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City looking to improve park by removing old Wurlitzer facility

Associated Press — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:45:44 +0000

CORINTH — The city of Corinth, according to The Daily Corinthian, is planning to revitalize a prime spot in the industrial park with hope of bringing new jobs to the city. The city-owned Wurlitzer property is the focus of the plan, which would include removal of the industrial building. Officials believe removing the dilapidated industrial [...]

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GE Aviation to choose contractor for new plant

Associated Press — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:22:49 +0000

ELLISVILLE — GE Aviation officials will soon choose a contractor to build a planned 300,000-square-foot plant in Ellisville, and hope to open it next year, company spokesman Rick Kennedy says. GE Aviation, a unit of the General Electric Co. said in July that the $56 million project was planned for the Howard Technology Park. We [...]

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Waste Pro scraps plans to build facility in Meridian

Associated Press — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:37:00 +0000

Plans to build a recycling and solid waste transfer facility at Meridian’s South Industrial Park have been scrapped. The Meridian Star reports officials of the Waste Pro company now are looking at the possibility of building the facility at Sonny Montgomery Industrial Park instead. Waste Pro, which performs residential garbage and recycling pick-up for the [...]

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County approves loan for steel plant upgrades

Associated Press — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:48:17 +0000

LOWNDES COUNTY — Lowndes County has approved a $250,000 loan for Mississippi Steel Processing and New Process Steel to continue infrastructure improvements at the county’s industrial park. The county received a Community Development Block Grant from the Mississippi Development Authority for roads, water, sewer and rail projects. The $250,000 will be borrowed from the state [...]

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Barbour transfers school land to industrial park

For the MBJ — Wed, 04 May 2011 16:40:00 +0000

MARION COUNTY — Gov. Haley Barbour has transferred approximately 370 acres of the Columbia Training School property to the Marion County Economic Development District. The land is located south of Highway 44 and will house the Marion County Industrial Park. “There is great potential for the use of this land by the Marion County Economic [...]

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MSU park making room for II-VI expansion

For the MBJ — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:58:50 +0000

STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University officials will join with U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran and U.S. Reps. Gregg Harper and Alan Nunnelee today to break ground for a new building in the Thad Cochran Research, Technology and Economic Development Park. The 1:30 p.m. public program will include comments by Cochran, Mississippi’s senior senator; Harper, the second-term [...]

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Alliance: Industrial park paid for, awaits tenants

Associated Press — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:13:35 +0000

BROOKHAVEN — For three years, Linbrook Business Park has been the scene of continuous tree-clearing, earth-moving, hole-drilling, road-grading, general destruction and precise construction. It’s also been consuming tens of thousands of taxpayers’ dollars throughout that time. Now the big machines are gone, the work is all done and elected leaders wrote the last checks in [...]

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