A new website highlighting Mississippi’s creative economy has launched and Fondren is one of four examples touted as part of the success story. MississippiCreativeEconomy.com calls Fondren “one of Jackson’s most vibrant, desirable and (as the neighbors would remind you) funky and artistic neighborhoods.” Other vignettes tell of Peavey Electronics, The Viking Range Corporation and the Mississippi Blues Trail. The site from the Mississippi Development Authority and Mississippi Arts Commission is “designed to educate you about the economic potential that Mississippi’s — and your community’s — creative economy holds.”

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