It’s just been crazy the amount of calls that we’ve received.” We’re having people from Memphis wanting to move their businesses here. “We’re having people call us from out of state wanting to move their businesses here. “The response to the development in its entirety, commercial and residential, has been overwhelming,” said Hill, the developer and owner. Backhoes and other heavy machinery were stationed on site ready to start work. “It’s the people that make the community,” he said.Īs festive as the groundbreaking was, the event was not merely ceremonial. Yes, the $200 million project will generate millions of dollars in investment for Southaven, Hosemann told the crowd.īut the bigger benefit is the people who will come to live, work and shop at Silo Square and send their children to DeSoto County schools, he said. The city and developer Brian Hill of Lifestyle Communities LLC organized an event befitting the expected impact: The DeSoto Central High marching band played a feast of chicken, fish, pork and vegetables with ice tea was served and Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann participated. More apt comparisons might be the 443-acre Schilling Farms in Collierville or even the still-planned, 160-acre Lake District in Lakeland. Musselwhite likened the 228-acre district - south of Goodman Road, west of Getwell and east of Tchulahoma - to Midtown Memphis’ Overton Square, where visitors park their car only once and walk to a variety of restaurants and entertainment spots. “This is going to be a game-changing development for our city,” Mayor Darren Musselwhite told about 75 people gathered under a tent near the old, concrete farm silo from which the development draws its name and branding for quaintness. Car-centric Southaven on Tuesday celebrated the groundbreaking of Silo Square, the suburb’s planned community that aspires to blend businesses and housing in a way that is easy, even pleasing, to walk around.
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