edward G. announced earlier this year that Cintas, uniform supply create at least 150 new jobs in Philadelphia. “A multi-state company is creating a significant number of new jobs in an urban neighborhood ” says Gov. Rendell. “These things don’t happen by accident. They happen because the proactive investments we’ve made in our communities over the past five years are helping to create jobs and make a significant difference. “It’s no accident that Pennsylvania is positioned to weather any national economic downturn that might be heading our way. And the budget I proposed earlier this month will help us protect our progress and do even more for communities throughout Pennsylvania.” Cintas Corporation, the largest corporate uniform supplier in North America, built a 58,000-squarefoot laundry processing facility on Edward Rendell presents a $75,000 a more than 12- PA GovernorCintas Corporation. check to the acre site it purchased at 4700 Jefferson Street. The new facility became operational in August. The Governor’s Action Team is assisting with a $75,000 opportunity grant for the $14.8-million project. Cintas also is retaining 1,564 existing positions. The Fortune 500 company currently operates three additional facilities in the greater Philadelphia area. S PHOTO CREDITS: PROVIDED BY PA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT expand operations here shows that the international community continues to take notice of Pennsylvania’s tate investbusiness enviments of $9 ronment and million helped pioneering Germany-based clean energy Flabeg choose efforts,” Gov. Allegheny County Rendell says. for its first solar Germany’s Flabeg has chosen Allegheny County “With intermirror production in Pennsylvania for its new manufacturing site. national leaders facility in the United States, creat- like Gamesa, Iberdrola, and Coning 300 manufacturing jobs and ergy already doing business in strengthening Pennsylvania’s clean Pennsylvania, it’s clear that the energy development. commonwealth has established Flabeg, a global leader in high- itself as a leader in the development tech glass and mirror applications, of clean energy solutions.” will use the facility to manufacture Pennsylvania’s Alternative Enparabolic solar mirrors, which are ergy Portfolio Standard requires used to help generate electricity at that, by 2021, at least 18% of all large-scale solar power plants. It electricity sold at retail comes from will be the company’s first U.S. clean, advanced energy resources. facility of this type. By 2021, Pennsylvania should ben“This was a very competitive efit from over 850 megawatts of project and Flabeg’s decision to solar-produced electricity. #0902 at www.BusinessFacilities.com BUSINESS FACILITIES 39 German Solar Power Producer Picks PA http://www.pennsnortheast.com http://www.BusinessFacilities.com

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Business Facilities -November 2008 Contents First Word Sanpshots Corporate Moves: Utah Kodak Develops a Megasite in Upstate New York Anatomy of a Deal: Studley Finds a New Space for Myspace Metro Spotlight: Johnson City, TN A Renaissance of Growth in Medical Plastics The Lone Star State Flexes Its Muscles Asia: A Portrait of Growth Sky's the Limit for High-tech in Arizona Corporate Moves: Pennsylvania Ohio Leads the Way Alabama's Tide Rolls to the Future IEDC 2008 Award Winners Advertiser Index Introducing Navigator Livexchange

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