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The top tier of economic development projects in Mississippi the past decade or so shares a similarity: most of them are advanced manufacturing businesses.
The arrival of Nissan touched off a series of suppliers in Central Mississippi, as did Severstal in East Mississippi. Officials hope the Toyota plant in Blue Springs will produce the same ripple effect in Northeast Mississippi, region that received recently hard-to-find good news last week with the announcement that Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) will expand its plant and more than quadruple its workforce over the next eight years.
