Mississippi Business Journal » Silicor http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Tue, 21 May 2013 19:01:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 MBJ ANALYSIS: Businessman promising $1.1 billion steel plant in Arkansas has failed to deliver on big projects announced in Mississippi http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/31/mbj-analysis-businessman-promising-1-1-billion-steel-plant-in-arkansas-has-failed-to-deliver-on-big-projects-announced-in-mississippi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mbj-analysis-businessman-promising-1-1-billion-steel-plant-in-arkansas-has-failed-to-deliver-on-big-projects-announced-in-mississippi http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/31/mbj-analysis-businessman-promising-1-1-billion-steel-plant-in-arkansas-has-failed-to-deliver-on-big-projects-announced-in-mississippi/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:28:05 +0000 Becky Gillette http://msbusiness.com/?p=68903 John D. Correnti, the businessman Arkansas is counting on to deliver “the largest economic development project in the state’s history,” a proposed $1.1 billion steel mill in Mississippi County in northeast Arkansas, has recently failed to deliver on promises for big projects in Mississippi. Tuesday Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe announced that Correnti’s Big River Steel [...]

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