Downtown apartment project still in limbo

MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) - An announcement was made five years ago about a big housing project for downtown Meridian. According to the mayor and other business leaders, that project and others are getting closer to becoming a reality.

Oxford-based Chartre Companies first announced plans to convert the old BellSouth building on 23rd Avenue into Cumberland Terrace Apartments in 2012.

Just last year the city's community development director, Bunky Partridge, shared with Newscenter 11 the company's plan to put a coffee shop, gym and apartment balconies for the complex.

A year later, the building still looks the same from the outside. But Mayor Percy Bland says he expects that to change.

"They are telling us that they are ready to move forward. We're just waiting on them," said Bland.

In a statement to Newscenter 11, the administrative director for Mississippi State University's Meridian campus says that the additional housing downtown could help the branch's program for physician assistants, in particular, to attract from a broader geographic area.

"Mississippi State needs it. A lot of the young millennials need it, and this city needs it. So, we need some activity and some housing and that site is going to provide for that."

With just one apartment available to rent at this time, the manager of Downtown Properties' 32 apartments agrees.

"Every day. I just missed a text just then," said Sonya Ross, manager of Downtown Properties. "We have a waiting list. I wish I could just buy more and do it on the other side of the street."

Another downtown project that is set to take place is right back here at the Hulett Building. Currently, it has a climate controlled storage area. It also has an antique shop and custom made furniture will be done there. However, in the next year or two the owner says the plan is to also include some apartments, condos, town houses and hotel rooms inside there as well.

As for the project to transform Meridian's tallest building into a luxury hotel, Mayor Bland says the removal of asbestos at the Threefoot Building is expected to start within the next few weeks.

The biggest project that's currently underway in downtown is the $44 million Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Experience. It's scheduled to open in April 2018.

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