KELLY DANIELS
The University Inn on Spring Street will remain closed after city officials denied a developer’s request Tuesday to renovate the rundown building into a condo-hotel.
It took three months, two unanimous approvals from the Planning and Zoning Commission and staunch opposition from developers of the three-year stalled CottonMill Marketplace for the Starkville Board of Aldermen to deny Larry Tabor, owner of Tabor Properties LLC, a local company, the request to allow a multi-family residential use of the Inn, which sits in a business district and was first built as a Ramada Inn in the 1970s.
Asking the board for denial was CottonMill planners Nicholas Properties of Ridgeland and PDK Capital Investors of Atlanta, Ga. They argued that Tabor’s development would devalue the surrounding neighborhood, bringing with them a petition of 31 neighbor signatures, 10 of which lived within 300 feet, and some of which, Ward 3 Alderman Eric Parker later pointed out, were found also in letters of support for Tabor’s request.
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