by rmadmin | Aug 15, 2017 | News Releases
Posted by: Jack Weatherly in Economic Development, MBJ FEATURE, NEWS August 4, 2017 By JACK WEATHERLY Traffic goes with growth. Ridgeland’s population has more than doubled since 1990 – reaching nearly 25,000 –while the Madison County’s estimated 2016 population...
by rmadmin | Aug 15, 2017 | News Releases
Nell Luter Floyd, Clarion-Ledger correspondent Published 12:12 a.m. CT July 25, 2017 | Updated 11:52 a.m. CT July 25, 2017 Hobby Lobby and Academy Sports + Outdoors are the first retailers announced for Crawford Farms, a 38-acre development under way in Madison. “Both...
by rmadmin | Aug 14, 2017 | News Releases
Posted by: For the MBJ in Economic Development, NEWS August 11, 2017 Dr. Mimmo Parisi I t’s no surprise that the union vote at Nissan’s manufacturing facility in Canton generated national headlines. This coverage culminated last week when workers voted 2,244 to...
by rmadmin | Aug 9, 2017 | News Releases
MADISON COUNTY, MS (Mississippi News Now) – Nissan employees voted Friday to reject the United Auto Workers (UAW) effort to unionize the Canton plant by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. The NLRB conducted election tally was 2244 to 1307, opposing the UAW. “With...
by rmadmin | Aug 3, 2017 | News Releases
As Toyota and Mazda search for a site to build a joint-venture, $1.6 billion plant in the U.S., Mississippi is expected to be in the hunt, since it already makes Corollas at the Blue Springs Toyota plant. “We stand ready to grow our existing partnership and...
