Jackson Jambalaya

You do realize a building 60x100 is roughly the size of most houses in Madison?

TEN employees? Puleeze.

Ha! Maybe they can sell Baby Chok some more water meters.

Oh, wait! Sorry. It's the size of ten Madison houses in the city or five in the county. But, the point remains. Small taters.

Siemens may not be considered a "small business" from its parent company standpoint but hiring ten people is not "small taters". Small businesses drive this country. Plus tell the ten people that get hired, receive insurance, save for retirement, and invest back in the community that they are "small taters". Pitiful.

huh. commenters on a right-leaning blog being critical of job creation...go figure.

600x100=60,000

Bright spark, 60,000 sf = sixty-thousand sf = 60' x 1,000' = 30 average sized homes, or 200' x 300'.

@3:00PM
Small taters are better than no taters. Siemens didn't have to send that job here. They could've set up shop in Arkansas or Tennessee.

Um...2:58, do you Math much?

This is huge!

Forklift operators and truck dirvers make good money!

I read "initially employ ten (10) individuals with opportunity to expand up to 100 employees and additional warehouse space." Good for them (Clinton). At least they get a company and with Continental opening up. Wish the city of Canton got Amazon, but that's what happens up here, all in the county to keep the taxes out of the city and pockets.

Clinton is the one bright spot in Hinds County where a corporation feels safe with their investment and the likelihood they can find a good labor pool.

Siemens had a warehouse in South haven, they have moved their products to a warehouse in Clinton now, I seriously doubt they will employ 100 employees at this location.

How much did “M D A” grant them???? Hmmmm?

I saw a new Wendy’s is being built on highland colony. Make sure to alert the presses. Huge win for the state with all those high paying jobs. Congrats to Tater and all who worked tirelessly to realize this dream!

No MDA money. This was all Clinton.

Is it true there is only one liquor store west of Interstate 55 in Madison/Ridgeland? The one up by Kroger? And where are the damned grocery stores in a roaring community this size? Meanwhile, there are five pet-food stores for soccer moms to hang out in. And donut shops? Count them.

Just to put it in perspective, the AVERAGE Wal-Mart is 180,000 square feet (Largest in Albany NY, 260k square ft).

Walmart's Family Markets are about 40,000 square ft.

Kingfish, I know you have sources, but how do you determine that no MDA money is funneled into a project?

There is a building in our county, hasn't had a Real Business in it since the mid 80s, when the Owners went bankrupt after 2 decades in business. Has it's own Rail Spur. The County ended up with it. Since then it's been a revolving door of Grant funded Fly by Night ventures, all given tax deferrals. One was supposed to be a Furniture Manufacturer hiring 40 people. It never made a chair leg, had 3-4 employees % eventually became a hodgepodge flea market.

After several other in & outs, it was sold for a song...to one of the Justice Court Judges for 125k, then Ripped all the Electrical & Copper buss out, disassembled & sold 1 building.


Then another local front page picture with the new owner from Texas. He had been driving through, saw this vacant building, stopped & observed all these empty flat bed semis passing by...cheap transportation of "Mulch".

So it was bought, the county EDA made all the usual comments about jobs and opportunity. "Someone" paid for a NEW 1 million dollar packaging line & 250k of outside mobile processing equipment. The air supply was a portable compressor left on the shipping pallet. Never a job posted. About 5 people were hired, all either without a job, or with a Criminal history. After about 6 months, their "Orders" suddenly dried up. The local manager was able to go back to his permanent job, without any loss of time, vacation, benefits or break in employment. They laid off 1/2 the workforce (2), leaving 2. Packed up the New million dollar packaging line & shipped it to their Texas location. The 2 employees just sat there until the 1 year requirement was satisfied, they had already filed a notice of dissolution. That was the end of 2018. Someone finally took down the 2 vinyl 3x6 signs, attached to steel fence posts...the only indication it was ever there. The parent company never had an EEO statement on their TX website. Now there is a New MDA sign, announcing a grant to pave the entrance into the property in anticipation of a new tenant. Never an article in the paper about it closing, & it was only recently removed as an active business on the County EDA website. The largest employer in the County is the local Community College with 200. The 3rd largest is the County School system with 100. The 7th largest is the Regional Jail with 55. # 12 is the only Grocery store with 30? I've never seen 30 people shopping. #16 is all the County "Volunteer" Fire departments with 20 employees?

Even Warehauser got in on this last opportunity with funds provided to buy 20 acres for the Expansion....that never came.

Building A – 80,000 +/- sf warehouse with 1500 +/- sf of office space / Overhead Doors/800 ft Rail Spur Access/New 3 phase electrical / Overhead Heavy Duty Lift/High side walls.
Building B – 36,000 +/- sf warehouse with open storage shed.
overhead crane, One 18' roll up ground level & two 14' roll up ground level with One Dock High 18' roll up.

Land:
42 acres total – Approx. 22 acres open with paved, concrete and gravel access drives & 20 acres on west side in plantation pines.

Potential uses: Agricultural, Timber, Manufacturing and Industrial.

$650,000.00....

I live at Reunion, and my house is barely half that size.

Just you wait til Highway 22 is six-laned from Canton to Edwards. Flora will boom in such a manner as to make Madison's story irrelevant. Industry and housing will set records. Everybody wants to be able to get to the slots quickly.

The size of a damned warehouse is totally irrelevant. All that matters are what the business brings to the community table in terms of the number of jobs, new housing units, infrastructure improvements and civic participation. It's called old-school values.