Jackson Jambalaya

there's a lot of vacant stuff in flowood and the dogwood area now....give it 10 years and its the new county line road..

Lakeland will look like I-55 in Jackson after all this is done. This is why you don’t cram as much retail as possible in tight spaces. Madison didn’t do that and they look like they will be ok. Flowood on the other hand not so much.

I've lost quite a bit over the last month, but the same thing happened with my long term investments back in 2008.

Long story short, I can still buy a lawn mower.

What is really taking a beating is the "tourism taxes" which pay for everything from golf courses and Jackson's Convention Center to ball parks and on and on an on. Vicksburg has a sports complex and Carthage has baseball. Hope they can make the bond payments.

Does this include the extra 2% in Jackson?

By the way, pretty easy to figure out to go to outside city limits to purchase something where that could make a difference. Fortunately, most retailers have shut down their redundant locations in Jackson city limits - Academy, Best Buy, etc. - to make this easy for the consumer.

How did they finance that convention center in Rankin and the massive upgrade to the Refuge golf course? Whatever tax revenues come in will get soaked up by that brain fart because no conventions are headed to Rankin county for a while.

What impact does this have on TIF bonds? I'm looking at you, Gene McGee.

"This is why you don’t cram as much retail as possible in tight spaces. Madison didn’t do that and they look like they will be ok. Flowood on the other hand not so much."

Gluckstadt isn't mentioned. It's fast becoming the next Pearl. Give it a drive-by.

Gluckstadt isn't a city officially just yet. Still got that pesky lawsuit to deal with.

How is this a surprise to anyone? When you close things down, there is no tax revenue, except for property owners and those who are net contributors to the economy.

Gluckstadt has become a haven of cheap pre engineered metal buildings. Some people call them Steel Buildings. Yes, they are affordable, but not what you would want for a substantial structure. There IS a difference between a real steel building and metal buildings. The pre engineered “metal” buildings are cost efficient to build but age like a woman who has had bad plastic surgery and needs new procedures every few years. Pearl used to be called the trailer trash capital of Mississippi. Shall we call Gluckstadt the metal building capital of Mississippi? Cheap

Flowood chose this route when they decided to incorporate all the businesses up and down Lakeland/25 and ignored the residential tax base.

I have long felt that retail was overbuilt at the corner of Lakeland Drive and Old Fannin Road in Flowood. I wish that the Market Street shopping development had not been built. I only go to Kroger and PetSmart regularly. Probably go to Target and Lowe's about four times per year. The residential development behind Dogwood Festival and Market Street will also probably be a flop.

12:46 If Gene McGee is true to history, if there is a short fall in the special revenue,TIF, bonds, Ridgeland will make up the short fall with general revenue funds. While this is illegal, Ridgeland did it on County Line Road with the blind eye knowledge of the state auditor & attorney general. People talk about the incompetence of the City Of Jackson need to look at the City of Ridgeland. One is black the other white, but they like the green.

Where is the Rankin Convention Center?

We have Gerald Steen and David Bishop to thank for the disaster that will be Gluckstadt, Mississippi. Our aldermen will never be able to reverse this crap they allowed. A curb-cut every 34 feet for miles. But, Mac Haik has the tallest flag poles in the Southeastern U.S.

ahhh.. 4:15, contraire - you need to check those against Doug White/Capitol Body Shop's on the Loop just behind them... bigger, plus, his is lighted, theirs is not.

And to think, I remember when Gluckstadt was a remote little hamlet with a cool German festival every Fall.