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Investor group is taking it one project at a time

Lisa Monti — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:07:04 +0000

Twenty successful Biloxi businesswomen have pooled their money and talents to buy old buildings in downtown Biloxi and rehabilitate them for retail or residential spaces. Their goal: To give downtown a much deserved facelift and to spark more retail and tourism activity. In less than two years, the women investors who make up Rue Vieux, [...]

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Full Spectrum chooses Boomerang for robotic parking garage

MBJ Staff — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:47:46 +0000

JACKSON — Full Spectrum has chosen Boomerang Systems Inc., a designer and manufacturer of fully automated robotic parking and self-storage systems, to provide a 480-space automated parking garage as part of the initial phase of the Old Capitol Green redevelopment project located in Jackson. The cost of the project was not disclosed. Old Capitol Green [...]

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Read Feb. 27 Construction Insert

Stephen McDill — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:41:08 +0000

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City buying downtown properties for redevelopment

Associated Press — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:55:23 +0000

TUPELO — The city of Tupelo plans to buy three downtown properties in a $376,000 investment it hopes will result in a park or residential development. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports the properties have been magnets for crime and other problems. One originally was the Tupelo Military Institute but city officials say it more [...]

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Building permits down, but city expects to collect more fees

Associated Press — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:21:06 +0000

OLIVE BRANCH — Olive Branch may record fewer residential building permits this year than ever before, but the city still expects to collect more in permit fees because of big-box business development. The Commercial Appeal reports city officials collected $296,000 in building permit fees last year but expect to collect $375,000 this year, an increase [...]

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Old Capitol Green signs leases, calls on city to act

MBJ Staff — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:06:26 +0000

JACKSON — Carlton A. Brown, founding partner and COO of Full Spectrum South, yesterday announced the first retail business leases for the Old Capitol Green project in Jackson with 65 percent of the retail spaces committed as well as leases to fill 52 percent of the project’s first commercial office building. Full Spectrum of NY [...]

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