by - December 3, 2024 12:49 pm
The Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce is in the midst of its second, five-year strategic growth plan and earlier this year received a $700,000 grant to develop entrepreneurial programs in…
by - August 26, 2024 11:44 am
Jonesboro Unlimited has been awarded a $700,000 grant to support small business development and expansion by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA). The grant will support the…
by - February 27, 2023 6:39 pm
Despite a global pandemic, record inflation, rising interest rates and supply chain disruptions, Jonesboro Unlimited, the city’s economic development organization, reported Monday (Feb. 27) that during the last year the…
by - August 3, 2021 4:28 pm
Jonesboro Unlimited, the city’s economic development organization, launched a multi-million dollar job creation effort five years ago known as Momentum Jonesboro. Its goal was to create 2,500 jobs in five…
by - March 1, 2021 3:07 pm
More than five years ago, business and civic leaders in Jonesboro realized the city and surrounding areas had a significant economic development problem. Jobs were relatively plentiful, proved by the…
by - February 12, 2020 7:22 pm
Jonesboro Unlimited set a target goal more than three years ago to add at least 2,500 good paying jobs in the Jonesboro area. The private-partnership, economic development organization decided to…
by - August 15, 2019 3:50 pm
Mike Philpot has been selected as the new vice president of economic development for Jonesboro Unlimited. Philpot comes to the business development organization from Leland, Miss., where he served as…
by - February 7, 2019 8:14 pm
Two years ago, Jonesboro Unlimited started a five year plan to directly bring 2,500 new jobs to Northeast Arkansas’ hub city, and another 2,600 indirect or induced jobs. Dubbed “Momentum…
by - October 18, 2018 4:32 pm
Efforts to attract higher paying jobs to the Northeast Arkansas metro, and to better educate the workforce, are starting to bear fruit. The 2017 median income for the Jonesboro metro…
by - January 10, 2018 5:05 pm
Unemployment rates in Jonesboro and the surrounding region are near historic lows, but median income rates and labor participation rates are lower than the state and national averages. Jonesboro Unlimited…
by - October 1, 2017 7:19 pm
Former Director of the Missouri Department of Economic Development Mike Downing has been named Jonesboro Unlimited’s Vice President for Economic Development. The group has also selected former KAIT lead anchor…
by - May 7, 2017 9:00 pm
A private partnership development organization’s goal to raise $3.7 million to help invigorate the economy in Northeast Arkansas is closer to becoming a reality. Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce CEO…
by - January 22, 2017 7:32 pm
Jonesboro Unlimited, a private partnership development organization, hopes to raise $3.7 million in private capital to be used to lure high paying jobs to Northeast Arkansas. The fund raising drive…
