Video: Starkville Leaders Financially Back Industrial Park Project

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STARKVILLE, Miss. – (WCBI) Starkville leaders threw their support and funding behind a new industrial park.

A $5 million bond with a two mill tax increase approved Tuesday night will fund the city’s end of the project.

The money will pay for the development of 326-acre Innovation District near the intersection of Highways 25 and 182 on the west side of Starkville.

The Golden Triangle Development Link has said the property could become home to as much as a million square feet of high-tech industry space employing as many as 1,300 people.

Oktibbeha County will pitch in the other $5 million dollars. Work could begin this summer.

They also voted to consolidate the Starkville Electric Department and the Public Works Department in an effort to cut costs. They do not anticipate a rate increase as a result, and is effective immediately.

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