‘Hollow promises’: DeSoto board demands action on stalled Landers hotel
DeSoto County officials use shovels to toss dirt during the Landers Center Convention Center expansion groundbreaking ceremony on Aug. 28, 2025. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
When officials broke ground on the multi-million-dollar Landers Center expansion last year, Southaven Mayor Darren Musselwhite called the project a “Super Bowl” of challenges and negotiations.
The $85 million undertaking includes not only the convention center renovations, but also a new 240-room Embassy Suites hotel designed to connect directly to the expanded venue.
Musselwhite said at the time he was assured by hotelier Bruce Patel the project would be completed. But as construction on the convention center enters the fourth quarter, work on the hotel is still in the first half — and barely so.
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Aarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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