Music Mountain Water Company will build a $9.3 million plastic bottle manufacturing facility in Shreveport — an investment that will create dozens of new jobs and help secure the company’s future, officials announced Monday.
Renovations to make way for the 200,000-square-foot injection molding facility already are underway at the company’s Stoner Avenue location. The facility will open Oct. 1 and employ 25 new workers at an average of $32,000 a year, according to a press release.
The $160 million needed to complete Interstate 49 North to Arkansas was secured Thursday with Gov. Bobby Jindal’s signature on a bill that bonds out funding to invest in the project’s construction.
Jindal was joined by state legislators, local officials and the family of the late Alvin B. Kessler, a longtime champion of the highway project whose name will be affiliated with portions of the interstate, at the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce Thursday to sign House Bill 370 into law. The bill, authored by state Rep. Jane Smith, gives the state bond commission authority to issue bonds secured by unclaimed property monies for the I-49 project. The Louisiana Transportation Authority previously had that power. Portions funded through the unclaimed property fund will be designated as the Alvin B. Kessler Memorial Highway.
