Jackson Jambalaya

I think the Greek gyro place left due to being a Jew hating bastard more than the food or lack of business. Very good food! Very odd man.

@ 10:11..agree!

The Greek place was called Wraps. And I agree with 10:11, that guy was crazy. Apparently he decided to complain about Jews to a random customer turned out to be a rabbi. That pretty much ruined his business from what I understand. It's a shame, too. His gyros were better than Keifer's.

Pine Cone, Ace Hardware, Greek gyro place (don't remember the name), possibly Pizza Hut.

But Petco! Go GTFO little businesses that helped us through more difficult times...we've got a big box client coming in!

They'd dump McDade's, Beemon's, Nandy's or Brock's if anything more appealing showed a whiff of interest.

Oh, and how about fixing those right-twice-a-day clocks on the tower that haven't worked since about a week after they were installed?

This will be a good location for C P R.

Don't know what y'all are complaining about, they still have the Hat Shop! That's where Lorita gets her from!

Higher rent (since Whole Foods moved in across the street) is what killed Miller Ace. Likely the same story for CPR, plus that west side of Maywood in general has a different mix of shoppers due to the other stores there. Wouldn't be surprised if the same rent issue was what drove Yanny (Wraps) out, though he'd be talking about wanting to go elsewhere (Mobile, the Coast, etc.) for a long time.

no need to worry a good place for a new strip club,or adult video store,

Is the Yazoo Sub-Strata that much different just a couple of blocks down da road?

Judging from the posters that frequent this blog, don't we all have a right to hate whomever we want to hate without being a bastard? And there is no universal law requiring excellent customer service.

"And there is no universal law requiring excellent customer service."

indeed, Popeyes has thrived on having openly hostile and incompetent servers. I think it adds to the spice that makes me keep coming back.

I can see the billboards on 55N @ terry now( May woody mart gentlemen's club)

Rumor has it Beemon's is shuttering or moving. Say it ain't so!

Indeed, say it ain't so re Beemon! We've been trading there for nearly 25 years. They just invested in a pretty major (for them) renovation/update of the pharmacy area, technology, etc. I would think the only thing that would run Lester off would be sky high rent increases.

Clarkes cleaners ??
Not sure why they left Maywood - they bounced around Maywood a couple times moving to different locations there.
Clarkes may be gone all together ....

That whole shopping center is bad. I don't feel safe going over there... especially to the side that faces I55... Why ANY business would want to open a store in that area is beyond me.

@1:01pm, 10:11am here. Absolutely! Wraps dude can be as much an ass as he likes and hate on whatever group he wants. However, you do so at your on peril when you run a business that interacts with various walks of life each day. I was just pointing out that he was publicly exposed and likely suffered for it.

Just like a baker shouldn't have to bake a cake for a gay wedding. Do what you please with your business... but be prepared if bad business decisions or moral judgement shuts you down. One thing is for sure, the person he offended didn't cry to the courts for justice, they just let the bad press and exposure do it for them.

Coming soon: Black Diamonds North

KF: do a list of all the biz leaving Highland Village and ones about to leave. They have tripled rent

THIS...

Just like a baker shouldn't have to bake a cake for a gay wedding. Do what you please with your business... but be prepared if bad business decisions or moral judgement shuts you down. One thing is for sure, the person he offended didn't cry to the courts for justice, they just let the bad press and exposure do it for them.

What is going in Julep space?

I've been shopping Maywood Mart since before there was a "part facing I55N. Indeed, before I55N existed. Cannot express how much I miss the hardware store and the possibility of losing Beemon's is daunting. The chain drug stores are so inconsistent and cannot control what they have to dispense. They just have to take whatever their warehouse is stocking in the way of generics. Someone could buy the old Steak House and make it a fine apothecary. I appreciate CPR telling us where he is going. The out of town buyers just don't understand Jackson and what we are willing to pay. I've only been to Sam's once and that was because I had to.

@12:59
The answer to you question is YES. Yazoo clay can be near the surface in one location and 40 feet deep only a few yards away. That's why when soil testing is done multiple bores are made throughout the site. None the less it is one bad mamajama.

The shopping center with Picadilly is going to shit. They have that bar behind them and the patrons leave a mess every night. Why do you think the party planning biz left on Old Square Road?

Feel better 8:56? Getting that negative shit off your chest making you feel all grown up??

8:56. That area has so declined that the Distict at Eastover is just a mirage in your blind, redneck eyes. Right? Right???

Zoning for gentlemen's clubs is restricted to the current areas they are in. Too bad. Would like to shop at McDade's and then hit a gentlemen's club thereafter without moving my car.

