County's giveaway draws business, boosts economy.
Calvert County, Maryland, offered free land in its industrial park to attract business. Developed in the mid-1970s, the industrial park had 16 vacant lots in the summer of 1997. To qualify for free land companies had to be involved in high-technology businesses, such as computer programming or sof...
| Publicado en: | American City & County Vol. 115; no. 11; pp. 18 - 21 |
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Penton Media, Inc.
August 2000
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