Years went by without a single contract from the Tennessee Valley Authority to bring new industry to Lowndes, Oktibbeha or Clay counties in Mississippi’s Golden Triangle. Mississippi Development Authority also wasn't pointing clients to the region for awhile, Golden Triangle (GT) Development LINK CEO Joe Max Higgins told the Columbus Rotary Club on Jan. 12. In the last few years, “if we weren't making (deals), it wasn't getting made," Higgins said. The region is beginning to see more interest from an array of industries - food and solar power to product distribution companies - even in the face of the ongoing pandemic, he continued. TVA has even renewed its interest. "That's our niche,” Higgins told Rotarians, “that's what we do: Big land, big power, big water, big sewer. We're your first stop." (Source: The Dispatch 01/13/21) Higgins: Renewed TVA interest in area beefing up industrial recruitment - The Dispatch (cdispatch.com)
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