Agencies coming together to breathe life into Mississippi Hardware

The city of Vicksburg is seeking more than $500,000 in federal grant funds to upgrade and improve the city-owned parking area at the old Mississippi Hardware building at the corner of Washington and Depot streets as part of a plan to transform the building into high tech center.

The Board of Mayor and Aldermen Wednesday approved applying for $547,867 in State Economic Development Assistant Program grant funds through the Delta Regional Authority to pay for the project as part of a plan to renovate the former hardware building into an innovation and tech transfer center to serve the Vicksburg area and the entire central Mississippi region.

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