The deal boosts Neel-Schaffer's total employment to about250 people working in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana. Parkway purchase Parkway Properties has purchased two more office buildings, in Georgia and North Carolina. It was the company's first North Carolina purchase. Parkway Properties is a real estate investment trustspecializing in owning and managing office properties in the Southeast. The 10-inch steel pipelinewill supply additional natural gas to the north Tupelo area, including the Turner Industrial Park, Saltillo and Guntown.
Officials credit the achievement to intensive safety training.
The Starkville plant produces more than 90 million pounds of insulated wire and cable products each year. The SouthwireEducation Initiative will provide additional education resources to students, teachers and administrators. State slips Mississippi slipped to 23rd in the race to land new and expanded corporate facilities in 1996, according to Site Selection magazine. Themagazine also listed Mississippi 21st in the nation in new manufacturing plants or expansions with 64. The proposed one-story clinic will house several health care components, including an urgent care clinic, occupational medicine clinic, afamily medical clinic dedicated to primary care and a subspecialty clinic staffed by medical specialists and the IMA Foundation of Tupelo.