Renewed demand for manufacturing space — especially for a facility equipped to take in immense amounts of electrical power — makes the soon-to-be-vacated Twin Creeks Technologies building in Senatobia a strong bet to attract a buyer or tenant. So say economic development specialists and real estate professionals in assessing the future of the 85,000-square-foot solar-panel [...] [...]
Marlo Dorsey, who stepped into the job as chief marketing director of the Mississippi Development Authority in early December, has hit the ground running in a job that remained vacant for more than a year. That has led to a backlog of demand for decisions on how to best market Mississippi. “Now, every time I [...] [...]
Malcolm White will soon leave his post as executive director of the Mississippi Arts Commission to become the director of the Mississippi Development Authority’s tourism division. White will start at the MDA in January. White, who owns of Hal and Mal’s, one of Jackson’s most popular eateries and bars, is a member of “The Culture [...] [...]
Last spring turned bleak for supporters of an effort to get a new main education building built for the University of Mississippi Medical School in Jackson. No bond issue would be coming from the Legislature to back the 151,000 square-foot construction project which the year before had received $4.5 million from legislators for preliminary planning [...] [...]
Ocean Springs Chamber of Commerce-Main Street-Tourism Bureau executive director Margaret Miller was chosen as one of the top tourism professionals in Mississippi at the annual Governor’s Conference held in Tunica by the Mississippi Tourism Association and Mississippi Development Authority’s Tourism Division. Miller was given a Tourism Hall of Fame Award. Miller has been with the [...] [...]
Automatic Data Processing, a business-outsourcing provider more commonly known as ADP, is shutting down in Clinton and moving its approximately 100 jobs to Augusta, Ga. New Jersey-based ADP has not responded to phone calls over the last couple of days but a spokesman for the Mississippi Development Authority confirmed the company’s departure from the South [...] [...]
Like any good salesman about to embark on selling a new product, Brent Christensen has assessed his product’s strengths and weaknesses. The new executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority sees the state set to play a strong hand in the energy and health care sectors. Mississippi’s hand is on the weak side, though, in [...] [...]
Speaking publicly for the first time since taking over as head of the Mississippi Development Authority June 6, Brent Christensen sounded optimistic notes on the state’s prospects in the energy and medical sectors but cautioned strides must be made in preparing Mississippians for 21st century jobs. In a talk before the Madison County Business League [...] [...]
Veteran newspaperman Michael Stewart has been named the Meridian Star’s executive editor. Publisher Crystal Dupre says Stewart come to Meridian after working the last three years as both the north county editor of the Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., and as the editor of a sister paper to that publication, the [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: August 9,2012
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>> CLASS CRUNCH Experts: Troublesome nursing faculty shortage to get worse— By Clay Chandler Also in this week’s paper: >> KEMPER UPDATE PSC to examine formula rate plans for Entergy, Miss. Power— by Clay Chandler >>TECHNOLOGY Google shares the ‘how-to’s’ of getting your business online— by Ted Carter >>MDA New chief cites potential in energy, medical [...] [...]
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