The 19,044-sf call center at 21120 Johnson Rd. wasn't available when ProVisions bought Oreck's 360,500-sf office/warehouse at 21180 Johnson Rd. last year, according to Craig Laher, managing director for the buy side. "We were re-approached," he says, adding the Cookeville, TN-based seller marketed the call center to a just select few before ProVisions' contract on the table.

ProVisions' leverage wasn't just the next-door property, but it is a well-known force in public and private joint ventures in the state, working extensively with Mississippi's economic development groups. "We have a lot of faith in Mississippi and its leadership in economic development," Laher says. "Mississippi's really not a secret any longer to businesses looking to expand in that part of the South."

[IMGCAP(2)]Laher tells GlobeSt.com that the repositioning plan is based on a three- to five-year hold. The call center, delivering this year on a four-acre tract, will be marketed to one user on a for sale or for lease basis while the retooled 360,500-sf structure, situated on 23.2 acres, will be broken into multi-tenant space. Laher says Triton Systems has leased part of the building, with enough deals in the pipeline to fill roughly 50% of the remaining space.