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Business and the Economy

Amazon's Winchester Center Listed Among Top Development Projects

WEKU | By Fred Petke

Published March 14, 2013 at 12:34 PM EDT

Amazon’s decision to build a customer service center in Winchester earned an award from a national magazine for investment and community impact. Trade & Industry Development magazine listed Amazon, General Electric in Louisville and Berry Plastics in Madisonville among the nation’s top 30 economic development projects from 2012 and winners of the magazine’s Corporate Investment & Community Impact Awards.

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