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Article: Area Development Partnership searching for replacement.(Focus: economic development)(economic development council)
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- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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HATTIESBURG -- The new director of the Area Development Partnership will have some mighty big shoes to fill.
Last month, Gov. Haley Barbour and Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) executive director Leland Speed tapped ADP president Gray Swoope to serve as deputy director and COO for the state's economic development department. He began his new role March 8.
"The new president will have giant shoes to fill," said ADP chair and search Committee leader Paige York-Losee. "However, we are confident we will find a leader to carry the ADP torch and continue to more this community forward."
Since February 1997, when ADP hired Swoope as president, ...