Yani Allis at Wraps was not and is not a Jew hater. He had a salad named Jew salad if I recall. It was a small salad and I had it many time. All of his food was very good. The last that I heard was that he was looking for a new location. Whoever the victim of the alleged hate speech appears to have been someone who was overly sensitive and rather than asking Yani what he meant, he had to make a big issue, much like the BLM folks and other 'victim' groups causing a more fractured USA. If you live long enough you will sometimes have your feelings hurt but I have always found it to be better for me to go ahead with my life and not worry about someone who thinks that I should live differently.

3:24
Gee, thanks for the comment, Yani.
Your "small" salad was called a "Jew Salad" because it was small. The Rabbi that you insulted just didn't like your obvious anti-semitism. You go right ahead and live your life, just keep your Jew-hating ass our of Jackson.

12:12 hey bar owner!

Isn't it near Whole Foods? There's your guaranteed traffic flow right there. Plus the Indian motel under the under-pass.

A new restaurant is coming to the Ace Hardware site.
I go to Maywood Mart all the time as it's near my home.
The businesses that closed some time ago didn't have enough customers and that had nothing to do with location. The Greek restaurant was in decline before the controversial remarks for other reasons. I had stopped going long before .If you don't provide good service , a clean, pleasant space , a consistently good product, and you don't keep up with the changes in the market, you lose customers and go into decline. It's that simple.
The only time I've ever been uneasy at Maywood Mart was when there was a Neo-Nazi openly carrying and just standing in the middle of the Starbucks. Fortunately, he has not returned. I expect he was disappointed that he wouldn't find an excuse to shoot.
Because I frequent the stores in Maywood Mart, I've had an opportunity to learn that even the customers who don't look like me, are like me. They work hard, love their children ,have nice manners and aren't afraid of their own shadows! I know professors, doctors, lawyers, teachers, nurses, musicians, artists and business owners who don't look like me. They have enriched my life. They have become friends and supported me in illness and sadness just like my friends who look like me.
If some of you would bother to get to know people who don't look like you, you might find your life will be enriched as well. Good and decent people come in all sizes, shapes and colors. If you are prejudiced, then you limit your world.

July 31, 2016 at 8:00 AM = Same troll who thought Pizza Hut was next door to McAlister's.

I like Maywood Mart because of its convenience. I go to the new, fabulous Watercolors (formerly Brocks) and Starbucks. However, the parking lot is similar to a bumper cars game. I got hit last month by a nice lady in her huge Infinity SUV backing out of a parking space without looking. However, everything ended well with the repair.

While all of you elderly citizens keep preaching about maywood mart, the younger people are doing everything they can to never set foot in Jackson, and Mississippi as well. Take a look at the majority clientele in maywood mart. Elderly white people. In ten years, that area will be just like the rest of Jackson. Maybe sooner.

To 4:28 about the list of local places that have left Highland Village since the new owners from Boston have taken over:

Polka Dot Pony
The Early Settler
Crazy Cat Bakers
Inside Out
Olde Tyme Commisary
Mozingo's
Earth Walk
SAS Shoes
Juniker Jewelers
Ginger Snaps
Albrittons (not yet, but have announced plans to leave)

There may be more that I can't think of, I left Julep off the list since their closing wasn't 100% the fault of WS Development.

The new owners are only interested in forcing locals out, and bringing national chains in....with very few exceptions...(word is that Masion Weiss were the only ones to get a good deal, maybe someone told WS Development if they left there would be riots.)

Also, from an employee at one of the new chains that have been brought in, business isn't good....somedays they are lucky to make one sale.

I really miss those big, soft, comfy, plastic chairs at Red Arrow Car Wash where you could see all the fat women with chihuahuas perched up on their breasties and smell the cardboard pine trees over on the display rack. Some things cannot be replaced.

Class, service and style are disappearing right here before our very eyes.

I really must commend 8:00 for giving us one of the rare positive comments that I wish more posters could swap for the negative & VILE spew attracted by Anonymous users

I really must commend 8:00 for giving us one of the rare positive comments that I wish more posters could swap for the negative & VILE spew attracted by Anonymous users

Bring Back The Little Red Hen

8:00, so just because someone has a desire to protect themselves while in the ghetto, they are a neo nazi? It's prejudice people like you that are the reason Mississippi is frowned upon. Please stay in your ghetto, and keep your prejudice views out of my quite neighborhood to the north.

I think Annelle Primos got a pretty good lease deal as well at Highland Village.

What is a "quite" neighborhood??

Where did Yanni go? Wraps was the best Greek in town...I miss it and hope he opened elsewhere/

Robert Redd wants us to straighten up so badly that he felt obligated to tell us twice.

Kingfish: How does your policy of tolerance, anti-libel, a slander radar and peaceful commentary square with you allowing a merchant to be referred to as a 'Jew Hating Bastard'?

One is reminded of the hundreds of times you say, "Your comment was fine up until you said....."