Apartment Look

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 ...