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Jul 15, 2021 | 10:35 PM
NATCHEZ, Miss. – The mayor and city aldermen unveiled plans Thursday to demolish the Fry Building and put a downtown Natchez parking garage in its place.
The Board of Aldermen voted to accept property owner Walter Davis III’s donation of the building to the city, which will have it torn down and then construct a multilevel parking facility, said Mayor Dan Gibson.
Once the city’s largest office building – located on the corner of Pearl and Franklin streets the 1950s structure has deteriorated and been partly vacant for several years.
Gibson said a parking garage could help prompt the renovation and reopening of the adjacent Eola Hotel, which has been closed since 2014. Developers since then have planned and begun work to refurbish the 1927 landmark, but that’s been stalled the past couple of years.
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