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They are probably laying off IT people at the banks and contracting out to Spectra. Not really something to incentivize at the state level.

So is this just an IT body shop?

Same with Continental, and they have their US HQ in Fort Mill/Lancaster County.

I don't know if this has been posted before, but the UNCC library has an interesting digital collection page where they've scanned documents from the urban renewal era. http://digitalcollections.uncc.edu/cdm/search/searchterm/brooklyn/order/nosort The reports are interesting, especially on the quality of housing stock and analysis of the human capital neighborhood by neighborhood. I've lurked around here long enough to know that the brooklyn neighborhood is often talked about as a missed opportunity... take a look at the documents and see what was salvageable about the inner neighborhoods, I don't think they really had too much to work with.