Bill Cork addresses the top economic development priorities for the State of Mississippi.
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Executive Director Bill Cork sheds light on state economic development strategy.
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Snapshot
Last week Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport celebrated the graduation of the first cohort from its Welding Apprenticeship program by holding a ceremony and pledging to bring them on as the first full-time welding crew hired directly by the airport.
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Insight Park at the University of Mississippi is a business incubator for innovative startups at Ole Miss in Oxford.
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How AIM UP, Talent Solutions and Career Coaches add up to a pathway to workforce success.
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Liebherr’s Tupelo campus could bring over $200 million and up to 300 jobs to a logistics site handling everything from cranes (the 440 HC-L model is shown) to earthmoving machinery.
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From Liebherr in Tupelo to Avid Boats in Aberdeen, companies like what they find in the Magnolia State.
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Gov. Tate Reeves greets a member of the state’s ample manufacturing workforce during a recent plant tour.
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A groundbreaking branding initiative is
turning heads.
Gov. Tate Reeves spoke recently
at SelectUSA.
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Five years into his tenure, Gov. Tate Reeves has turned Mississippi into an economic juggernaut.
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State Capitol in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Changes to tax laws and regulations improve the Mississippi business environment.
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Area Spotlights
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey signs House Bill 2002 and House Bill 2014 into law in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, setting up a new microgrid system and one-stop-shop permitting for data centers.
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Big-budget data center developers are keeping a watchful eye on West Virginia.
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Investment Profile
Half a million college graduates over the past four years chose to locate in New York City, where a college student population of 530,000 still matriculates and an equally young business roster continues to grow — one in eight firms in the city started in the past 12 months.
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Investment Profile
CF Industries’ Blue Point Complex in RiverPlex MegaPark in Ascension Parish will expand thanks to a $4 billion investment by the Illinois-based chemical manufacturer. The new plant will be the largest low-carbon ammonia production facility in the world.
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What began a dozen years ago as a dream to transform a large tract of farmland in south Louisiana into a modern industrial park has emerged this year as a major economic development force in the South.
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Project Bulletin
To date, Biogen has invested about $10 billion in its North Carolina operations. Getty Images
Biogen prepares future pipeline in North Carolina; Data center developer brings billion-dollar investment to Nevada; Collins Aerospace expands in Texas.
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Area Spotlights
Emirates Global Aluminium will invest $4 billion in a manufacturing operation at Tulsa Port of Inola, where Sofidel (pictured) located in 2000.
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Aluminum, ammunition and a Dollar Tree distribution center were all drivers of 3,000 new jobs generated over three weeks in the Sooner State.
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Students at Michigan Tech are researching and creating a robot to harvest the Lucky Clover Farm’s lavender plants
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University partnerships create strong homegrown talent in Michigan.
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Michigan’s food and agriculture system employs about 17% of the state’s workforce
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Michigan’s agricultural diversity and food processor opportunities are strong and getting stronger each year.
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Area Spotlights
Venture Global’s CP2 LNG project in Cameron Parish is expected to deliver LNG to the world starting in 2027.
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Billions in foreign investment are coming to Louisiana’s energy sector.
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International Update
The 7 Steel Nordic site in Sweden.
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Green steel production is thriving in Scandinavia.
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Establishing a new factory in the U.S. offers tremendous opportunity, writes David Verner, “but only for those who understand the game being played.”
The topic of establishing new manufacturing operations in the United States is as broad as it is important.
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Sheep graze at a Silicon Ranch solar farm in Snipesville, Georgia.
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Running a state’s economic development office — or the state itself — affords those officeholders valuable opportunities to hear what’s on the minds of company executives looking to invest capital in new facilities.
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Features
Marshall University this year cemented an industry partnership agreement with Intuit.
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Through partnerships, higher education institutions can be the engine for research,
innovation and workforce development.
Intelligence Reports
A growing group of small and midsized cities and counties and their allies across the state exists to do exactly what its name suggests: Make connections between mom-and-pop operations and the economic development resources that are just as available to the little guy as they are to the corporate giants.
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Project Bulletin
Over the next decade, Project Blue's initial data center will bring in $250 million in new tax revenue to Arizona alone. Getty Images
Project Blue receives approval in Arizona; SAEL boosts domestic solar cell production in India; Dormant natural gas plant gains new life in Pennsylvania.
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Features
Columbus, Georgia
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The draw of small town living is becoming more attractive for big city dwellers
looking for a lower cost of living and financial security.
Online Insider
Zindi has proved to be a runaway success in solving the talent problem for AI in Africa, says a fellow AI company founder.
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Founded in 2018 in South Africa by CEO Celina Lee, CTO Megan Yates and Ekow Duker, Zindi is a completely online data science platform and networking community that supports AI and data-driven competitions for over 85,000 student and professional data scientists.
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