Jackson Jambalaya

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Who cares the zoo sucks and Jackson is a shithole.

Hmmmm! Sumpin' fishee gwain' on rount heeruh.

If the city council did it's investigation and "due diligence" it would only result in more bad news. They don't want to hear no more bad news.

From LinkedIn, it appears Zooceanrium Group has many UAE/Dubai project directors and administration. It's probably a foreign entity with US headquarters in St Louis.

I noticed that too, 9:21...Next we'll see Baby Chock buy a pig in a poke and contracting with Dubai to build 40 story glass structures in west Jackson and Chock will be made an honorary Prince. Man! Talk about a resume' bullet point!

ZoOceanarium, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is headquartered in Dubai.

The city can’t afford a zoo. They can’t even afford to fix potholes.

The city could afford a zoo if it was well maintained and properly run like a business generating a profit for the city in a safe part of town. Problem is, none of that will ever happen. It’s located in an absolute warzone. Most of your customers aren’t going to risk getting hit by stray bullets to go to a run down zoo. It’s just not feasible at this point where it is located. Demolish the useless Smith/Wills and relocate the zoo on that property. Let the blight surrounding the current zoo finally engulf the property.

Amazing that The City of Jackson is spending good money on ads for tourists on high dollar programs like Limbaugh radio nd football TV. For What? Also perhaps even more amazing is the ads use the word/s "safe" or "safely" to indicate that unlike other tourist destinations Jackson is especially safe to visit for the Soul.False ad claims to follow. It never ends.

How do these big companies who do business with Jackson stay in business?
Look at Siemens. They lost a boatful of money dealing with Jackson.

@10:45am - They knew it would be a minority contract write-off before they signed. Just the cost of doing business.

Zooquarium list a mailing address of 460 Briarwood Dr., Suite 100, at the Triad Business Center. Problem is they do not have an office at this location, they just use it to forward their mail. Face it, Chokwe has no feasible plan and is trying to put one together with tape, smoke and mirrors. Chokwe has no idea what to do or how to do it. It’s sad to watch mediocrity in motion. It’s even sadder to watch people defend Chokwe’s incompetence. This ends poorly.

As stated $1,200,000.00 is a little more than $990,000.00 a year. $210,000.00 a year is more than “a little more”. P.s. that’s $5000.00 more EACH And EVERY WEEK.

If the contract T&Cs were a big win Antard would have blow his horn loud about it a long time ago. He's stuck the city with a $6 million dollar collection of zoo animals. Nobody on that Council is going to get in the way.

Now the flat rate water billing? That's going to be a HUGE problem.

Please oh please......... let it be owned by Carol Baskin or Joe Exotic

My hunch is that there is Chinese (Chicom) money behind this. Don't laugh; if they can own the Biden crime family they can own zoos.

Common sense is no longer common, and political pragmatism appears obsolete in this case. The city of Jackson has more pressing issues, e.g., crime,infrastructure, widespread city blight, that should be addressed and prioritized rather than pouring money it can ill afford into a zoo.

When the real Mississippi Winter arrives in a few months, the pipes will freeze, burst . . . and the few remaining animals confined out there will suffer even more.

When that happens, I want to see some Movie stars (representing PETA)
. . . buck ass neck'id . . . on West Capitol with their "animal abuse" signs.

To clarify, I only wish to see the hot girls from Hollywood neck'id at the zoo.

Has there been any kind of vote by the CC yet? I'd like to see who endorsed it who nixed it.

A zoo in the current location is sheer stupidity. Kenneth is a squeaky wheel and his tantrums will cost JXN plenty if they come to fruition.

This kind of stupidity is why so many want to leave Jackson so badly. Sadly, their hoe have LOST value and they can't afford to sell.

Glad I'm not paying property taxes in this God forsaken city anymore. Seriously folks, you can't make this stuff up!

I get the feeling this is a front for the old Collins Zoo. I'd put money on it that this place won't be run any better.

Actually the previous management company was only receiving $880k. Com’on Kingfish you should know that, you served on the board 😂. Seriously though, Mr. Davis mentioned in the meeting that his Company was AZA accredited which is a flat out lie! All accredited institutions are listed on AZA.org look it up for yourself... Also, check out this page https://www.zoolex.org/firm/47/. Seems as if this company has never actually managed a Zoo, only architect work. In the past, Dr. Blaine has said ZoOceanarium manages the St Louis Aquarium, found out that was a lie too— after a couple phone calls.

Nothing but another airport style kickback scheme. Those poor animals.

Just so we are seeing 360, the City Attorney that had been working on this was really sick with Covid. Furthermore, a Councilman was sick as well. They didn't want to take action without the input of the City Attorney that had worked on this. I know the City looks to everyone as some sort of evil entity, and probably as is the case with every government or private sector entity, some don't have perfect intentions. But in this case, I feel like the Council as a whole was trying to do the right and prudent thing.