Chamber Tackles Air Quality Issues, Saving Local Businesses Millions

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

While clean energy progress remains slow at the national level, the Salt Lake Chamber has emerged as one of the top local chambers in the country driving economic development around clean energy, according to a first-of-its-kind report released today by Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy (CICE).

With ten in-depth case studies of chambers located throughout the country, Local Chambers as Change Agents: Creating Economic Vitality through Clean Energy and Innovation provides the first comprehensive look into the role of the Salt Lake Chamber and other local chambers in attracting investment, supporting business growth and diversifying their local economies around clean energy and energy efficiency.

“Businesses look at our air quality as a major factor in deciding whether to relocate to the Salt Lake region,” said Lane Beattie, president and CEO of the Salt Lake Chamber. “By working with local businesses to reduce their fuel use or use cleaner fuels, the Salt Lake Chamber is helping to strengthen our economy and keep Salt Lake City competitive. The Salt Lake Chamber is proud to be recognized as a national leader in clean energy-related economic development.”

As highlighted in the new report, the Salt Lake Chamber founded the Clean Air Champions program in 2012, seeking to proactively address the impact of poor air quality on economic development along the Wasatch Front. Through its innovative program, the Chamber shares best practices and educates businesses on converting fleets to cleaner fuels, planning more efficient routes and using teleworking to cut fuel costs. The Chamber also recognizes companies that cut their fuel use—contributing to cleaner air—through its website and radio coverage.

Companies participating in the Clean Air Champions program include:

- UPS, which has saved more than 10 million gallons of fuel since 2004 with smarter vehicle-route planning
- Rio Tinto, a global mining company that operates in Utah and saves an average of $1.65 million per year with its no-idling policy for trucks
- Architectural Nexus, which has seen its travel expenses drop by nearly $72,000 annually after implementing a new video conferencing system in place of travel

“Our Clean Air Champions program shows fuel savings have a significant bottom-line benefit,” said Ryan Evans, vice president of business and community relations for the Salt Lake Chamber. “The program has helped establish the Chamber as a leader in addressing air quality challenges and has attracted many statewide partners to help convey they importance of clean air for Utah’s economy.”

“The Salt Lake Chamber’s Clean Air Champions program is improving the economic well-being and quality of life in Salt Lake City,” said Diane Doucette, executive director of Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy. “Other local chambers can benefit by following the Salt Lake Chamber’s model of educating businesses on easy cost and fuel-saving techniques, and celebrating business champions that participate in the program.”

Based on surveys of hundreds of local chambers of commerce, CICE’s report highlights 10 chambers in Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, Illinois, Texas, Utah, Tennessee, Michigan, Massachusetts and California. By catalyzing clean energy projects in their own communities and convening stakeholders— including policymakers, regulators, entrepreneurs, investors, academics and labor groups—around clean energy efforts, these chambers are spurring new business opportunities for local companies and giving their member businesses a voice in policy discussions around clean energy and energy efficiency.

CICE’s report, Local Chambers as Change Agents, is available here. 

Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy (CICE) is a national Clean Energy network and Information Hub for local chambers of commerce. Created and led by local chambers, CICE helps fellow chambers and their member companies successfully navigate and prosper in the clean energy space. CICE provides access to clean energy information, best practices, energy experts, incentives, and business opportunities. CICE’s Advisory Council includes Chamber CEOs from every region of the country. Visit CICE at www.chambersforinnovation.com.

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Energy powers Utah economy, can boost US

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

“If budget negotiators have to rely on just two buckets—spending and taxes—to control the huge deficits we’re facing, they can’t get there. We need a third bucket—and we’ve got it in energy. And it’s fuller and deeper than anyone imagined just a few years ago.”

Tom Donohue, U.S. Chamber President and CEO

As you can see in the graphic above, energy is a big part of the Utah economy–especially when you zero in on that $1.5 billion in total wages figure. Energy has the potential to be a driving force in the  Utah economy for decades to come.

