Jackson Jambalaya

Get a Ferris Wheel ride while dodging bullets... free ride if you live!!
I can go with that.

no thanks

nope

Be the first to get in on all fun! Non refundable reservation fees and now being accepted on Venmo and PaypaI.

Who in their right mind would want a luxury apartment in that area? Seriously!

I moved to the Jackson area in late 1996. The first article I read in the CL was the announcement of funding for the Farris Street Entertainment District. I anticipate the same time line on this project.

Lol

So the fair is moving from the fairgrounds to Metrocenter.
Sounds like a match made in heaven. Carnies won’t have to wander far to get a fix.

Where’s the money coming from?

Nice sign. How long before it’s vandalized?

Now we know how the deposit money she took from prospective tenants was spent...looks like a rather expensive sign.

It’s all a con by a career con woman. All you will ever see is “coming soon” signs.

Fits the theme of the alleged new mall owner taking everyone for a ride so far - potential tenants especially

So the fair rides are going to be stored there when they are off season.
Bbbbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaa.

"Trust us"

This, I gotta see. This will end up being a "Take the money and run" scenario. Need to get a good frontal and profile picture before she/they get out of town.

"Where’s the money coming from?" As the banker David Hannum from Syracuse, New York said, "There's a sucker born every minute".

Will it have mixed income housing?

Will it have a BB King's restaurant?

Will it have a parking garage with robots?

Will it have seventeen blues clubs?

Step right up folks! Get your free tickets, rides, & fleecing out of your hard earned money. Metro center turned into a circus. Has failure written all over it.

Movin on up!

stock photography. plenty of promises. now accepting long term leases.

this is the definition of a con job.

Luxury Apartments in the Metro Mall. Yeah. Ok

Reminds me of South Park's Soda Sopa district. You've got to give her kudos for a least dreaming big. Remember the Capitol Green brain fart?

Subsidized Luxury Apartments. Part of the Cares Act?

KF tosses out the raw meat, and the buzzards descend for the feast. Same old, same old.

This reminds me of the joke from decades ago about the guy who puts up a billboard stating "It's coming!", then puts up another billboard stating "It's coming December 1st", then puts up another billboard stating, "It's coming December 1st at 5 PM", and on December 1st at 5 PM, puts up a billboard that stated "It's gone!"

I've said for years that what the Highway 80 corridor really needs is a ferris wheel.

To me there are few things sadder and more creepy than abandoned amusement parks. If you've seen pictures of the one left behind when people fled Chernobyl, you know what I mean.

Nothing would be worse than for her to build the carousel and ferris wheel, then go bankrupt and leave them behind. If that happens, Metrocenter will become a true life setting for an episode of Scooby Doo.

Visions of a Hwy 80 "Harbor Walk".

And yeah, I'm sure there will be more than a few idiots that will give her their life savings.

Did she do Harborwalk?

This reads more like a parking lot carnival than a renovation plan.

All of this except the drive-in theater (yeah, that'll happen) and the "luxury" apartments (yeah, that'll REALLY happen!) could fit in a quarter of the old Belk lot.

Who thinks this stuff up?

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!! I’m gonna ride that Ferris wheel, get the fastest of the go-karts every time, only ride the coolest carousel horse, catch every Saturday night feature flick with my girl.....whew! I’m so excited I can’t type anymore!! When’s it going to open?!? When? When?? I’ve got my fingers crossed that it’s soon, soon, soon!! Please tell it’s open by Christmas!

The ring road, especially the west side, will make a helluva go cart track!! Folks be gettin’ some air from those asphalt moguls.

Jackson is back! A dilapidated zoo and a Ferris wheel! City with Soul indeed

Is she the daughter of a Nigerian prince?

In all honesty, let's give her a shot. It's not like anything good or new is coming to the Fondren anytime soon. I'm all in!

If she could figure out how to get the pot holes - You don't want to go there (Arbys, Krystal, Bank area) to experience them, filled up and leveled out, The loop around the mall would make an incredible go cart track, especially if she furnished it with formula 1 cars. She needs to get right on that idea.

check out the FB metrocenter page for fun reading..

few comments are skeptical..most really believe this will happen

and they decry those who post any negative comments-and i assume plenty of comments are deleted.

how much money would it cost to actually do all this? 50million?

"Trust us. We are as incredulous as you are!"

not enough luxury apartments have go cart tracks, in my opinion.

