Jackson Jambalaya

Can't blame 'em, can you? Don't know how the grifter-in-chief and his family are going to make a living when every business in Jackson is gone. I have every confidence that they'll figure out a way, though.

Also Jackson Eye Associates and Mississippi Retina Institute are moving to Madison. My doctor explained to me that the decision to move was based upon Jackson's failing infrastructure, e.g.,(water) and the growing homeless crisis in the area.

Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for them.

Mayor Chowke: "It's only a perception of another closed Jackson business. Right?"

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Shoulda seen that coming!

That building opened a little over ten years ago. They probably had a five year lease and renewed it once. Jackson, Clinton, Madison offices. It was a good business in a nice building.

Well so much for my appointment in August.

1:49: Did you actually read the post?

@2:04 I see what you did there.

The Legislature had its chance to show business owners it was committed to the State Capital, but, once again, it failed with abhorrent decision to let the regional water authority bill die in committee.

never heard of this business, but good for them. follow the money, and the money is from the customers in madison.

Touche'! Sorry, Kingfish. I failed to read the fine print. However, it's my understanding that Mississippi Retina is a separate business. They too are leaving at the same time.

Pappy just got that hand smacked ha

Let's see, we've had The Bold New City and The City With Soul. Time for a new one: The City With Nothing Left To Steal.

Medical practices have long been leaving Hinds Co. for more favorable legal venues...

That whole new Belhaven building is damn near gone now. When it opened it was full with premier medical taking up most suites. Now it’s a ghost town. Yogurt shop - gone, Trustmark - gone, JEA - gone, Retina - gone and most all of the medical clinics are gone except for one floor. If Baptist wouldn’t have taken it over it’d be gone too. You can’t walk in the place without getting harassed by bums on the corners.

they're leaving Clinton as well - but it ain't because of infrastructure. The Healthplex just wanted their space.

I’ve had to take elderly people to this location and it is very difficult to get in and out of.

Since the eye doctors usually see the elderly it was doomed to failure from the start.

Great doctors and staff….just bad design

The Baptist Hospital, Medical Arts Building & any number of clinics, restaurants and other businesses are thriving in the Belhaven area of Jackson. Fondren is better than ever. New developments and renovated buildings throughout central and north, northeast Jackson. So, y’all Rankin and Madison County folks tell us how crime and politics are doing in your community but we will tend to ours without your help.

I live in an exclusive relatively new sub division in Madison the city. A lot of doctors live out here, so this is not a surprise to me.The road from Gluckstadt to Madison already has many medical facilities open. I wonder where the municipal airport now in Rankin county will move in the future?

Good that they saw the light-

Can't blame them. Saw this new building when going to Primo's last week. Looks to be a great location, I'm sure they will thrive. Great doctors at JEA and MS Retina. Soon there will be no reason to go into Jackson.

Speaking about other businesses leaving the Jackson area, does anyone know the current status of Red Lobster opening back up if at all? I thought that I had seen the council woman for the area say that it was "temporarily" closed, but just wanted to see if there was any update.

It's incredibly unfortunate that the residents tolerate such horrific leadership that has driven any sane person or business from the city limits.

But, I don't see any million man march demanding these leaders be removed from office so, c'est la vie.

I go there three or four times a year. I have never been harassed by a bum there or at Kiefers.

1:47, business departure from Jackson is no financial problem for the Lumumbas. Just read Thursday's post, "Rukia and ACLU move to take over JXN water" for the source of their funding.

At least the doctors will have a shorter commute. Their patients...well...their patients should have voted for competent council members and mayor.

It's "Primos," as in the last name of an industrious family, not some dude name "Primo." Eye can't stand the misspelling. They really went down hill in ophthalmology with those charts, too. None of those words make sense!

@saltwaterpappy, MS Retina will be moving the same week. They are going to the same exact location as JEA.

saltwater pappy needs to understand this about the '' homeless crisis''

those street people are drug addicts, not homeless.

they are addicted to crack , fentanyl , and heroin.

there are shelters they can go to but they don't go because they are not allowed to take their drugs into the shelter with them.

