The Columbus Convention and Visitor”s Bureau will be calling a brand new building its new home. Paperwork was signed Thursday to relocate the entity from its present building near the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library on Seventh Street North, to a new building currently being constructed by developer Mark Castleberry on College Street behind the Tennessee Williams Welcome Center.
“We are just very excited about the opportunity to move into a brand new premiere building in Columbus, it is a very appropriate location,” said CVB Director James Tsismanakis. “It brings cohesiveness and it gives us plenty of parking for our events as well as giving us a secondary welcoming lobby for buses that come into town. We think it is going to be a crown jewel for downtown Columbus.”
Tsismanakis said the organization plans to move out of its current building, which is owned by the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway, and into the new one just as soon as the structure is complete.
“We”re hoping in that 15 to 18 months we”ll be ready to move in,” he said.
The CVB”s current offices are owned by the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway.
The CVB will take up most of the first half of the first floor of the three-story, 24,000-square-foot structure.
The organization is purchasing the space for approximately $410,000 and plans to spend an additional $210,000 on furnishings.
The new site, which will also provide considerably more room for the CVB, will be composed of five offices, a conference room, a reception area, a recording studio, a break room and a large multimedia lobby area.
The second floor and rest of the first floor will be sold off for office space by Castleberry. The third floor will be composed of six condominiums.
Work at the building site began in February.
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