ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Automotive Corridor
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Choctaw County, Mississippi, a link in the growing Southern Automotive Corridor? With nine automotive assembly plants within 250 miles, and our strategic location about 75 miles equidistance between the Nissan and Toyota plants in Mississippi, Choctaw County is a natural fit for automotive suppliers.
Reasons That Choctaw County, Mississippi is a strategic fit along the Automotive Corridor:
- Located almost exactly between the Nissan assembly plant and the Toyota assembly plant to be constructed in northeast Mississippi, about 75 miles from each
- The Center for Advanced Vehicular Studies (CAVS) less than 30 miles away at Mississippi State University
- CAVS Extension Center about 75 miles away at Canton near the Nissan plant
- The Center for Manufacturing Excellence to be constructed at the University of Mississippi about 75 miles away to provide Toyota and its suppliers with engineers, accountants, business managers and other professionals
- an available, skilled work force
- A strong emphasis on training with state-funded or state-supplemented initiatives
- Availability of land
- Infrastructure to distribute the product via highway and rail
- Growth and Prosperity County
- Predominance of right to work
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