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Gov. Haley Barbour’s vision of reshaping Mississippi into a New Urbanist paradise had met with stiff opposition from local municipalities. He was also feeling pressure to get something done fast from the business community, especially the gaming industry on which Mississippi is banking its future prosperity. Casinos preparing to reopen that summer worried they wouldn’t be able to find enough employees if Mississippi’s housing crisis wasn’t addressed soon. “If you had told me a year ago that I’d be doing anything in Mississippi, XXXX XXXXX,” says Ben Koshkin in an interview with BUILDER in late January. Koshkin is a Sugar Land, Texas–based land development consultant who is enlisting builders on behalf of Horizon’s developers.
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