Planters Bank opens in Silo Square

Being at Silo Square is important for a number of reasons, Burnett said. Location is just one reason.

“The Getwell Road corridor between Church and Goodman is kind of the heartbeat of DeSoto County,” Burnett said. “This is the center of the universe for DeSoto County. Brian (Hill) just put an exclamation point on it when he did it (Silo Square).

Burnett also said the location fits because of the makeup of businesses and nearby residential areas that Planters wants to serve. The entertainment and recreational availability from Snowden Grove across the street also fit into the vision of connecting with the community.

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Lexie Hill
Silo Square development exceeding expectations

Mayor Darren Musselwhite, who has been a champion of the Silo Square development, said he is extremely pleased to see the city’s first entertainment district coming together, and that it will become a destination point for tourism.

“This area has been a vision of ours for several years and is now becoming a reality,” Musselwhite said. “It is going to bring enjoyment for so many of our citizens with new restaurants, shopping, and a pedestrian-friendly lifestyle like never before. Personally seeing this progress is very rewarding to me as this has been one of my priorities in bringing amenities to Southaven that have never existed here before.”

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Lexie Hill
2021 Southaven Magazine: Talk Of The Town

Master plans detailing Silo Square’s original 228 acres encompass 300+ single-family homes, 275+ luxury loft apartments, a town square center with six retail and/or restaurant outparcels, one bank outparcel, two hotels, 13 mixed-use town square buildings, three office lots, and a farmer’s market all providing approximately 250,000 square feet of commercial space.

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Lexie Hill
Staks Pancake Kitchen headed to Southaven’s Silo Square

“We couldn’t have asked for a better spot to expand Staks’ footprint,” Staks owner Brice Bailey said in a release. “Silo Square is going to be a game-changing development for Southaven, and we look forward to bringing our high-quality, locally sourced breakfast and lunch offerings to the scene.”

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Lexie Hill
Silo Square in Southaven

When fully built out, the 288-acre, $200 million Silo Square will have 304 gated, residential lots with houses costing from about $225,000 to $400,000-plus; six retail outparcels; one bank outparcel; two hotels; 16 mixed-use lots; three office lots; a 2.6-acre farmers market; 10 acres for 128 loft apartments; and 64 acres of open green space.

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Southaven celebrates Silo Square groundbreaking

Car-centric Southaven on Tuesday celebrated the groundbreaking of Silo Square, the suburb's planned community that aspires to blend businesses and housing in a way that is easy, even pleasing, to walk around.

"This is going to be a game-changing development for our city,'' Mayor Darren Musselwhite told about 75 people gathered under a tent near the old, concrete farm silo from which the development draws its name and branding for quaintness.

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Southaven developer proposes square deal for growing suburb

In 1970, Southaven was an unincorporated, 9,000 resident town.  It was so sleepy that it lacked even a McDonald's.

By it's incorporation in 1980, about 16,000 people called it home, and by 2000, it held about 29,000 residents.  Today, more than 53,000 people live in the fastest-growing city, located just over the state line from Memphis.

And yet, Southaven lacks a true center.

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