The food at Azalea is luxurious (sake-marinated Chilean sea bass with shrimp dumplings), the ambience hip.

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The Business Review of Albany has written about Project Azalea for months.

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The Oregonian said New York was offering "tens of millions" of dollars to win Project Azalea, a tax package Oregon probably couldn't match.

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Is the next Mos Def or Azalea Banks languishing in a region where there's no way to get his or her talent across?

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In February, The Oregonian newspaper quoted Oregon's economic development director as saying that state was competing with upstate New York and other states for Project Azalea.

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An article from Larry Rulison at the Albany Times Union says that Deloitte is searching for a major semiconductor facility for an unnamed company and believes it is TSMC who would use it build components for Apple (known as Project Azalea).

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