This is a specific focus of a weekly MBJ edition.
by Nash Nunnery Published: April 17,2011
Tags: poverty, Sugar Ditch Alley, Tunica County, Wilhelm Schulz GBBH manufacturing plant
The memories of Sugar Ditch Alley and the nation’s highest rate of poverty made infamous by a 1960s network television documentary have all but faded in Tunica County. An impoverished neighborhood in the Town of Tunica, Sugar Ditch Alley was so named for the open sewer located there. With the advent of the gaming industry [...] [...]
by Nash Nunnery Published: April 17,2011
This is not your daddy’s sleepy, little college town. For the past two decades, merchants in downtown Starkville have quietly transformed a city that was considered to be a poor third behind other Mississippi college towns such as Oxford and Hattiesburg. No more. Award-winning restaurants, boutique retail and other specialty shops and attractions are the [...] [...]
by Nash Nunnery Published: April 17,2011
Tags: 2010 Great American Main Street Award, Columbus, Jan Miller, Mississippi Main Street Association
To those that know her, Jan Miller does not just meet people – she meets friends. Miller admits that she’s never met a stranger. “I guess I get my personality from my mother,” said Miller, a district director for Mississippi Main Street Association whose territory covers almost half the state. “She worked for the commissioner [...] [...]
by Nash Nunnery Published: April 17,2011
Tags: Mississippi Economic Council, Mississippi Scholars Program, Vickie Powell
In a rare instance of win-win, Mississippi businesses from Olive Branch to Ocean Springs are increasingly emphasizing a need for students to become scholars. Specifically, Mississippi Scholars, that is. The Mississippi Scholars Program is a rewards and recognition system designed to provide high school students who elect to participate within guidelines that will help them [...] [...]
by Lynn Lofton Published: January 30,2011
Tags: Add new tag, Catherine Lott, Debbie Brangenberg, Dr. Bob Neal, Malcolm White, Rachael Carter, Steve Anderson, Tom Van Hyning
Mississippi has a wealth of festivals in every nook and cranny of the state. But, do these myriad festivals which showcase our history, culture, heritage and people bring any wealth to the communities that host them? There seems to be no central clearing house tracking the economic impact of festivals. Dr. Bob Neal, senior economist [...] [...]
by Nash Nunnery Published: January 30,2011
Tags: Chamber of Commerce Community Development Foundation, MBJ Focus, Tommy Green
Small-town upbringing, values lead Green to his ‘dream job’ Tommy Green admits he enjoyed a bucolic childhood growing up in the Mayberry-like town of Booneville. Typical of most of the small towns that dot the Northeast Mississippi landscape, Booneville is considered by its inhabitants as a mecca of family values and relationship building, says Green, [...] [...]
by Lynn Lofton Published: January 28,2011
Tags: Dr. Brent Hales, Mississippi Development Authority, Stephanie Butler
Forum on financial health held for small business owners, more planned Three pro-business entities came together to sponsor a forum to help minority and small business owners navigate the financial world, and planners say it won’t be the last such event. The forum, Preserving and Promoting the Financial Health of Mississippians, was held last week [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: December 5,2010
Tags: Harvey Johnson, Jason Goree, Metrocenter Mall, Richard Montague, Shervin Mateen
Los Angeles-based owners will consider purchase offers for ailing mall but portions of mall to be shuttered A Los Angeles real estate investment partnership that owns Jackson’s Metrocenter Mall says it has caught up on the mall’s tardy debt and will avoid foreclosure. Meanwhile, Jackson Metrocenter Group, LLC, is willing to consider offers from prospective [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: December 5,2010
Tags: Carl Allen, Central Mississippi Planning and Development District, Gray Ouzts, Harvey Johnson, Metrocenter Mall
Jackson mayor wants timely movement on ‘Go-80’ strategy With the ailing Metrocenter Mall tagged as ground zero, Jackson’s U.S. 80 corridor would see a sweeping rezoning under a city strategy for attracting businesses that are more economically viable and more beneficial to the community than the string of used car lots, fast-food restaurants, lounges, liquor [...] [...]
by Lynn Lofton Published: December 5,2010
Tags: Hancock County Development Commission, Jack Zink, Larry Barnett
Economic development activity continues in Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties Against the backdrop of a lingering recession, ongoing hurricane recovery and massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, economic development continued this year in Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties. “We have been quite fortunate with our resident industries at Port Bienville and Stennis Airpark,” [...] [...]
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