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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;">Pre-lodgement meetings have increased by 24%.<br /> We’ve seen a 64% increase in Material Change of Use applications for the first part of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012 and a 10% reduction in negotiated decision requests. </span>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;">An increased awareness of the Sunshine Coast and the abundance of investment opportunities it has to offer. We have already hosted two delegations from China as a result.</span>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;">Expected to get tens of millions of dollars of building work off the shelves and on the ground.</span>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;">Council influenced the decision by Lend Lease to break down the works packages into over 250 smaller packages, providing more (and better) opportunities for local businesses to competitively tender for these works. </span><br /> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;">Sessions attended by over 1500 local businesses—36 of the 66 tenders awarded so far have gone to local businesses.</span>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;">This provides the actions to help expand the export capability of the region, grow the region’s access to key markets and start to position it to attract new investment. </span>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;">Will increase visitor numbers and bring dollars to the Coast from outside the region.</span>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;">Provide a basis for clear economic opportunities for the Hinterland while preserving and enhancing the liveability and natural settings that make the Hinterland a highly attractive place to live and visit.</span>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;">Establishment of Stellar Asia Pacific regional facility in Maroochydore – 280 jobs.</span><br /> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;">Attraction of Hearty Foods to the Big Pineapple.</span><br /> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;">Retention of the iconic Wimmers Soft Drinks in Cooroy.</span>
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