Gee said business has been great since she opened. “So, I actually started the store with the heart of wanting every young mom to be able to afford cute boutique clothing, to wear things that I couldn’t have.” “We didn’t have a lot of money when I was growing up and I never got to have cute clothes or cute shoes,” Gee said. Owner Cassie Gee told me she decided to open the store to give the community what she didn’t have growing up: affordable options for clothing and accessories. 7 at 1920 Military Road in the old Spirit Shoppe liquor store. Moving on to The Friendly City, Cassie’s Closeouts and Couture, a discount women’s and children’s clothing store, opened on Sept. I’m glad to see he got it all nailed down just in time for MSU to kick some Razorbacks back to Arkansas this weekend. 1.Įlarba told me in mid September he was waiting for a health inspection before opening. Jose Elarba has reopened his Venezuelan cafe and bar Arepas at their brand new location at 102 Rue Du Grande Fromage on Oct. If those exciting updates don’t do it for you, maybe this will. “We thought this was the perfect thing to bring back post-pandemic.” “This is really just a rebrand of an old event, a citywide tailgate that we started and a couple of nonprofits carried throughout the years,” Watson said. Paige Watson, Starkville Main Street director, said it was high time for the tailgate’s return. We’re encouraging them to get as creative as possible.” Many stores are also doing specials, discount tables and decorations, Mississippi State decorations. “We’re encouraging them (the businesses) to set up a tailgate,” said Hunter Harrington, GSDP’s director of development. As part of the event, shoppers will also receive various discounts and prizes at participating businesses. GSDP representatives told me 40 businesses across the city will participate by setting up tailgate tents with food, games and fanfare as Mississippi State welcomes back many of its alums during this weekend’s homecoming celebration. The tailgate was last held in 2019 but was canceled the following two years due to COVID-19. The event is sponsored by the Greater Starkville Development Partnership. The once annual tradition of a citywide tailgate returns Friday, beginning at 11 a.m. The old JCPenney building isn’t the only thing experiencing a revival in Starkville. When I tried to speak with company leadership about the new location, no one overseeing the project was available. The company acquired a building permit to renovate the space in April. Its Starkville location, 864 Highway 12 W., was home to JCPenney from 1993 to June 2020, when it was one of 154 locations in 38 states shuttered that year. 17 in the former JCPenney building in Starkville, according to the company website.īealls and Burkes is a clothing and home goods store located in 13 states with 17 locations in Mississippi, including one in Columbus at the Leigh Mall on Old Aberdeen Road. Bealls, whose headquarters also are in Bradenton, owns 550 stores under the names of Bealls, Bealls Outlet, Burkes Outlet, and Home Centric.A Bealls and Burkes Outlet store will open Nov. Home Centric sells home décor and home gifts. “We’re looking for midsize towns that have a demographic population that matches where we’re otherwise successful,” he said.īurkes Outlet specializes in apparel, housewares, shoes, and accessories. He added the company already has stores in Virginia, and their success prompted this move. The combined space for both stores is 30,600 square feet, and Doyle said he expects to employ 15-20 people at the two stores. “It’ll be a combo store front that’ll say Burkes Outlet on one side, and Home Centric on the other side, which is our new home chain that we’re rolling out.” “That will be what we refer to as a combination store,” he said. The businesses will be in the space formerly occupied by Peebles. GLOUCESTER – Burkes Outlet and Home Centric, both owned by Bealls, are coming to York River Crossing Shopping Center.īurkes Senior VP Dan Doyle said the openings are scheduled for May 2.
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