If You Were in Doubt, Utah Really is Global

The phrase "Utah is global" took on even greater meaning last week, when the Foreign-Trade Zones Board of the U.S. Department of Commerce approved Salt Lake City's application to reactivate Foreign Trade Zone #30.

A Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) is a geographical location, licensed by the U.S. government. Salt Lake City's FTZ will offer Utah businesses important advantages in competing on a global scale.

"This is great news for Salt Lake City and Utah businesses," says Mayor Ralph Becker, "and a great complement to the other assets we have in place as a global city."

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Pittsburgh International Airport Development Designed to Attract Business

Trammell Crow Co. will build two speculative industrial buildings near Pittsburgh International Airport later this year in hopes of attracting companies that can help build the region into a distribution center.

"Our primary goal ... is to put Pittsburgh on the global stage and to bring greater awareness of Pittsburgh International Airport to a larger pool of companies looking to expand their operations and enhance their competitiveness," he said.

The new buildings, ranging from about 100,000- to 220,000-square-feet, will be in a foreign trade zone and are suited to housing freight forwarders or other logistics operators, Bradford said. Air cargo eventually could be developed on land south of International Drive, to which Trammell Crow also has development rights, he added.

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