Mississippi Business Journal » Highland Colony http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Survey: Metro Jackson office markets showing some strength http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/survey-metro-jackson-office-markets-showing-some-strength/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=survey-metro-jackson-office-markets-showing-some-strength http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/survey-metro-jackson-office-markets-showing-some-strength/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:08:11 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=53887 Jackson’s Central Business District office market is starting 2012 much as it did 2011 with slightly more than a quarter of available space empty. That’s the good news. The CBD wouldn’t be keeping its current occupancy levels had expected lease renewals not come through, commercial real estate professionals say. Parkway Properties’ 120-building fourth-quarter office market [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/survey-metro-jackson-office-markets-showing-some-strength/feed/ 0 Assessing Metropolitan’s market timing: Experienced risk takers pulled it off http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/assessing-metropolitan%e2%80%99s-market-timing-experienced-risk-takers-pulled-it-off/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=assessing-metropolitan%25e2%2580%2599s-market-timing-experienced-risk-takers-pulled-it-off http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/assessing-metropolitan%e2%80%99s-market-timing-experienced-risk-takers-pulled-it-off/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:44:19 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=53863 It’s not like founder Curt Gabardi and his Metropolitan Bank partners decided to sell popsicles in an ice storm. But starting a bank as the nation’s financial sector verged on falling off a cliff? “Whether intentional or by chance, in a warped kind of way they probably picked the best time in the world to [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/assessing-metropolitan%e2%80%99s-market-timing-experienced-risk-takers-pulled-it-off/feed/ 0 Economic crisis gave Metropolitan Bank the opportunities it needed http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/economic-crisis-gave-metropolitan-bank-the-opportunities-it-needed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=economic-crisis-gave-metropolitan-bank-the-opportunities-it-needed http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/economic-crisis-gave-metropolitan-bank-the-opportunities-it-needed/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:25:25 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=53858 >> Gabardi’s idea was to cultivate a niche space in which Metropolitan’s bankers would compete against other bankers — not other banks As the sky seemed to be falling on the nation’s banking sector in 2008, veteran banker Curt Gabardi and his “Band of Bankers” executive corps decided there may never be a better time [...]

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