The U.S. Chamber is leading the way on energy production by calling on the president and Congress to include it as an option to help the United States resolve its long-term budget problems. The Salt Lake Chamber supports policies that encourage and facilitate appropriate energy production in Utah and nationally.

A new study commissioned by the U.S. Chamber found that in the unconventional oil and natural gas development energy sector 1.3 million new jobs can be created by 2020 and an additional 1.8 million jobs by 2035. This economic activity will generate $2.5 trillion in tax revenue by 2035.

At the end of April, Questar Corp. CEO Ron Jibson, who is the incoming chair of the Salt Lake Chamber Board of Governors and chairman of the American Gas Association, was interviewed by Bloomberg TV. He discusses some of the big issues facing the energy sector today–particularly natural gas.

 

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Practical steps to cleaner air

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Editor’s note: this post was originally published as an op-ed in the Deseret News, Sunday, March 10, 2013. You can find the original post here.  It is co-authored by Jonathan Johnson, acting CEO at Overstock.com and chair of the Salt Lake Chamber Clean Air Task Force, and Jeff Edwards, president and CEO of the Economic Development Corporation of Utah.

Already in 2013, Utah has logged more than two-dozen red air days. With extended inversions trapping pollutants in our valley, Utahns have declared it is time to do something.

In addition to the adverse impact on public health, poor air quality endangers Utah’s federal highway funding, increases the risk of greater regulatory burdens and impairs economic development and corporate recruitment efforts.

Overall emissions in Salt Lake City are not that different from other Western cities our size, but because of our unique geography and meteorology, pollutants can’t escape into the atmosphere as they do elsewhere.  We all play a part in polluting the air to some extent and enhancing our air quality will require a collective effort—including some smart public policy.

We must encourage the behaviors that will protect the unsurpassed natural beauty of our state. We should drive less. We should drive cleaner. And businesses should continue to make clean air a priority. Clean air makes good business sense and the business community is determined to be a significant part of the solution.

Overstock.com incentivizes employees to participate in a carpool program, providing as much as $80 per month and preferred parking spaces to carpoolers. It also encourages carpools by listing carpoolers on the company intranet by geographical location so employees can find groups close to where they live. Overstock.com is just one of many great examples of businesses making Utah’s air quality a top priority.

Public policy should also continue to play an important role in preserving and enhancing our air quality. Over the past two decades Utah has increased capacity on our interstate highways, greatly reducing congestion and keeping cars from idling on our freeways. Later this year, UTA will complete a multi-year effort to add 70 miles of rail over a seven-year period. These investments in our mobility infrastructure play a significant role in our clean air efforts.

There is still more we can do. We support Senate Bill 275, sponsored by Senate Majority Whip Stuart Adams. This bill facilitates fleet conversions to cleaner-burning compressed natural gas (CNG) throughout the state, improves and increases CNG refueling infrastructure and provides critical maintenance facilities.

Today there are 2,757 school buses throughout the state: 2,659 run on diesel and 37 run on gasoline.  Only 69 run on CNG. Considering each diesel school bus is the equivalent of 36 cars on the road, a determined effort to convert every bus—school buses and public transit buses—as well as heavy vehicles in the state fleet to CNG is a practical and pragmatic step that will greatly benefit our air quality.

Simple math makes this even more attractive. Today diesel fuel is $3.89 per gallon while CNG is $1.49 per gallon equivalent. Bus fleets that run on CNG will not only pollute less, they’ll cost less. Making CNG more readily available to the public also makes it sensible and financially rewarding for more of us to drive CNG-fueled vehicles.

Increasing the availability of CNG fueling stations is a win-win-win for Utah. Our state has an abundant supply of natural gas. Using more of it to fuel our vehicles and commerce reduces our dependence on foreign oil, improves our air quality and makes our state an even more attractive location for businesses and top talent looking for a place to do business.

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Jonathan Johnson is the chair of the Salt Lake Chamber Clean Air Task Force and acting CEO of Overstock.com.

 

 


Jeff Edwards is the CEO of the Economic Development Corporation of Utah.

