In November 2011, the Town of Mount Olive received a Transportation Enhancement Funding Grant from the Mississippi Department of Transportation to extend its tree-lined boulevard through downtown Mount Olive. This grant requires matching funding from the town of Mount Olive.
The non-profit organization City Beautiful in Mount Olive pledged to help raise this matching funding by having fund raising events.
"Mount Olive is moving forward!" said one Mount Olive committee member. "This dream is actually going to become a reality. We so appreciate the ideas from the charrette team. We have hope of our little town coming alive again...thanks to the charrette."
"The Town of Mount Olive is very excited and never believed that something like this would be happening in their town," said Stacy Pair, Southern District Director for Mississippi Main Street. "They have formed a committee that is in charge of the landscaping and they are ready to move."
"Mount Olive was one of three cities that the MMSA Charrette Team worked with in Covington County in 2009," said Jeremy Murdock of the MSU Stennis Institute. "The team recommended that the county use their three big assets: the river, the rail and the road. Mount Olive's asset was the road. The town had the nice boulevard that extended up to the downtown but not through it. The team recommended that they extend the boulevard into the downtown and expand their most unique feature."
As a result of the charrette, the Mount Olive steering committee applied for the grant and received in in November 2011.
Team members included Ben Muldrow of Arnett Muldrow, Jeremy Murdock of the MSU Stennis Institute, Andy Kalback of Kalback Design, Randy Wilson of Community Design Solutions and Stacy Pair of Mississippi main Street Association.
By Jeannie Waller
Article compiled from WDAM, Covington County Neighborhood News and Charrette Team Member reports.
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