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 …
“We went through a rigorous site selection process and are very pleased to have selected Hinds County to build our technically advanced bottled water facility. Hinds County and the Jackson area met our criteria for investment, including a supportive labor market and excellent access to our customers in the …
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 …
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 4-traders
Entergy hosted a “Power Lunch” last week at Copiah-Lincoln’s Simpson County Center. The purpose was to bring business leaders in the community together to discuss ways the community can work with Entergy in the economic development arena as well as in developments within the Entergy company itself.
Entergy is working with communities …
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 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 …
When it comes to economic development and technology, it’s all about information—what a company requires and what properties in our inventory meet those needs.
It’s extremely important for companies to tell us everything about what kind of site or facility they are looking for. The more we know about a company’s …
