Lowndes County Supervisor Harry Sanders says the county still wants to buy property around the Columbus Soccer Complex and turn the area into a park.
Sanders, the board’s president, talked about the plans Thursday at a meeting of the Columbus Exchange Club at Lion Hills.
Lowndes County has been vocal its support for the Soccer Complex and surrounding properties becoming turned into a park. Sanders compared it to Central Park in New York or Audubon Park in New Orleans. City officials have said they favor turning the properties surrounding the complex over to a developer and building condominiums and apartment complexes in the area, Sanders said.
“My answer to that is if you go and look at every apartment complex in Columbus, Mississippi, that’s over 25 years old, every one of them are in need of repair, a new roof, paint job, windows need fixed, gutters need fixed, concrete driveways need repairing,” Sanders said. “You don’t want that to happen to Burns Bottom and the Soccer Complex 25 years from now.”
Sanders said he has a meeting with city officials Tuesday to discuss the issue further.
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