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Utah Economic Council on Utah’s future

Thursday, January 24th, 2013

When it comes to the state economy, Utahns have every reason to be optimistic. That was the consensus of a group of the state’s top economists during a panel discussion this morning at the Annual Utah Economic Review.

Utah is currently home to the second fastest growing economy in the nation, coming in behind only North Dakota, a state riding high on the wave of an energy boom. By comparison, Utah’s success is more evenly distributed across a variety of industries. In the past 12 months, the state has created 360,000 jobs and the unemployment rate stands at 5.2 percent (eighth lowest in the country).

While Utah’s economy is growing, the continued sluggishness of the national economy is cause for concern.

“They are simply putting patches on things, and not solving problems. They are focusing on special interests,” says Alan Westenskow of Zions Public Finance. “Those in Washington are not being honest with long term expense and how things will get fixed.”

Education
Emeritus Wells Fargo Economist Kelley Matthews says another significant threat to Utah’s economy is declining rates of educational attainment. He says education is a crucial part of maintaining a prosperous economy. Having the talented labor force that a postsecondary education can provide should not only be maintained, but also expanded. The business community and governor have both set the goal of having 66 percent of adults attaining a postsecondary degree or trade certificate by the year 2020.

“We need to be thinking about long term,” says Steve Kroes of Utah Foundation.”We shouldn’t think of education as something we spend money on. We need to think about what we spend or invest in education not as a cost, but as fiscal prudence. That will be the gem that keeps Utah competitive.”

“The importance is on whether we are going to maintain the quality and productivity of that labor force going forward,” Matthews says. “Our educational attainment is dropping dramatically. We’re not going to be able to stay on this path [of growth] and retain the productivity and educational abilities that we’ve traditionally had. We simply cannot stay the way that we are or we will have a less-educated workforce, and that will immediately affect productivity.”

Energy
The economists also affirmed that Utah’s energy sector needs to be a balance to avoid what is called the “boom-bust cycle.”

“Energy development is absolutely a part of economic development,” says Juliette Tennert of the Governor’s Office of Planning and  Budget. “We are well positioned, we have a competitive advantage, and that produces high-paying jobs and business in Utah, which keeps us competitive because of low prices.”

For Utah’s future, the panel agreed we should look further down the road, beyond 2013.

“We should challenge ourselves and our companies by thinking ahead,” says Natalie Gochnour, chief economist at the Salt Lake Chamber. ”Who’s focusing on 2020? 2030? That’s what we need.”

CLICK HERE for the Economic Outlook 2013 PDF released by the Governor’s Office.

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2013 Public Policy Guide outlines business community’s priorities

Monday, January 14th, 2013

(L to R) Wesley Smith, general counsel, Salt Lake Chamber; Lane Beattie, president and CEO, Salt Lake Chamber; Becky Lockhart, Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives; Clark Ivory, CEO, Ivory Homes

With the 2013 General Legislative Session just two weeks away, the Salt Lake Chamber presented the business community’s legislative agenda this morning to legislative leadership.

You can read the official news release here. 

The 2013 Public Policy Guide outlines the business community’s position on issues including economic development, education, transportation, health reform, energy, clean air, immigration, Downtown Rising and international business.

Though it is a Salt Lake Chamber publication, the 2013 Public Policy Guide represents the broad-based support of chambers of commerce across the state as well as the other important business associations. As Utah’s largest and longest-serving statewide business association, we stand as the voice of business in our state. Our policies are well thought out and designed to strengthen the Utah economy today and over the long term.

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A year of decisions to propel the Utah economy

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Editor’s note: This post contains prepared remarks from the news conference presenting the 2012 Public Policy Guide.

Lane Beattie:

2012 can be—and we believe it will be—a remarkable year for our state.

In just a few months, downtown Salt Lake City will celebrate the opening of the City Creek Center. Our transformation from fortress malls to a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly, urban center will be complete.

Our commitment to public transit will continue to pay off as we open two new TRAX lines, one to Draper and one to the Salt Lake City International Airport.

The I-15-CORE project, the largest state funded public works project in our state history, will also be completed this year—much to the pleasure of the residents of Utah County.

