A new Starkville retirement community is scheduled to open by the end of 2015.
The Claiborne at Adelaide will be located at 1980 S. Montgomery St., adjacent to the Starkville Country Club.
Dori Jenrette, executive director, told The Dispatch the community will cover a total of 81,460 square feet. Roughly 59,000 of that will be for assisted living areas. The remaining 21,000 square feet will consist of two- and three-bedroom cottages. It will be located on an old dairy farm. Land began being cleared in September.
Jenrette said The Claiborne at Adelaide will consist of 82 total units. Some cottages will offer fully-equipped kitchens, laundry rooms and private patios. Some areas will offer residential support for individuals with memory-related impairments. Some areas will offer “resort-style” living arrangements. The community will offer restaurant-style dining, an on-site rehab center and movie theater.
It will employ more than 30 people when it opens in early December. More will be hired in 2016, according to Jenrette.
The Claiborne at Adelaide is currently taking reservations. For more information visit theclaiborne.com or call 662-268-9555.
Moving on.
A downtown Columbus business is closing.
Winphrey’s Formals, located at 224 Fifth St. S., has multiple signs on its windows stating, “Going out of business,” and “Store closing sale.” The Dispatch attempted to contact the owners. We were unsuccessful.
Lastly, GameStop, the nation’s biggest video-game chain, is going old school.
A Washington Post article in late April detailed how the chain, faced with online and retail rivals cutting into its business, is making a push to buy and trade-in shoppers’ old consoles — original Nintendos and PlayStations, for example.
The push began at 250 brick-and-mortar stores in New York and Alabama. It will expand to all GameStop locations by the end of 2015, according to the Washington Post article. The plan calls for the old consoles to be sent to a 180,000 square foot workshop in Texas, where workers will inspect and repackage them before sending them out to stores.
The Dispatch contacted the GameStop in Columbus — it’s at 1725 Hwy. 45 N. — to see if they were taking part. We were told to contact the chain’s corporate office. We did. We did not hear back by press time.
There is also a GameStop in Starkville at 911 Hwy. 12 W.
There are about 40 GameStops in Mississippi.
Fun fact: The Texas-based chain began in the 1980s with seed money from Ross Perot.
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William Browning was managing editor for The Dispatch until June 2016.
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