Business View Magazine - November 2016

Business View Magazine - November 2016 143 1,100 miles of roads and 2,200 miles of pipe going back and forth.” The City must figure out how to work closely with local businesses to be able to afford and manage those projects. “The businesses – engineers, construction companies, laborers, those companies that provide commodities – are going to be crucial to the pricing and the ability of Jackson to be able to pull this off over the next fifteen to twenty years,” Davis maintains. Sometimes known as the “Best of the New South,” Jackson has been recognized in recent years by many regional and national media outlets, publications, and organizations for its economic agenda. For example, CNNMoney.com says it’s the “Eleventh Best City in America to Launch a Small Business;” the Brookings Institute’s Metro Monitor Report calls Jackson “One of the 20 Strongest Performing Metros in America;” The United States Conference of Mayors’ Report “U.S. Met- ro Economies: Outlook – Gross Metropolitan Product, and Critical Role of Transportation Infrastructure” lists the city as “One of the Top 100 Metro Economies in America.” Business Development Manager, Davis sums up by simply stating that “Jackson is a vibrant city with great opportunities for economic development, great oppor- tunities for working, and great opportunities for living.” PREFERRED VENDOR GEO Specialty Chemicals, Inc. – Founded in 1993, GEO Specialty Chemicals is a world leader in providing high-quality, cost-effective specialty chemicals. The company manufactures over 300 products for over 1,000 customers. Its four divisions are: Paints & Coat- ings; Water Treatment & Glycine Products; Specialty & Construction; and Custom Solutions. Its markets include: water treatment; coating and resin additives; specialty acrylic monomers; consumer additives; plus a broad range of dispersants, surfactants, and other additives for the concrete admixtures, synthetic rub- ber polymerization, gypsum processing and oil well drilling markets. The company’s corporate office is in Ambler, Pennsylvania, with manufacturing plants lo- cated throughout the mid-Atlantic and southeastern United States. - www.geosc.com