Danial Boggs CEO of Greater Greenville Housing and Revitalization Association, without releasing any new information, apologized for canceling the Greenville Parade, due to unforeseen circumstances he said, we’ll do better next year.
He then announced The Delta Democrat-Times’ new offices are just about complete.
It should be ready to move into next week.
“Counting the DD-T, that makes five new businesses downtown this year,” Boggs said, the grants are secured for the BCI and RBCI for 2024.
“We’ll be getting those new Sky Cops for the police by early spring,” Boggs said.
Justin Burch, CEO of Washington County Economic Alliance, started with his end-of-year report as the power went out in City Hall.
While the problem was being resolved, Ward 3 Councilman Vernon Greenlee remarked on Justin Burch’s shirt from The University of Mississippi, Greenlee a Mississippi State alum asked Burch where they got that color of blue from, for the shirt. Burch said he didn’t know and asked the crowd in the Council Chambers, “What do you call a genius at Mississippi State before anyone could respond Burch said, “A visitor.” The crowd roared with laughter and the lights came back on.
Burch went back into professional mode and told the Council that eighteen grant recipients had Graduated from the CAP Center.
“The Business incubator would be adding 3-D printers so the prototypes could be modeled in-house, and broadband should be getting underway by February,” Burch said.
Councilwoman Lurann Thomas-Kingdom asked Burch to tell the Council how much money for broadband Greenville was going to receive.
”The state of Mississippi is receiving $20-25 million for the projects and He and his team were going to make sure that Greenville Hollandale, Leland, and all of Washington County gets its share of the project money,” Burch said.
