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Updated: 09/20/2012 08:01:45AM
Polk shifting its employment base
PHOTOS BY STEVE STEINER
Jason Wiley
Rodney Carson
Brian Hinton
Patrick Brett
PHOTO BY PEGGY KEHOE
Main Street Bartow's incubator, known as The Shoppes of Central and Summerlin, is one way to help create new businesses through subsidies. Special events, like this art stroll last year, help draw potential customers.
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Polk County has some surprising assets for economic growth, and one of those is the baby boomer generation.
It seems that growing older can benefit the next generation through more than the wisdom of experience. Special needs for older patients can generate jobs in medical device manufacturing
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