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By PAUL SIMS
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Work continues to bring the proposed CottonMill Marketplace project to fruition, an official said Thursday.
The proposed $176 million retail, residential and convention center project is planned for 25 acres on the west side of Highway 12 between Russell and Spring streets directly across from Mississippi State University.
“Currently, all progress on the development is taking place on conference calls and in offices in Starkville, Jackson, Biloxi and Atlanta,” said Wendy Barthe Peavy, marketing and public policy director for Comvest Properties, in an e-mail Thursday.
The E.E. Cooley Building is a former cotton mill which the Institutions of Higher Learning owns. It’s the project’s lead focal point. MSU’s Physical Plant operations are housed in the facility.
Developers plan to convert the Cooley Building into a facility with 80,000 square feet of conference space and 30,000 square feet of office space. The overall project would cover about 750,000 square feet. “CMM representatives continue discussions with university officials,” she said.
Further, Peavy said that in early October, CottonMill was one of the projects Comvest officials featured at the International Council of Shopping Center’s Southeast Conference in Atlanta.
“The leasing team used this opportunity to bring retailers who have been following the project up to speed on its progress as well as introducing it to new retail prospects,” Peavy said. “The residential portion of the project has under gone re-design as the developers seek the best fit for the site. The overall project site plans continue to evolve as they have throughout the process,” she said.
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
 Above, from left, Lewis Mallory, chairman of Cadence Bank is pictured with local DAR members Ellen Mauldin, registrar for the Hic A Sha Ba Ha chapter, Historian Joy Greene, Regent Helen Polk, Betsy Longest, secreteary, and Tommy Tomlinson, President of Cadence Bank, and Starkville Mayor Parker Wiseman. Below, a closeup shot of the new historical marker. By EMILY JONES
For the Daily News
An historic marker commemorating the establishment of Starkville in 1833 has been erected in downtown Starkville by the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).
The sign, located on the Cadence Bank Plaza near the corner of Main and Jackson Streets, occupies what was once the geographical center of the fledging community known in those early days as Boardtown.
One of the first settlements in the area, Boardtown was renamed Starkville in 1837 in honor of Revolutionary War General John Stark, said Joy Greene, historian of the Hic-A-Sha-Ba-Ha Chapter of the DAR, which researched and funded the project.
“Starkville’s original historic marker on Highway 82 was destroyed some time ago,” she added.
“We appealed to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History to authorize and have the new verbage authenticated and authorized. She said the original community of Boardtown extended along Main Street from the First Presbyterian Church to the First United Methodist Church, and the site for the new sign is somewhat central to the early settlement.
Greene served as chairman of the project for the local DAR chapter. She chaired a similar project last year to have an historic marker placed at the entrance of the First United Methodist Church.
The local DAR Chapter was named Hic-A-Sha-Ba-Ha,, meaning “sweet gums on the water” in the language of the Choctaw Indians who first occupied the area. It is affiliated with the national organization which over the years has given more than nine million flags to youth organizations, parks and cemeteries.
It also provides flags for the floor of the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 20 November 2009 )
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