Mississippi Business Journal » Capitol Complex http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 14:27:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 State senator continues push for state offices consolidation http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/29/state-senator-continues-push-for-state-offices-consolidation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=state-senator-continues-push-for-state-offices-consolidation http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/29/state-senator-continues-push-for-state-offices-consolidation/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:19:07 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=72363 An effort for Capitol Complex consolidation say Mississippi — which supporters say would save $5 million a year on office leasing costs and whittle the space state workers occupy to levels consistent with federal standards — died earlier this month. The bill authored by Sen. David Blount and backed by a Millsaps College analysis easily [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/29/state-senator-continues-push-for-state-offices-consolidation/feed/ 1 Lawmakers see savings and consequences in state office consolidation http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/08/lawmakers-see-savings-and-consequences-in-state-office-consolidation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lawmakers-see-savings-and-consequences-in-state-office-consolidation http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/08/lawmakers-see-savings-and-consequences-in-state-office-consolidation/#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:08:59 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=69564 State Sen. Kenneth Wayne Jones of Madison County says saving state jobs may make it a worthwhile tradeoff to relocate more than a dozen state offices out of his county to downtown Jackson. Sen. Will Longwitz, Jones’ Madison County colleague, is not convinced. Nor is Tim Coursey, Madison County’s chief economic developer. The Legislature must [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/08/lawmakers-see-savings-and-consequences-in-state-office-consolidation/feed/ 1 Bills: Move state offices to Capitol Complex http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/01/bills-move-state-offices-to-capitol-complex/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bills-move-state-offices-to-capitol-complex http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/01/bills-move-state-offices-to-capitol-complex/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:22:54 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=69044 Downtown Jackson would see hundreds of new workers and a whittling of its office space vacancies through proposals from Senate Public Property Committee Chairman David Blount to consolidate more state agencies into space available in the Jackson Capitol Complex. In support of a pair of bills he has introduced, Blount produced an analysis from Millsaps [...]

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