The rescuers of once-distressed Cadence Bank have moved the regional banking company’s headquarters from Starkville to Birmingham, Ala., but are living up to pledges to make Starkville a hub for the operations end of an expanded community banking business, economic development leaders say.
The new $4.1 billion Cadence Bank, N.A., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cadence Bancorp, [...] [...]
Starkville native Paul S. Zimmerman is a new fundraiser for Mississippi State University’s James Worth Bagley College of Engineering. The Oktibbeha County resident began his official duties in the college in November as an assistant director of development.
He is a 2000 MSU business administration graduate who previously worked in sales for 13 years at Flexsteel [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: December 18,2011
Tags: agriculture, Bryant-College Station, chickens, commodities, Coyt West, farming, Hazlehurst, Laurel, McComb, Mississippi Poultry Association, Mississippi State University, MSU, poultry, Sanderson Farms, soybeans, STARKVILLE, Texas
Fifty-one years after graduating from Mississippi State University, Coyt “Bud” West returned to his alma mater to be honored by the industry he served. On Nov. 17, West’s colleagues, friends, family, and MSU faculty and administration gathered at the university’s poultry science building to honor West as he was inducted into the Mississippi Poultry Association’s [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: December 18,2011
Tags: agriculture, aquaculture, catfish, Jimmy Avery, Mississippi State Extension Service, Mississippi State University, MSU, STARKVILLE, Stoneville, Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Vietnam catfish
Mississippi State University has recognized Extension professor Jimmy Avery with a Spirit of Excellence Award.
As Mississippi’s only Extension catfish specialist, Avery has spent the last several years working to revitalize an industry in which Mississippi excels. That leading position has been hit hard recently due to foreign imports and falling prices. He coordinated efforts of [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 21,2011
Tags: Burger King, Clay Chandler, Columbus, CottonMill Marketplace, E.E. Cooley Building, Haley Barbour, January, John Arthur Eaves, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, STARKVILLE
The $70-million CottonMill Marketplace mixed-use development in Starkville looks like it could begin in January, according to a story in the Columbus Commercial Dispatch this morning.
The two phases of the project will total about $120 million, according to Mississippi Business Journal reporter Clay Chandler. The first phase will include the renovation of the [...] [...]
The newest and youngest member of the Mississippi Transportation Commission, Northern District Commissioner Mike Tagert of Starkville has been on a unique learning curve since he joined commission after winning a special election in early February.
“There are a lot of projects on the table, and I inherited a budget in mid process,” said Tagert. “I [...] [...]
Relief and optimism have replaced last summer’s struggle for survival for Starkville’s Cadence National Bank.
The new lease on life for the multi-state regional bank came courtesy of a nearly $150 million capital infusion from Community Bancorp, a Houston, Texas, banking investment group that swooped in last October to take over Cadence after the bank had [...] [...]
Richard G. Hilton, FACHE, associate administrator/CFO of OCH Regional Medical Center in Starkville, was appointed chairman of the 2011-2012 Mississippi Hospital Association board of governors during MHA’s 80th Annual Leadership Conference in Point Clear, Ala. Hilton has served in his current position since 1983.
He holds a B.S. in business administration from Harding University in Searcy, [...] [...]
This is not your daddy’s sleepy, little college town.
For the past two decades, merchants in downtown Starkville have quietly transformed a city that was considered to be a poor third behind other Mississippi college towns such as Oxford and Hattiesburg.
No more.
Award-winning restaurants, boutique retail and other specialty shops and attractions are the rule rather than [...] [...]
MBJ-TV visits with Mississippi Main Street director Bob Wilson for a look back at 2010 and as well as what’s next for the non-profit economic development agency.
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