Mississippi

The Dunn Utility Products company will be repurposing the Enhance Mississippi Shell Building in New Albany and an adjeacent land parcel into two new manufacturing plants. Dunn Utility Products is a provider of precast concrete solutions for above-ground and underground concreate. With the increasing construction demand and urbanization of surrounding areas of Memphis, Birmingham, and Nashville, sponsoring this project will be able to meet the needs of future infrastructure and economic development plans for the surrounding areas.

The City of New Albany requested CDBG funding to assist with improvements to a publicly owned building and truck loading yard. The City of New Albany needed to rehabilitate an existing industrial building to allow the company, Southern Motion, Inc., to expand and create additional job opportunities for local area residents.

This project consists of a renovation of an publicly owned building for a long term lease to Parmida LED Technologies. This will be a new warehouse and distribution facility which will create 20 new jobs.

The City of Laurel was in desperate need of making water system improvements at water treatment plants 2 and 3, constructed in the 1970s. These two plants combined provide treatment for approximately 75% of the city’s water supply. The existing ground storage tanks at both plants needed to be rehabilitated. In addition to the ground storage tank problems, the aerators at both plants needed to be replaced.