This comes as plans are also underway for improving the Natchez Convention Center, the city’s 22-year-old primary venue for large gatherings of state associations and other groups. The Convention Center project – budgeted at about $3 million – has been delayed till August so construction work won’t interfere with the facility’s full schedule of meetings in the next few months.
Smith Painting & Contracting will focus on the building’s main assembly hall to apply new wall coverings, carpet and paint – including the removal of the cracked paint blemishing the upper ductworks and ceiling – and repairing the moveable walls. Among those conventioning there: the Mississippi Department of Transportation, the Mississippi Firefighters Association and the Mississippi Head Start Association.
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An agreement is being worked out for leasing part of the city-owned Broadway Street railroad depot to the company that manages the Natchez Convention Center. The Board of Aldermen on Tuesday authorized its attorney to finalize the lease agreement with Warren Reuther’s company, which also owns the nearby Natchez Grand Hotel. No details were publicly discussed at Tuesday’s board meeting about what the company’s plans are for the circa 1915 historic landmark. A portion has been renovated for Visit Natchez, the city’s tourism agency. Reuther’s company – New Orleans Hotel Consultants – would lease the building’s other half.
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