It’s always gratifying when something you believe about your community is confirmed by facts from respected outside sources. That’s how our economic development team at Entergy Mississippi felt about Brookings Institution’s 2016 “America’s Advanced Industries: New Trends” report.
We’re proud of the way Jackson’s local industry, educators and government are collaborating on …
Originally posted on The Examiner
Entergy Texas announced a $600,000 workforce development initiative Monday, March 13 at Edison Plaza in Beaumont with several important dignitaries in attendance including Entergy Texas CEO Sallie Rainer and Texas Workforce Commissioner Representing Employees Ruth Hughs.
Several entities are involved in the initiative, including Texas …
When relocating, or expanding your business, calling the utility company is probably not your first priority. Often that call is made in the final stages of site selection to check rates, or schedule service to be connected. However, there are a lot of not-so-obvious advantages to contacting us much earlier …
Originally posted on Arkansas Business
The Museum of Discovery said last week that its Girls in STEM program will serve more girls in 2017 and expand to Jonesboro and Pine Bluff thanks to grants from Wal-Mart, Best Buy and the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas.
Grants and private donations totaling more than …
Originally posted on The New Orleans Advocate
Regional business leaders are setting their sights in the year ahead on developing and growing local opportunities in advanced manufacturing, an industry that could employ skilled and well-paid workers.
That was the takeaway Monday from Greater New Orleans Inc.’s annual meeting at the Hyatt Regency …
If you’ve ever been responsible for initiating and constructing a new or expanding industrial facility, you probably experienced one or more of these issues in working with your utility: slow response time, generic service solutions, costly infrastructure build-out and impersonal customer service.
This is what happens when estimating and planning teams …
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 …
