Bryant Touts Delta as Auto Epicenter
A different kind of Detroit comparison was made in the Mississippi Delta this week.
It’s a comparison to Detroit’s golden age as the center of the U.S auto industry instead of its later decline and recent fiscal insolvency.
“What we’re trying to do is develop a Southern automobile corridor that passes through Mississippi,” Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said Tuesday, Sept. 24, as he and executives of Feuer Powertrain announced the German company would build a $140 million crankshaft factory in Tunica County.
Bryant made the announcement on a rainy day inside the Tunica Riverpark building the day after he was in West Point, Miss., to announce Yokohama Tire Corp. will build a $300 million manufacturing plant there to make commercial truck tires.
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9/26/13
Magnolia Tribune
