TIM PRATT
Touting messages of progress and economic development, some of the state’s most influential people gathered Monday at East Mississippi Community College-Golden Triangle to mark what Joe Higgins called “the end of the beginning” of the Golden Triangle Regional Global Industrial Aerospace Park project.
Higgins, CEO of the Columbus-Lowndes Development Link, said the planned megasite could feature up to 8 million square feet in industrial space, create thousands of jobs and bring prosperity to workers in the Golden Triangle. The message sat well with the roughly 200 people in attendance, some of whom traveled from as far as Alabama and Jackson to see the presentation.
“It creates an awful lot of opportunity to change the face of Northeast Mississippi,” Greater Starkville Development Partnership President and CEO Jon Maynard said of the aerospace park. “It’s going to create the type of infrastructure that we need to see, utilizing the educational centers at Mississippi State University, (Mississippi University for Women) and EMCC, to really bring the type of work force that we’d like to have in our area.”
Starkville Mayor Parker Wiseman shared a similar sentiment.
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