Posts Tagged ‘property’

Mall redevelopment will mean massive demolition

GAUTIER — The redeveloped Singing River Mall will be an open-air shopping center that requires demolition of about 250,000 square feet of existing space. That’s according to an agreement on the city council’s agenda last week. The Mississippi Press reports the proposed agreement points to a 350,000-square-foot high-quality mixed-use development with anchor, junior anchor and [...] [...]

Index: Property values continued their rebound into 2013

OXFORD – The latest FNC Residential Price Index (RPI) indicates that U.S. property values continued to recover through January — the 11th consecutive month of rising prices. Despite the uneven pace of price gains across different geographical markets, there are clear signs that the housing recovery is increasingly widespread, according to the Oxford-based mortgage technology [...] [...]

Judge rules proposed hospital site within city limits

by Associated Press Published: March 14,2013

Tags: annex, bench, Commercial Real Estate, construction, court, health, health care, hospital, judge, land, law, legal, medical, medicine, property

OXFORD — A Lafayette County judge has ruled that the land that a company has selected as the location of its new $300-million hospital will be included in the Oxford city limits. Since Chancery Judge Ed Roberts approved the annexation last month, some objectors have dropped out of the case, but three others — Kenneth [...] [...]

Officials pondering new proposal for rental properties

by Associated Press Published: March 11,2013

Tags: city government, inspection, lease, property, rant, real estate, rental, renter

MCCOMB — McComb officials are considering a proposal to require rental property owners to obtain a privilege license and have their properties inspected annually. The Enterprise-Journal reports urban planner Laurence Leyens told the board of selectmen that people make a living from rental properties and it should be treated like any other business. Leyens says [...] [...]

DMR criminal investigation includes charter boat trips

BILOXI — About $80,000 in charter boat trips are now part of a criminal investigation of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, an official has told The Sun Herald. Invoices and letters provided by the DMR indicate the trips were to sample fish for research about artificial reefs, even though the department owns a $389,000 [...] [...]

Alternative fuels company ending all R&D, selling land

NATCHEZ — Rentech Inc. says it plans to mothball its alternative-energy product demonstration facility in Commerce City, Colo., and end all related research and development activities, which will mean cutting 65 employee and contractor positions by mid-year. CEO D. Hunt Ramsbottom says the company intends to focus instead on opportunities for more immediate profitability. Rentech [...] [...]

Coast cities’ annexation battle continues

by Associated Press Published: February 27,2013

Tags: annex, annexation, city government, dispute, growth, land, property, real estate

BILOXI and GULFPORT — A new annexation plan would cut in half the amount of land Biloxi wants to annex on the city’s northwest border. City attorney Ronald Peresich tells The Sun Herald the new boundaries reduce the proposed annexation area from 7.5 square miles to about three square miles. The adjusted area still includes [...] [...]

Ex-DMR board member asked Trust to buy land from boss’ son

by Associated Press Published: February 25,2013

Tags: acquire, acquisition, board, buy, conflict of interest, investigation, land, law, legal, loan, property, purchase, sale, sell, state agncy, sweetheart deal, trust

BILOXI — The head of the Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain says a board member employed by the state Department of Marine Resources asked the trust if it would buy land from her boss’ son, if the department provided some money. The proposal came from Tina Shumate, who resigned early in February as [...] [...]

Bill passes giving home inspector oversight to real estate industry

JACKSON — The state Senate has unanimously approved a bill to give the real estate business oversight over home inspectors in Mississippi. That would put the people most interested in selling homes in charge of regulating and licensing those who are supposed to warn consumers away from houses with major problems, home inspectors tell The [...] [...]

MDEQ freezes city’s grant as probe at DMR continues

by Associated Press Published: February 11,2013

Tags: beach, city government, city manager, environment, grant, invesitgation, investugation, land, leave, marine, property, real estate, state agency

D’IBERVILLE — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has frozen a $3 million grant to see how D’Iberville is using the money. MDEQ spokesman Robbie Wilbur tells The Sun Herald the order was issued Jan. 28. The grant was for work at the Ocean Expo Aquarium. There may be concerns about a conflict of interest. [...] [...]

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