Mississippi Business Journal » Ridgeland Mississippi http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:02:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Assessing Metropolitan’s market timing: Experienced risk takers pulled it off http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/assessing-metropolitan%e2%80%99s-market-timing-experienced-risk-takers-pulled-it-off/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=assessing-metropolitan%25e2%2580%2599s-market-timing-experienced-risk-takers-pulled-it-off http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/assessing-metropolitan%e2%80%99s-market-timing-experienced-risk-takers-pulled-it-off/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:44:19 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=53863 It’s not like founder Curt Gabardi and his Metropolitan Bank partners decided to sell popsicles in an ice storm. But starting a bank as the nation’s financial sector verged on falling off a cliff? “Whether intentional or by chance, in a warped kind of way they probably picked the best time in the world to [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/assessing-metropolitan%e2%80%99s-market-timing-experienced-risk-takers-pulled-it-off/feed/ 0 Economic crisis gave Metropolitan Bank the opportunities it needed http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/economic-crisis-gave-metropolitan-bank-the-opportunities-it-needed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=economic-crisis-gave-metropolitan-bank-the-opportunities-it-needed http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/economic-crisis-gave-metropolitan-bank-the-opportunities-it-needed/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:25:25 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=53858 >> Gabardi’s idea was to cultivate a niche space in which Metropolitan’s bankers would compete against other bankers — not other banks As the sky seemed to be falling on the nation’s banking sector in 2008, veteran banker Curt Gabardi and his “Band of Bankers” executive corps decided there may never be a better time [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/economic-crisis-gave-metropolitan-bank-the-opportunities-it-needed/feed/ 0 Cities realize hike-bike trails good for local economy http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/04/cities-realize-hike-bike-trails-good-for-local-economy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cities-realize-hike-bike-trails-good-for-local-economy http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/04/cities-realize-hike-bike-trails-good-for-local-economy/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:00:20 +0000 Amy McCullough http://msbusiness.com/?p=49298 Cities are realizing that hike and bike trails are not only important for citizens’ quality of life but are also a powerful economic development tools. Recently, the cities of Jackson, Ridgeland and Flowood received a collective total of $3.1 million for pedestrian trail enhancements awarded through the Mississippi Department of Transportation. Jackson received $1.1 million [...]

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