2012 will mark a new beginning for the Salt Lake City International Airport. When it is complete, we will better be able to welcome visitors from the world to our state.

We will welcome some 55,000 new Utahns to the world, as our state continues to be one of the fastest growing in the nation.

2012 also marks the tenth anniversary of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games—perhaps the greatest event in our state’s long and rich history.

This year the Salt Lake Chamber will also celebrate its 125th anniversary.

Most importantly, in 2012, we also begin our second full year of economic growth since the Great Recession.

Today we release our 2012 Public Policy Guide. This guide lays out the business community’s priorities for the year. The guide was presented this morning to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House. We will deliver a copy to every member of the Legislature and other key officials later today.

The 2012 Public Policy Guide is available on our website at slchamber.com.

2012 is a year of decisions. We all know this is an election year—and a big one at that. In a few months, Utahns will assemble at caucus meetings to elect delegates. Later in the spring the delegates will choose the names that appear on the ballots in June and November. And in November we will elect a senator, four members of the House of Representatives—including our new 4th district, and vote on 91 seats in the State Legislature. We will choose a governor, a Lt. Gov. and an attorney general, as well as a state treasurer and auditor. A majority of seats on the state school board are also up for election.

But the biggest decisions we will make in 2012 will not take place in a voting booth. If we make the right decisions, 2012 will be seen as a time when we charted the path to more prosperous times.

2012 must be the year we decide to embrace optimism. Optimism for our economy that has been growing for over two years now. Optimism for job creation as our unemployment rate declines. Optimism for a brighter day that is no longer far on the horizon, but within our grasp.

2012 is the year we decide to put the Great Recession and the Grueling Recovery behind us.

2012 must be a year in which we continue to pursue the elements of the Utah Jobs Agenda. Our economy grew by more than 30,000 jobs last year. Just this morning, our unemployment rate dropped to 6 percent, and we are now two-and-a-half points below the national rate. Utah’s economy is growing at more than twice the rate of the nation as a whole.

2012 is the year we decide to protect and build on our investment in mobility. We will not jeopardize the work we have done over the past decade; we must decide to maintain what we have built and to add to it.

Health care costs continue to climb at an alarming rate and threaten the livelihood of all Utah families. Let this be the year we make decisions to firmly establish incentives that increase the level of care and not the level of cost.

Clean air is critical to public health and to the health of our economy. Business must do its part and we support efforts to preserve Utah’s unsurpassed natural beauty and the air we breathe.

As we mark the opening of the 2012 General Legislative Session next week. We call upon our elected officials to decide to make 2012 a banner year for our state.

- We must decide to be civil.
- We must decide to create jobs to help our unemployed and our underemployed.
- We must decide to be innovative and invest in both public and higher education.
- We must decide to be leaders in immigration reform and in our support of state’s rights.
- We must decide to be actively engaged in our government.

Our 2012 Public Policy Guide outlines our position and priorities. Additionally, we are focused on five big decisions we will face this year. I’m joined today by five business leaders, each will speak briefly to these points.

Civility – Todd Wolfenbarger
My name is Todd Wolfenbarger, I’m the president of The Summit Group.

2012 must be the year we decide to be civil—in our dialogue and our interaction with one another.

The Salt Lake Chamber supports civility in word and in action. Too often, people with differing opinions say and do unkind and disrespectful things. As the voice of business in Utah, we believe civility must be a guiding value in public discourse. We commit ourselves to respectful discourse and behavior toward all people. We pledge to do our part to help make Utah a more welcoming, inclusive 
and caring community.

This year we can decide to build stronger partnerships—to collaborate on great ideas—and to do together that which we cannot do alone.

Jobs – David Golden
My name is David Golden, I’m the chair of the Salt Lake Chamber Board of Governors and Executive Vice President and Manager of Wells Fargo Commercial Banking’s Mountain Division.

We must decide to focus on job creation to benefit Utah’s unemployed and our underemployed.

