Any new Starkville construction projects going on?

[57stratdawg]

My understanding is this is all but dead.

 

[61dawg]

Not sure how many people on this board are interested in this, but a Chicken Salad Chick just opened on 12 next to Starbucks and the old CJ’s pizza building (which is still vacant, BTW). Yeah it’s another chain place but that’s better than another empty building.

Bet it lasts 6 months.

 

[Mjoelner]

Ask and you shall receive. From this link SterlingArcher posted earlier about Cornerstone Park, it looks like the railroad will be converted to a trail. On this master plan, it has the railroad listed as the 'future Greenbelt Trail'.

http://starkvilleparks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Starkville-Presentation_2018-11-06.pdf

 

[BossDawg78]

Finally... some high-density housing down S. Montgomery! **

More Sugar Shacks!!!1!

 

[Nama Carl]

What kind of property ownership? Figured that rail line would be owned by the railroad. What do they need with an extinct line?

Railroads are notoriously terrible to work with.

 

[Crucifictorious]

It sure looked closed. Drove by at lunchtime and not a soul there.

 

[Shmuley]

At some point it may become worth it to someone with standing to file quiet title actions in chancery court to force the rail property alleged owner to defend its claim to title to the property. A court order is about the best way out there to "fix" title issues.

 

[The Peeper]

If not it should be. I went not long ago and it was frozen fries and frozen onion rings. The burger was ok but just not like the Christy's of old

 

[dorndawg]

Railroads, esp Class 1's, are the worst. But my understanding is it literally takes an act of Congress to completely close a rail line.

 

[40 acres and a mule]

Misfit is correct

 

[Mjoelner]

The REAL Christy's has been gone since the burgers started lacking the grease to eat the bottom out of your paper sack on a to go order before you got home. That's been about 20 years ago. I sure got multiple lifetimes worth of 'vitamin G' from that place!

 

[aTotal360]

The day it moved into the new building it died.

 

[drail14me]

Don’t get your hopes up. The rails to trails project has been on the “plans” for over 15 years. When Cornerstone Park was first featured in a front page article taunting its rail service, there was a parks master plan a few pages it that showed the rail line turned into a trail. That’s good marketing. Wonder if it had anything to do with why Cornerstone is still empty.

 

[archdog]

Funny cause commodore bob's location and building is terrible for a restaurant cause Dan Camp hates giving room to such things as kitchens.