Medc Honors State's Long-Serving Economic Developers, Projects
Mississippi Business Journal, The › August 20, 2009
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CEDA winners * The Village of Mantee, population 169, for the municipality's beautification and strategic planning efforts. * The City of Oxford for its private/public collaboration on The Powerhouse Community Arts Center, which hosts the Oxford Film Festival and other artistic and theatrical events. * Leake County for its Career-For-A-Day Program, established to encourage students to continue their education and return to their home county to live and work. * Lauderdale County for Lights on Afterschool, a community program highlighting the importance of after-school programs and encouraging creative development. * The Pontotoc-Union-Lee (PUL) Alliance for helping land the new Toyota automotive assembly plant. The nation's largest privately held wireless provider, with more than 850 employees, spent $140 million last year building 231 new cell sites, rolling out high-speed wireless broadband, upgrading back-up power generator systems, building a permanent microwave ring for redundancy in the Mississippi Gulf Coast region, constructing a high-tech operations center in downtown Jackson and beginning construction of a new corporate headquarters in Ridgeland.
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Medc Honors State's Long-Serving Economic Developers, Projects
Being recognized by his peers as a new honorary lifetime member of the Mississippi Economic Development Council (MEDC) humbled Charleigh Ford.
"I've been a member of MEDC for a long time, which I think is the cream of the crop in economic development organizations," says Ford, who helped establish the Columbus-Lowndes Development Link and the East Central Mi...See the full content of this document
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