STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) – One By one, city leaders and economic developers lined up with golden shovels to break ground on a new hotel.

“It is a great opportunity to get a crowd together and get excited about the largest hotel development in the city of Starkville,” Said John Rush, President and CEO of MSU Foundation

The 122-room Hotel Madelon will serve as an anchor for the planned Crossroads development.

It is the first phase of a four-phase project designed to draw people to the city to visit and live, and help improve the city’s bottom line.

“If you come in here for just a football or basketball game, you slip in on highway 12 and 82, and you slip out, and you really do not see what great things we have to offer,” said Rush. “This hotel will be a magnet on the hillside, that will

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