Anyone have a guess to just how much $$$$$$$$ it would take to repair, repave and remark the parking lot? Can't wait for the 2.0 sign to go up a remake of underground Atlanta right here at Metro Center

I was in that general area Tuesday. When I got off I20 onto Ellis there was this foreboding feeling that came over me and it was even before I barely missed a canyon of a pothole. I lost count of the abandoned hotels and businesses. But, the revival has to start somewhere.

All of this sounds so cool and as a single development could work really well....somewhere other than Jackson,and not headed up by an obvious con artist and crazy person like this lady.

Is this where the Miskelly’s are sending their carousel ? Is the old Farrow Amusement Company going to sell or loan her the Ferris wheel?. This is a blighted area and we all know why. Once lost is forever lost. We can’t go back. Now, she is probably looking at the Brandon Amphitheater to start her next phase of conning someone and blighting that area

I visited the Metrocenter Website and there's a video interview with Ms. Sanders. It consists of some guy following her around the mall taking cell phone video and asking her a couple of basic questions that she has remarkable difficulty answering. For example, he asks her about the returning tenants and all she can name is American Deli.

She does talk about a barber school and a beauty school and Hinds Community College coming in. Huge red flag there. Those are the kind of tenants you see in dying malls that are basically giving away their floorspace to keep foot traffic up. Those are not the kind of tenants you want to lead with.

She also mentions a "state of the art daycare center" whatever that means. I wasn't aware that daycare technology had advanced so greatly.

Finally, the apartments (per the video) are going to be on the lower level. I'm wondering how they will get external windows for some of those spaces, or will they just hope people will live in windowless abodes?

" It's not like anything good or new is coming to the Fondren".

Valid point 9:55.

Those hipster "creatives" over there have been somewhat quite lately.
Come to think of it . . . I haven't heard anything out of the "so called" midtown people either.

However, the Belhaven folks make the news a few times per month.
(Not all of it good news)

Hey 4:09.
I know you are smarter than all of the Hipster Creatives, but there is a big difference in being “quite” or “quiet”
Maybe you skipped that day of English class.

" Maybe you skipped that day of English class."

I got involved with a group that wanted to eat lunch at a organic grocery store in the Fondren,
Everyone started smoking weed in a back room, and before I knew it . . . the day was gone.

So yeah . . . I guess I did skip class that afternoon.

To be successful, the mall would need a real "anchor" store. There isn't one nor will there be one. They left for good reasons, and those reasons still exist.

That former mall is like the Titanic, and that grifter is just rearranging the deck chair$.

I can't decide if this is a con job or just a pipe dream by a poorly led organization. It looks to me like the latter. I don't think this woman has a solid business plan or a financial strategy. I think she just wants to own a mall and thinks if she opens it the tenants will come.

The problem is she's focusing on window dressing crap like carnival attractions. The bedrock of a shopping center is retail, not ferris wheels.

I've known people who got into a business because they wanted to be their own boss, thinking they'd just get it going then reap the benefits. Problem is that owning your own business requires a LOT of work to be successful. For example, I knew a woman who franchised a restaurant and didn't realize she had to get there at 4 am every day to receive fresh produce and pretty much stay until close because she had a tough time finding a manager she could trust to take on the running of the business. She sold it after just over a year.

This woman strikes me a someone who wants to be the "diva" who parks her Mercedes in a prominent "Reserved for Mall Owner" space and greets people at the door, pointing to the ferris wheel and the merry-go-round, saying "look at what I did!"

Without basic retail (clothing, shoes, cosmetics, etc.) you can't maintain a food court and you certainly can't justify carnival rides. This effort is backward and it's very likely to fail.

Maybe this is a con, but a con is deliberate and I don't think this woman is savvy enough to run such a scam. I just think she's a poor businesswoman. Regardless, people will lose money on this. Take that to the bank.

I would think the first step in the process would be to renovate the existing structure. That is going to cost a TON of money and IF it happens it will all be for naught. PEOPLE WILL NOT SHOP THERE. That is why it closed before. If the previous owners and tenants were making money it would still be rolling.

The previous owners and associated professionals had the knowledge AND the wherewithal to make Metrocenter work, and they tried.........yet, there it sits. The current "owner" (you're still gonna have to show me more to make me believe that one) has about a Z E R O percent chance of pulling off ANYTHING on that site. No vision + no money makes for a long road ahead in any kind of real estate venture, especially for retail in the Covid / Amazon climate!

And 7:34, the thing to remember is that she's already been in jail for other schemes in the past. For that reason, I believe this will end up to be a deliberate act of fraud.