MSU Campus & Starkville Picture Thread

[Xenomorph]

Looking back through some old photos makes me..

...want to go on a recon mission to update the portfolio.

 

[Wizard of bulldogery]

2013 or 2014 i believe.

 

[J-Dawg]

Dorman, McCool and Allen should be on the short lists for major reno's.

 

[BulldawgFan]

I'm hoping when they are done taking out the turn lane on hwy 12 they will at least repave it and maybe use some nice bright paint for the road lines. Not to get off on a tangent, but I wish they had put in a 3rd lane each direction instead of take out the turn lane. Even with the students out of town traffic can and will back up for over a 1/4 mile at a red light. I've been trying to turn out of Kroger but traffic is backed up through the intersection from the light at Stark Rd on more than once occasion. It was like that yesterday and students are even back yet in full numbers.

Driving down highway 12 is like driving through a third world country - especially at night. Bumpy as hell, poor lighting, and poor zoning laws (payday loans and ****** metal buildings) make it look terrible. Hopefully this construction will include re-paving highway 12. I think having the traffic lights mounted on poles instead of hanging from wires will definitely help keep Starkville's main road from continuing to be an embarrassment.

 

[vandaldawg]

The Russell Street Flats development is the only miss so far. Cheap finishing touches and will look like pooh in about 5-8 years.

Everything else looks great. The Russell condos look great, they are just out of my price range.

The flats are an abomination. As ugly as they are - and they are - the most damaging aspect is the fact they completely ignored what has made the Cottton District successful, and that is the mixed use component. Restaurant/retail/commercial on the ground level, and living on upper levels.

They just murdered an entire 3 block stretch of frontage on what is arguably the most important corridor in Starkville right now. Kudos. Classic Starkville.

 

[Mafiadawg]

What's going at the corner of university and Montgomery? And what did they tear down there?

 

[SallyStansbury]

Somone needs to get this **** fixed pronto

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This has been bothering me for months. Totally left off an archway in the brickwork?
Just sayin'

 

[Hugh's Burner Phone]

What's going at the corner of university and Montgomery? And what did they tear down there?

It was the homes in this picture. I heard what they were putting in but don't remember. Probably more condos or something like that. That and gas stations appear to be all they are building in town any more.


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[The Peeper]

Tore down 3 old houses from the early 1900's. Tuscaloosa investors building retail space downstairs and condos upstairs

 

[Xenomorph]

I hope they cut down those ugly ole trees. **

 

[pDigital32Dawg]

Driving down highway 12 is like driving through a third world country - especially at night. Bumpy as hell, poor lighting, and poor zoning laws (payday loans and ****** metal buildings) make it look terrible. Hopefully this construction will include re-paving highway 12. I think having the traffic lights mounted on poles instead of hanging from wires will definitely help keep Starkville's main road from continuing to be an embarrassment.

I am hoping they bury some of the power lines along Highway 12

 

[pDigital32Dawg]

I believe there were problems with the dam structurally, and as Hugh's Burner Phone mentioned, issues with leaking. Chadwick Lake has undergone similar work to put in new barriers along the edges of part of the lake.

 

[pDigital32Dawg]

You definitely should. The stadium was locked up, otherwise I would have taken some pics from inside. It is pretty amazing to see the differences across campus just within the past 5 to 10 years.

 

[bigiron.sixpack]

They gone.

 

[KurtRambis4]

I know this

won't be a popular opinion, but I'm just not a fan of the "Federal" style architecture prevalent with ALL of our buildings.

eVERYTHING looks exactly the same, and what's with the green roofs on Engineering Row?

 

[Allday.sixpack]

won't be a popular opinion, but I'm just not a fan of the "Federal" style architecture prevalent with ALL of our buildings.

eVERYTHING looks exactly the same, and what's with the green roofs on Engineering Row?

In 1995, I brought in the renouned golf course architect Bob Cupp to give a lecture to our golf course architecture class in the landscape architect department. I took him on a driving tour around the campus. During the tour, he turned and said to me "it looks like100 different architects jacked off on your campus."
I'll never occurred to me before then.

I'm glad we're seeing more uniformity.

 

[KurtRambis4]

I'm not saying

every building needs to be different, but at the same time, every building doesn't need to be the eXACT same.

Every building looks like some Federal building from 1950.

The point is, go with 2, hell let's get wild...3, different architectural styles.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

The first pic just had to be Dorman.

Dorman is awesome. It has to be number one. It cannot be number two.**

 

[saymyname]

I'm blown away by all the changes since I was in school. For selfish reasons, I wish a few things remained. Sometimes things are so different, it's hard to feel nostalgic. My daughter lives around the corner from the duplex on Russell Street where I lived in the late eighties. I'd love to be able to point and say "I lived RIGHT THERE thirty years ago!" but it's long gone now. I wonder if anyone found my missing "Rattle and Hum" cassette when they excavated for the condos. This picture was taken from a vantage point pretty much directly above the couch I usually slept on. I'm sure it's much more accommodating now. I still miss the old place. I guess that's nostalgic.
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