- <h2>MDA Asset Mapping Team visits growing Woodville</h2>
MDA Asset Mapping Team visits growing Woodville
The Mississippi Development Authority's Asset Mapping Resource Team recently visited Woodville at the request of the Woodville/Wilkinson County Main Street Association, Inc.
Team Leader Jack Moody, of MDA's Asset Development office, brought his resource team to Woodville and Wilkinson County for the purpose of photographing, recording, and marking as many businesses and historical sites as possible with geo-positioning coordinates. This record will become a part of a centralized state resource library of information for potential businesses who may want to locate here, in addition to becoming a part of larger tourism plans for additional trails, for example, such as the Blues Trail, a heritage trail which goes throughout Mississippi and beyond.
More importantly, the results of this Asset Mapping Team's findings will be valuable to local business owners and entrepreneurs, and a full report will be presented at a later date to all elected officials and the public at large as a way of giving feedback and summarizing the team members' reports.
Local drivers recruited to drive the Team Members around included Landon Anderson who drove team members to Woodville perimeter businesses and attractions, and Tom Rosenblatt who drove a team to sites in the western portion of the county. The Downtown Woodville team, on foot, was led by Main Street Manager Polly Rosenblatt. Historic sites, restaurants, buildings, businesses, and the courthouse were among those downtown places documented, in addition to Lake Mary, Pond Store, Clark Creek Natural Area, the Extension Office and Health Department, and the new Woodville Hospitality Center.
The Asset Mapping Team's visit, originally scheduled for later in the year, was moved due to weather conditions in North Mississippi. The team moved Woodville to the top of its list and swapped places with Water Valley, for which snow and ice was predicted the night before and safe travel may have been impossible. The sunshine in Woodville proved to be a welcome relief from the snow predicted for their previously scheduled destination in north Mississippi.
By Polly Rosenblatt, Director
Woodville/Wilkinson County Main Street
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