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MDA Executive Director Bill Cork: Speed, certainty define investment competition

Mississippi Development Authority Executive Director Bill Cork said speed, certainty and site readiness are defining the competition for investment.

The source said companies do not locate based on potential but on preparedness. It also said economic development has always been competitive and that the margin between winning and losing is measured in speed, certainty and affordability.

Source: Mississippi Development Authority.

Jon Myers

Jon Ross Myers founded Mississippi News Group in 2013. Before founding the organization, he worked at The Daily Mississippian, The Marion Salute and The Southern Sentinel. A Mississippi journalist and writer based in Ripley, he received second place in poetry in the 2025 William Faulkner Literary Competition for "The Garden."