@ 3:25 I do not live in Hinds, Rankin or Madison County and have friends who live in both Belhaven and The Fondren. It is not my business to question where people choose to live, but you must be living in a dream world. I am a patient at Mississippi Retina, and you can count me as one of many patients who appreciate this decision to relocate.

The building they're moving into has been under construction for several years. I think somewhere just before or just after the shut down. Every time I take my wife to Jackson Eye Associates the waiting room has been right at or just below capacity. I could totally see why they are moving into a 4 story building.

Jackson = Titanic

“ The Baptist Hospital, Medical Arts Building & any number of clinics, restaurants and other businesses are thriving in the Belhaven area of Jackson. Fondren is better than ever. New developments and renovated buildings throughout central and north, northeast Jackson. - April 8, 2024 at 3:25 PM”

This is some strong denial right here.

@ 4:20
Actually many of the JEA physicians live in NE Jackson near the clinic. Some behind JA and many in Eastover. Same with the anesthesia physicians they use and same applies to many physicians at sports medicine and capital ortho. You clearly don’t go to the tennis club or CC of Jackson if you think these people live in Madison. They’re a private school going and country clubbing group of people.

Will they change their name to Madison Eye Associates?

3:25. You can tell us how well Belhaven and Fondren are doing BUT if it wasn’t for the State aka Capital Police you wouldn’t be able to say that!!!

1:47, they will survive by getting control of the water system and the federal money coming to it.

I go to the JEA in Clinton, but if that facility closes, too, then I'll go to their new Madison facility where my cardiologist, dermatologist, ENT, and GI doctors have long since relocated to. My dentist is still in Clinton.

I have seen plenty of bums, winos and homeless people lurking around Baptist Hospital and doubt that they are the reason that JEA is moving. I also see those people elsewhere in the metro area. It's like a rat infestation. If you see one, you can sure there are many others that you don't see.

I'm confident there are other factors since doctors are using the business model for private practice that was so successful for the first one...Sports Medicine.

Some of the older buildings were leased with the owner not willing to make improvement or it would be either too costly or too disruptive to the practice to update/renovate to power new technologies.

Eye surgery isn't likely to result in someone needing ICU so for some specialties, a small surgical room of their own works.

Doctors are making a lot more money. And, thanks to the computer age can process patients like widgets on an assembly line.

And, some have become so specialized that one specialty can support multiple doctors with the same training. Doctors can now even specialize by specific disease or type of treatment when once upon a time a surgeon could do most any surgery.  

Medicine as a business means that if you fall and break your arm and your leg, you have to see two doctors even though both were trained to set both.

Also, they overbook deliberately these days so there is no minutes of opportunity to charge money that is missed because one patient took less time and one took more time. I realized this in waiting room a while back when the people on either side had my same appointment time with the same physician in the practice.

Professions were intended to serve the public not be profit centers of business.

It is no a surprise that the US spends more on health care per person than the rest of the world but is falling in life expectancy,infant mortality,and quality of both primary and acute care and heart attack mortality. Even Columbia and Costa Rico beat us in a couple of categories and Japan in about all of them!

We have the worship of business and money to thank for quickly moving towards being a " failed state".

Hint: Not all that glitters is gold. And, that lawyer that got millions for his client may have charged a larger fee percentage for your slam dunk case or another could have gotten more for you in the negotiations or court room. That doctor who looked at your broken finger, might not have noticed that your breathing was labored or the odd mole on your arm just above it.

I wish MS Urology and the imaging place would move their entire operation away from Marshall St.

Salty; The Eye Clinic and Retina place are conjoined just as are the optometrists who have a separate LLC for selling glasses, lenses and trendy frames.

PS: There was no fine print.

April 9, 2024 at 10:08 AM

Yeah. Me too.

4:47--I was just repeating what my doctor told me. Too many homeless and vagrants hang out in the garage and vestibule/back entrance when the nurses come to work early in the morning.

Everyone there will leave. It’s only a matter of time until they get police patrol and clean water.

I give Kroger one more water problem and they will be out.

Kroger won't be leaving. The store on I-55 is the highest grossing store in the chain.