Originally posted on Business Facilities
TINTON FALLS, NJ — January 4, 2017 — The Mississippi Development Authority has taken top honors in Business Facilities’ 2016 Economic Development Deal of the Year competition, winning our Gold Award for Continental Tire’s manufacturing plant in Clinton, MS.
The Continental Tire facility is a $1.45 billion …
Originally posted on Talk Business and Politics
Newport has a certified 100-acre industrial development park, but it’s not large enough to attract enough job providers to Jackson County.
To lure industries to the region, the commission hopes to get a 3,200-acre swath certified by the state in 2017, Newport Economic Development …
Originally Posted on Beaumont Enterprise
The city of Beaumont hopes to bet $85,000 on the roulette wheel of economic development and turn it into $51 billion.
The likelihood of the croupier pushing over that much in winnings is remote – unrealistic, perhaps – but the prospect of that much on the …
Originally Posted on Beaumont Enterprise
Entergy is planning to build new substations along Interstate 45, and the FM 1097 segment across Lake Conroe remains a proposed route option for transmission lines.
The director of Customer Service for the West Region of Entergy Texas presented an update on Montgomery County’s new $1 …
Originally Posted On The Times-Picayune
Entergy Louisiana has received approval to build a new $869 million power plant in St. Charles Parish, part of a broader effort to strengthen power generation and transmission in a region that has seen a boom in industrial growth. The plant is expected to start …
Originally Posted on The Clarion Ledger
GREENWOOD, MS – Pepsico is coming to Leflore County and bringing with it 60 new jobs.
The Greenwood Commonwealth reports the announcement of the construction of a new warehouse and distribution facility, which should be operations by mid2017, was made this week by Jennifer Ryan, …
Originally Posted on Arkansas Business
Mark Bula’s career was forged in the massive steel mills of Ohio and Illinois, the Great Lakes sector of the American steel industry. Today, as CCO of Big River Steel (BRS) located in the Arkansas Delta, Bula shares the essential reasons that brought BRS to …
Originally Posted on AreaDevelopment
Mayor Jamie Mayor said economic development in Monroe is possibly the best its ever been.
Mayo said he plans to streamline the process for businesses to get up and running. Now, the tax and revenue department is downtown, and planning and urban development is at the South …
