Jackson Jambalaya

property located in jackson = hell no

When the nuns leave then you know it’s bad. Now you see how bad Jackson has become.

lol no, couldn’t pay me $150k to take it and have to deal with the crime, taxes, and upkeep.

That’s the old Alta Woods Presbyterian church. They sold it years ago. The Carmalite nuns are still next door

Wasn't Brother Malone once the pastor there?

More about how to get it re-zoned. 5 acres, right next to the Interstate, already has traffic lights to get in and out?

As residential or light commercial, probably not going anywhere. As light industrial, like a truck stop? Might work.

How far we have fallen. Selling churches.

No He was at Daniel Memorial until he went to Griffith Memorial Church down Terry Road. Byron was a Baptist minister.

Talking to a police officer after a upstanding youth of the Jackson area shot out our window and Southside Assembly church, he said the homeless have taken it over to smoke crack. So if you can imagine the quality building you will be getting with this purchase. Plus it had a really bad roof leak, so the inside is nice and ripe. Not exactly sure what led to the church's demise.

Does it include gun towers and a moat?

To add to my post. I really wish New Horizon church would either fix the old walmart/Big Lots or tear it down. The roof has caved in and trees are growing on top of it. Where is code enforcement. It is a very dangerous situation.

Finally! The perfect location for my dirty mop emporium! I can finally unload all these dirty mops I’ve been collecting from schools and prisons! I plan to capitalize on this popular fashion trend!

Does it come with the graveyard ?

This church was still in use up until a year ago. Should be in decent shape for a south Jackson congregation looking for a new building. I don't know about the afore-mentioned roof leak. The Carmelite Monastery is next door to the north and Alta Woods Methodist Church next door to the south. I live in this neighborhood, and have most of my life, and there is very little crime. My property taxes are less than $600/yr with a 3bd/2.5ba house on a fifth of an acre lot across the park. I don't know why but Alta Woods has managed to always be a pretty good neighborhood in south Jackson. The biggest problem right know is there are around five houses, some burned, that have been abandoned and their lots should be scraped. Otherwise its fine.

1:10
You must be getting the Senior discount on your property taxes. Right?

Jackson is in the shitter. Canton has fallen. Madison is on the precipice. Pearl and Clinton are teetering. Pelahatchie and Brandon are not even in the game.

And now this thread, with KingFish entering the auction bidness represents the fall of the empire.

Winona-north is the only game plan.

@1:10 you must be deaf. Place sounds like a shooting range and drag strip. We are having church on Sunday AM and Raymond road sounds like NHRA nationals is going on outside.

Came here to say that this may be the very time to invest in Jackson. by the time it's obvious, it's too late.

12:30PM, just remember what happened to Wayne Parish, the automobile repair shop owner who, when he defended himself against an attacker (as verified by camera footage). The trauma and legal fees, even though charges were EVENTUALLY dropped, surely ruined his life. And things have gotten worse in Jackson, since then.

You can't do business in a town where you aren't free to defend yourself or your business.

And 1:10, it sounds like Alta Woods needs a revolving fund, to quickly snap-up abandoned houses. Establishing a perimeter of contiguous fences (patrolled twice-daily) would be a great idea, too.

1:30 - No I don't, but I am looking forward to it.

2:07 - I never hear gunshots in the daytime and I am close enough to Raymond Road to hear any there. Occasionally, I hear them at night, but those are dumb*sses just firing their guns in the city off their front or back porch for no good reason.

Folks, there is no reason to lie and exaggerate about Jackson and its problems. Especially if you don't ever come here.

With all the crime surrounding these properties, all the Mayor has to do is call “cease fire” and the roaches will go back to their crevices.

Murder Capitol USA
Armed Robbery Capitol USA
Burglary Capitol USA
Rape Capitol USA
Crime Capitol USA

All while vacant buildings are dens for crackheads and also places to dump bodies

The share of Christians in the USA has dropped at around 1% per year for the past decade to the point where 1/3 of the country no longer claims it as a religion, not even nominally—but sure, a church closing is a uniquely Jackson problem.

DIY gentrification starter kit. It’s got to start somewhere.

12:35 - Byron is still a minister. He is with Venture Church in Hattiesburg. Our boys played football together from 2nd grade on. He’s good people.

Good luck with that sale.

12:38 for the win!

1:10….seriously how safe do you feel when your pumping gas near Alta Woods?…and yes I grew up near the area.

Hard Pass

Most of y'all are broke and can't afford it anyway.

Most of y'all on here are broke and cannot afford it, anyway.

The Chinese will buy it. They know you can't replace land, idiots. They don't even have to go to war with us if we keep this up. Try to look beyond the next five minutes. 100s of years to them isn't long. If they don't win now, their country will win later with property ownership/development/income.

My grandfathers property was in a bad area of a city when he died in 1946. It was sold for millions in 1968.

@9:26
Let them have it. China can pay the taxes too. Price gauge them just like the Japanese in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Radical city. Thanks Chokwe