Forty miles upriver from Memphis, nearly 2,000 construction workers from far away as Utah and Texas are completing the final stages of a $1.3 billion steel mill that has turned the once faded Arkansas Delta city of Osceola into a boom town.
Home rental rates are rising and sales tax collections …
Mississippi receives a Silver Shovel Award for its sixth consecutive year from Area Development magazine. The award is based on economic development effectiveness. Area Development is a leading economic development publication covering site selection and facility planning. The Shovel Awards are presented to state economic development agencies demonstrating significant economic …
Originally posted on The Daily Leader
Entergy Mississippi recently announced the completion of its Brookhaven solar station, which will be used to harness the sun’s energy to help fuel Mississippi’s power grid.
Entergy received permission from the Mississippi Public Service Commission to install three 500,000-watt solar panel farms in the state …
Originally Posted on Arkansas News
LITTLE ROCK — Steel production has begun at Big River Steel’s $1.3 billion plant in Mississippi County, the company said Friday.
Big River Steel said in a news release that two units at its “Flex Mill” near Osceola began operating this week as part of a …
Originally Posted on Mississippi Business Journal
A scaled-back version of workforce training legislation Gov. Phil Bryant last year dubbed “The Two Cars and a Boat” bill won final legislative approval Tuesday.
House passage of Senate Bill 2808 put the measure on track for a signature from a governor who last year …
BATON ROUGE – Entergy Louisiana, LLC has entered into an agreement to supply power to the proposed Lake Charles LNG project in southwest Louisiana.
Under the contract, Entergy Louisiana could supply up to 255 megawatts of power to the LNG project that is being developed by BG Group with Energy Transfer …
Originally Posted on KPLC
WESTLAKE, LA – In March, Sasol broke ground on the $8.1 billion ethane cracker complex and began Phase 1 of the project. (Read more about it HERE.)
Seven months later, the site has a new foundation and a few structures to make way for the actual ethane cracker.
“The progress …
Originally Posted on DeSoto Times-Tribune
Marco Illig, Executive Vice President of Operations for FEUER Powertrain North America, Inc., in Robinsonville, calls DeSoto County home, making the short commute to the continental headquarters for his global company that cranks out more than three million crank shafts a year in his native Germany …
