Small Towns We've Helped

The Small Town Center works to provide community-specific solutions to local challenges. We do this by providing a variety of design services including community engagement and visioning; master planning; project feasibility studies; downtown revitalizations; bike and pedestrian planning; research; creating and building; grant writing; and design seminars and workshops.

 

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Marks, MS

Marking the Mule Trail: Transportation Project – In July 2015, the Small Town Center at Mississippi State University was awarded a $25,000 Our Town…

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Amory, MS

Public Art – Street art along the town's main road in what is known locally as Vinegar Bend. 

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Bay Springs, MS

Bay Springs Visioning Plan: A visioning plan for the city of Bay Springs, MS, 2022.

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Byram, MS

Byram Recreation Master Plan: This project was recognized by the Mississippi Chapter of the American Planning Association with the 2019 Public…

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Macon, Brooksville, and Shuqualak, MS

A transportation plan created for Noxubee County explaining the many different ways for a community to support active transportation.

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Laurel, MS

As their downtown grows and changes, the city of Laurel has discovered the need for an attractive, yet, adaptable wayfinding solution.

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Smithville, MS

Smithville Downtown Recovery Plan – The Small Town Center worked as part of the FEMA Long Term Recovery team to begin to rebuild the community of…

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Mount Olive, MS

The STC worked alongside Pastor Tony Duckworth to bring to life his vision of a new campus for Grace Christian School and Mount Olive Ministries.

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Additional
 Research and Work

The Small Town Center conducts research that seeks to provide solutions to problems faced by communities across the nation.

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