Mississippi Business Journal » Hyundai http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:16:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Kewanee still available for Hyundai? http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/02/kewanee-still-available-for-hyundai/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kewanee-still-available-for-hyundai http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/02/kewanee-still-available-for-hyundai/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:00:33 +0000 Clay Chandler http://msbusiness.com/?p=46615 If Mississippi is to attract another automaker, it will have to assemble a new megasite. Mississippi Development Authority interim executive director Leland Speed said in a commercial real estate roundtable Sept. 21 that the state currently does not have a megasite assembled that would meet the size and infrastructure requirements of an automotive manufacturer. Speed’s [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/02/kewanee-still-available-for-hyundai/feed/ 0 Read the October 3rd issue of the MBJ online http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/30/read-the-october-3rd-issue-of-the-mbj-online/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=read-the-october-3rd-issue-of-the-mbj-online http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/30/read-the-october-3rd-issue-of-the-mbj-online/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:51:09 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=46583 In this week’s MBJ, Clay Chandler examines whether there is a megasite available for a new Hyundai plant. The MDA’s Leland Speed says there are no sites available. However, the East Mississippi Business Development Corp. executive director Wade Jones says the 1,400-acre Kewanee site is still available for Hyundai or anyone else that wants it. [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/30/read-the-october-3rd-issue-of-the-mbj-online/feed/ 0 MBJ Editorial: Jobs and eminent domain … letting fear strike us out http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/17/jobs-and-eminent-domain-letting-fear-strike-us-out/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jobs-and-eminent-domain-letting-fear-strike-us-out http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/17/jobs-and-eminent-domain-letting-fear-strike-us-out/#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:00:47 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=43546 Economic development recruiters don’t use brass knuckles when they fight to get a big employer to come to their state. But they probably would if they could. That is the kind of pier six brawl recruiters walk into at the start of every economic development competition. The last one standing walks away with the deal [...]

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