Two of the three golf courses, designed by golf legends Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf, are closed and their brown grass has been an eyesore and a turnoff to some potential buyers, local real-estate agents and builders say.
"From control over buses and trains and the freedom to plug skills gaps, to powers to 'earn back' tax and set up local investment funds to spend on local projects - the deals are unlocking the huge potential of our cities, " he said.
But, says Jamie Nicholson of Warburg Dillon Reed, an investment bank, with car makers and other steel buyers increasingly looking for local suppliers to make just-in-time deliveries, the export potential of high-value products is not good.
Unlike some Web-based phenoms, the location check-in service Foursquare has an obvious potential business model: local ads based on your geographic location, perhaps coupled with inferred interests from your previous check-ins.
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The bans stem from local residents' concerns about potential adverse impacts if the state lifts its 5-year-old moratorium on gas drilling using high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which frees gas from deep shale deposits by injecting wells with chemical-laced water at high pressure.
And when it comes to local news, Martin - Chairman Martin of FCC believes that combining the news-gathering potential of a TV station and a newspaper newsroom can only help both organs at a moment when both have to compete with the dreaded Internet.
Free-range production now looks to have the potential to reverse the sharp decline in local egg production.
Then, in early June, the White House's Year 2000 office will begin traveling to communities to promote town hall-like meetings that will bring together local officials, citizens and service providers for discussions on potential Year 2000 failures.
Part of the debate over seizures involves a potential conflict of interest: Under a 1984 federal law, state and local law-enforcement agencies that work with Uncle Sam on seizures get to keep up to 80% of the proceeds.
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Consider hosting your own mixer -- a seminar or breakfast -- on topics that are of interest to potential customers: the benefits and drawbacks of E- commerce, say, or a local business issue.
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