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Today, thousands o£ now people and millions of new dollars are beginning to pour into the area as the world "discovers", so to speak, the wonders of the Mis-
The new industries coming in are modern, capital intensive, technically oriented organizations which typically investigate with great thoroughness before sclccting new centers for their activities. They are bringing skilled, highly intelligent, well paid personnel with them to settle, live and work in and around Michoud, Eay St. Louis, Picayune, Pass Christian, Gulfport, Mississippi City, Edge-water, Biloxi, Pascagoula and other hither-to unknown towns which are no different in their make-up than were Huntsville, Cape Canaveral, or Lompoc, California (site of the huge 5, 000 mile Pacific down missile range) just •cen years a5o.
The area is already large enough and capable of more than sufficiently supporting the ccntcr in a profitable manner. This has been amply demonstrated to all concerned by the record opening night and following first months sales which set new records for many of the national tenants. But this is only the beginning, during the lifetime of this loan we will sec another of the growth areas of the United States "spring up", as it were, seemingly overnight to assume its place in the family of new communities which are checker-boarding themselves across the faco of this ever changing country of curs.
The retail shopping pattern areas in the vicinity of Gulfport and Eiloxi is
sissippi Gulf Coast, one of America's earliest civiKzed and latest appreciated
tural wonderlands.
cities. Even these cities have older congested downtown areas with a definite
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