JACKSON — EastGroup Properties’ profit rose in the first quarter, but not as much as analysts expected. The real estate investment trust said Thursday that quarterly profit rose to $5.4 million, or 20 cents per share. That’s up 13 percent from $4.8 million, or 18 cents per share, in year-ago quarter. Analysts polled by FactSet [...] [...]
Downtown boosters were stunned last Tuesday after the House Public Properties Committee declined to act on legislation to move the Mississippi Department Revenue to downtown’s Landmark Center, thus preventing a House vote on the measure already approved by the Senate. The potential move of the DOR headquarters from Raymond into 200,000 square feet of the [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: March 19,2012
Tags: Averyell Kessler, Betsy Bradley, Brailsford and Dunlavey, Broadway, Cooke Douglass Farr Lemons, Downtown Jackson Partners, Entergy Mississippi, Haley Fisackerly, JACKSON, Jackson City Council, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Museum of Art, Pascagoula Street, Thalia Mara Hall, Washington DC
It’s said Jackson’s Thalia Mara Hall hasn’t got a bad seat in the house. But seats that are in bad shape? Those are about as plentiful as the number of days that make up the Broadway run of the “Phantom of the Opera.” Since its opening in 1968 as the Jackson Municipal Auditorium, the City-owned [...] [...]
by Lynn Lofton Published: March 5,2012
Tags: Carthage Mississippi, Grenada, JACKSON, Leslie Criss, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi College, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Still and Yet, The Carthaginian, Vicksburg Post
Once Leslie Criss got newspaper ink on her hands, there was no going back to teaching English to junior high and high school students. She began a journalism career 23 years ago and has worked for newspapers throughout the state. During that time, she has written a personal column, Still and Yet, which has touched [...] [...]
Michael Linebaugh, chief estimator, has been promoted to vice president-estimating for White Construction’s Ridgeland-Jackson location. Linebaugh has 37 years of experience in the construction industry, including 19 years as a senior and chief estimator and 18 years as owner of an estimating and software consulting firm. Linebaugh is certified by the American Society of Professional Estimators. [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: February 26,2012
Tags: agriculture, Austin, Breck Hines, CNN, CNNMoney.com, Darrah Horgan, Duckworth Realty, Eastover, Guy Boyll III, Highland Village, JACKSON, John Mackey, Luke Lundemo, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Old Canton Road, Portland Oregon, Rainbow Natural Grocery Cooperative, Texas, The District Land Development Company, Whole Foods, Whole Foods Effect
Not quite a year ago, the folks who operate Highland Village got a phone call that brought some very good news for the shopping center in Northeast Jackson. On the line were officials from Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Market, which sits at the top of the A-list of health food grocers. Whole Foods had decided [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: February 12,2012
Tags: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, Dr. James T. Tisdale, gulf of mexico, JACKSON, Joseph Green Hall, Lance Nail, M.M. Roberts Stadium, Master of Business Administration, Master of Professional Accountancy, McCarty Hall, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Ole Miss, The School of Business for Mississippi, U.S. News & World Report, University of Mississippi, University of Southern Mississippi
College expects to break ground this summer on new 90,000 square-foot home HATTIESBURG — The University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business is not looking for its future somewhere over the rainbow. The College has found it situated on an expanse of gravel between M.M. Roberts Stadium and McCarty Hall. Thanks to quicker-than-expected fund-raising, the [...] [...]
by Amy McCullough Published: February 3,2012
Tags: American truffles, Bailey's Irish Cream, caramel popcorn, chocolate-covered strawberries, chocolates, divinity, English toffee, fudge, Houston, JACKSON, Kansas, Maraschino cherries, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mr. Kegg, Nancy King, Nandy's Candy, pralines, Texas, truffles, Valentine's Day
To open the door of Nandy’s Candy in Jackson is to beoverwhelmed with the smell of real chocolate. Rich, dark, velvety chocolate. Not the overly sugared, artificially flavored, cheap disappointment. Nandy’s is the real deal. Display cases filled with American truffles, amaretto truffles, Bailey’s Irish cream, walnut clusters, pecan, cashew and almond clusters, marzipan, chocolate [...] [...]
Foreclosure rates in Jackson decreased in October from the same period last year, according to new data from CoreLogic. Statewide, however, foreclosures rates rose from 2.38 percent in October 2010 to 2.57 percent in October last year, California real estate research firm CoreLogic reported. CoreLogic said the rate of Jackson area foreclosures among outstanding mortgage [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 20,2011
Tags: Alabama, british petroleum, Dan Turner, Deepwater Horizon, Democrat, Gov. Phil Bryant, gulf of mexico, JACKSON, Louie Miller, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Development Authority, oil drilling, republican, Ship Island, sierra club
JACKSON — Allowing oil and gas drilling 10 to 12 miles south of Mississippi’s coastline in the Gulf of Mexico is a good idea because it could generate state revenue, Gov. Haley Barbour said Tuesday. The Mississippi Development Authority on Monday published proposed regulations to lease state waters in the Gulf for the drilling. The [...] [...]
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