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Article: Residential growth fuels commercial development in DeSoto. (Focus Real Estate).(DeSoto County, Mississippi)
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- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 26, 2003
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DeSoto County is the fastest-growing county in the state, and the seventh fastest-growing county in the nation. An average of eight families a day are moving to the county that anchors the northeastern part of the state south of Memphis.
The first wave of development in housing is being following by a commercial development boom.
"Our residential growth has been so fast -- we have grown 490% in the 10 years between the 1990 to 2000 census," said Vicki Dupree, executive director of the Olive Branch. Chamber of Commerce. "Residential comes first because you must have the residential before the commercial will move in. Now we have a large residential ...