We stand ready to work with our elected officials to build on the momentum of our growing economy. One year ago, this Chamber laid out a private sector plan to create 150,000 jobs over five years with the first year’s goal of 18,000 jobs. We not only met that goal, we exceeded it by 25 percent. We continue to support the elements of the Utah Jobs Agenda.

We stand with the majority of our legislators in opposing a general tax increase. We support Governor Herbert’s proposal to eliminate the structural budget deficit. And we ask the Legislature to improve the regulatory environment so that businesses can put Utahns back to work.

We support the restoration of the six million dollars cut over the past three years from the Utah Science Technology and Research initiative. And we support an additional ten million dollars in life science tax credits that will boost an industry that contributes 15 billion dollars in revenue to the state.

Education – Molly Mazzolini
My name is Molly Mazzolini. I’m a partner at Infinite Scale.

We must choose to improve education in our state. We take grate pride in doing more with less, but the time has come to increase the level of investment and innovation in education. By the close of this decade, no less than nine out of every ten Utah third and sixth graders must read at grade level and be proficient in mathematics. For our economy to reach its full potential, 66 percent Utah adults must hold a college degree or skilled trade certificate.

We must choose today to embrace the Prosperity 2020 movement, we can decide in 2012 to truly make education an economic advantage for our state.

Years from now, let our children look back at 2012 as the year when we put their education at the top of our priority list. Let this be the year we decide to put them on the path to enduring prosperity. Let this be the year we make all students college and career ready. Let this be the year we recognize the critical role science, mathematics and engineering will play in the future economy—and let’s teach it to every student.

Now is the time to decide the strength our workforce.

Leadership – Ron Jibson
My name is Ron Jibson, I’m the president and CEO of Questar Corporation and the public policy chair of the Salt Lake Chamber.

Utah is a leader. We actively seek to tackle our own challenges. We must continue to foster this spirit of independence and self-sufficiency.

We must continue to address our broken immigration system. Our state is now looked to as a leader in this area. The Utah Guest Worker Law is a model for the nation but it is not perfect. We must continue to refine it and we support efforts to improve it but it should not be repealed.

Ultimately, immigration is an issue that requires a federal solution. Let this be the year our federal delegation works in concert to push for real reform.

Civic engagement – Carol Hunter
My name is Carol Hunter, I’m vice president of Rocky Mountain Power.

2012 must be the year we all take an active role in our democracy. We have a unique system in our state. On March 13th and 15th, Democrats and Republicans will respectively, elect state and county delegates.

Fifty years ago, 78 percent of Utahns voted. That number has fallen to an unacceptable level and now only one in two registered voters will bother going to the polls to participate in our most sacred civic duty.

2012 must be the year we dismiss passivity in our civic responsibility and it must be the year we all play a role in making our aspirations our reality.

Lane Beattie:
We have faced a great challenge and we have risen to meet it. Smart decisions had us better positioned for the economic downturn and smart decisions during the downturn have us positioned to a truly remarkable 2012.

Our future is in our hands. Let us decide today to make the most of the opportunities that lie before us.

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Honoring a Spirit of Enterprise

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Congressman Rob Bishop receives Spirit of Enterprise award from Salt Lake Chamber on Vimeo.

Utah’s reputation as a business-friendly state is a significant boost to our economy–it attracts business to our state and creates jobs. That business-first approach is also prevalent among the five members of our federal delegation.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently honored each of the members of Utah’s federal delegation with the Spirit of Enterprise award for pro-business voting records during the second session of the 111th Congress.

Sen. Orrin Hatch, Sen. Bob Bennett, Congressman Rob Bishop, Congressman Jim Matheson and Congressman Jason Chaffetz each voted with business at least 70 percent of the time on the highest priority issues including the passage of a tax rate extension, health care reform, financial services reform, promotion of science and mathematics education.

Utah was one of only five states to have every member of its federal delegation honored with the Spirit of Enterprise award. (Idaho, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Wyoming were the others.)

The Chamber will formally present each member of the current delegation with a letter of appreciation during a trip to the nation’s capital later this year. Congressman Bishop recently spoke to the Chamber’s Energy Task Force and he sat down with us to discuss the importance of supporting business friendly policies, how he decides to vote and his work to make America an energy independent nation.

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Salt Shaker, Sen. Hatch herald opening of Alternative Vehicle Solutions’ R&D facility in SLC

Monday, November 15th, 2010

The Salt Shakers, the official goodwill ambassadors of the Salt Lake Chamber, took part in the grand opening of Alternative Vehicle Solutionsnew 5,000 sq. ft. Research and Design facility in the greater Salt Lake area for the development of EPA Certified Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fuel delivery systems for the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and aftermarket applications. The company has already signed a long term commitment to be a supplier to the General Motors Alternative Fuel Program.

The GM dedicated CNG vans will begin rolling off the assembly line at PCI a division of IMPCO Technologies located in Union City, Indiana this month.  As GM re-enters the CNG market, the technical side will be supplied by another local based company, Natural Drive. Natural Drive has supplied the market with EPA certified conversions in the General Motors platform for the last three years.

Sen. Orrin Hatch was also in attendance for the grand opening. He expressed his support of CNG in Utah.

“Congratulations to a new Utah based green company and green jobs created by Alternative Vehicle Solution,” said Sen. Hatch.  ”I have been supporting the necessary incentives for the last 15 years to move CNG forward in Utah and throughout the nation so we can use our own abundant natural gas in our own backyard.”

The AVS Research and Development facility is located at 255 West 2950 South in Salt Lake City. The facility is ISO 9001 compliant with all the state of the art computer design capability, inspection and testing equipment to meet the strict safety and durability standards set by General Motors.

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To the Nation’s Capital

Monday, August 9th, 2010

To the Nation’s Capital from Salt Lake Chamber on Vimeo.

As Utah’s business leader, the Salt Lake Chamber stands as the voice of business, and next month a group of business will visit the Nation’s Capital to make their voice heard on issues that affect the business community.

Utah’s federal delegation and other appointed officials want to understand the opinions of Utah business leaders and this trip is your opportunity to weigh in on the key issues.

Wesley Smith, director of public policy for the Salt Lake Chamber joins us to discuss the trip and what we hope to accomplish.

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Welcome to the Neighborhood

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

There’s a new building coming to our neighborhood, Questar will move its headquarters to a soon-to-be constructed building at 333 South State Street.

Wasatch Commercial Management and Zions Bank announced the construction of the building today; the building will serve as new headquarters for Questar Corporation and provide retail and restaurant space.

A great symbol of Questar’s dedication to downtown Salt Lake City and to Utah, the building is designed by EDA Architects. EDA has designed iconic Salt Lake buildings and projects such like the Salt Palace expansion, the Triad Center, the Broadway Center Office building, the redesign of the Gallivan Center and the 2002 Olympic ski jumps.

This building will form a strong anchor in the Skyline district at the south end of downtown, complementing the City Creek project at the north end. In the original Downtown Rising vision, we foresaw the Skyline District as one bustling with activity, the home of new corporate headquarters suitable for the largest concentration of office workers.

Wasatch private investors and Zions Bank are partnering to build the $45 million corporate headquarters building.  Architects and engineers are all local, including EDA Architects, Inc., Dunn Associates structural engineers, Colvin Engineering Associates Inc., EELD Associates, Psomas engineers and Arcsitio landscape architects.

Governor Gary Herbert praised the partnership.   “The 333 South State building is a great example of free enterprise invigorating Utah’s economy,” the governor said.  “Economic recovery occurs when local businesses innovate and work together.   It’s not about government stimulus – it’s about government staying out of the way.   Wasatch Commercial Management, Zions Bank and Questar are focused on all the right priorities – using local energy to finance and build an anchor downtown building.”

The new building will be one of the first LEED Silver energy efficient buildings in downtown Salt Lake.  It will accommodate some 600 Questar employees in a floor plan that is 20 percent smaller than Questar’s current headquarters, but better organized and more efficient.

The Downtown Rising Vision has become a movement and is becoming a reality… and 333 South State is further evidence of that.

Welcome to the neighborhood.

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