Jackson Jambalaya

They failed to include the bombed out parking lot in the sketches.

Is there evidence Contour has actually completed any of their projects? A few of them I actually couldn't find the given address. On others what is there doesn't look like anything you'd want to brag about.

Apparently there's too much hotel space downtown now.

Neither one of "The American Spinning Mill" or "The Northland City Center" has even been started yet as it looks like via Google Earth's latest street views.

My guess is this is a set-up" for another money-laundering type of fraud. Our city leaders BETTER BE DOING SOME REAL DUE DILIGENCE or they could be looking at some future prison life, IMO!

This project never happens without enormous matching funds from some governmental entity. Which means, it never happens. No capitalist would 100% fund this.

Attended a meeting at the Convention Complex this week. Street lights in the area were not working, roads were torn up (from waterline repairs, I guess) and the shrubs and planters in front of the complex were overgrown with weeds. It looked like people have given up on the place.

Another in a long line of Jackson schemes that will not and cannot pan out on its own, but allows the crooks to wet their beaks.

Their next project may be in a prison

If there is a demand for a new hotel and there is money to be made private developers would be lining up to build it using their own money. Truth is the convention center is rarely used except for local smaller events. There are no companies doing conventions in Jackson. If I’m wrong please correct me. This appears to be planned to have the city pay for it and the developers make their money on the front end. Hopefully this scheme is part of what the FBI was investigating when the search warrants were served on the DA and city hall.

But is it Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive? Remember that Chowke demands that he only be surrounded by people of the same culture. Right?

I can’t imagine any legitimate investors being interested in this location. They aren’t going to approve anything that is submitted by whites. The last hotel Lumbas cronies built, closed shop within 24 months. It was so bad, Sleep inn would renew the franchise rights.

Last year, I toured Europe. We traveled through numerous World War 2 bomb sites. Had we not been told, we would not have known that. They gathered together and repaired those sites. When are the heathens currently destroying the “Capitol city” going to make attempts to repair the city’s blight and destruction? I am serious when I ask this, Why would anyone go to Jackson other than to a hospital, and they are moving to Madison county as quickly as they can build new clinics and hospitals.

When the indictments are unsealed this will be shut down—

Oops...They did it again!

Thanks Harvey and you dopes in Jackson. I made mine.

- C.H. Johnson







AND he's still duping unsuspecting cities in America.

If a hotel next to the convention center makes sense, why didn't developers of the Westin build it there instead where it is now?

what is the elected district attorney of hinds county doing running a real estate side hustle ???????

and several other side hustles as well....cigars, bars and daiquiris come to mind.

please, someone explain this to my cotton- chopping peasant self.

It is nice knowing that safe, pristine, downtown Jackson has hotel, after hotel, after hotel, and needs to build another downtown hotel. I am sure local (when I say local, I don’t mean Jackson people) people will line up to finance this.

KF - "inquiring minds want to know"?? Yes, I know you are playing the game, but lets get to it.

Why did the Mayor (uhh, excuse me, the City) change from a RFP to a RFQ at the last minute? That's what inquiring minds want to know - and maybe what inquiring bodies have been looking into recently.

Our DA as a hotel developer? Imagine that. What background, experience, or maybe 'deal-making-influence-groups' does our DA bring to this table. Yes, I understand that he has had a group of 'investors' wanting to meet with the city to talk about how to do work with the city, but does that fit somehow into a RFP ---oh, forgive me --- does that somehow fit into a RFQ where details are not required?

Yes, inquiring minds want to know. Hopefully soon we will find out.

They have let that place go. The wood around the windows is literally rotting. The last time we were forced to hold an event there they had a single bathroom open for men and women, the roof was leaking, and it was hot. Not to mention multiple vehicles were broken into. Thankfully they have moved the rest of our events to the trademart.

How much for The Big Guy (Jackson’s version)?

Maybe Jackson can debunk the theory that you can’t spend your way out of debt. It has been tried thousands of times and has never worked, but maybe this time will be different with this mayor and city council.

6:20

No harm in trying, especially when it’s not your money to begin with.

I ask this question all the time, it either doesn't get posted, or no one answers it. Can anyone name one (1) thing that Democrats built in MS that is profitable, maintained properly and no grift was involved in the process? I'll wait....

On the other hand, lets look at all of the things they have been given and look at the condition of those things.

I actually did not know it was the job of the district attorney to facilitate the expansion of overpriced, unneeded monuments in a city hemorraging money and losing an average of 5 people a day.

Grifters will grift. Right Jody, Chowke?

10:14 if what you say is true about rotting wood around the windows, why was a commercial building allowed to use wood around windows? That is not up to commercial code in any municipality.

Wow. I had no idea the Marriott and Westin were frequently sold out of rooms.

Marriott closed for quite some time. JSU is converting the building to dorms for upper level students. Legislature approved it in last session.

If anyone is curious about why hotel "deals" that seem to make no financial sense, often involving people who have no hotel experience or the financial gravitas to do such deals without OPM, and often in seemingly "odd" areas, pop up frequently, do some research into "E"/"treaty investment" visas, such as E2 and EB5. No, they aren't "scams," but the jobs creation aspect of them is almost always pure bullshit. Maybe other states could offer such "visas" to Mississippi folks as a way to get their money out of here.

July 11, 2024 at 9:38 AM
It's a visa scam for Indians because they routinely get shut down trying any other visa.

All I want to know is whether a grand jury has been convened, whether the charges will be under the RICO statute, and when we can expect the indictments.

"It's a visa scam for Indians because they routinely get shut down trying any other visa."

Please explain how it is a "scam" by an applicant from any treaty country to simply meet the requirements set out, money-wise. Or, if the "investment" project's failure to produce the jobs the promoter claimed makes it a "scam," please explain how other projects funded through domestic sources and also claiming ridiculous jobs-creation and economic impact numbers are NOT "scams."

For any still reading along, any direct "scam-ish" aspect of these things is not by the visa-seeking "investors" plunking down money according to rules written by domestic drafters, it would be by the (domestic) developers/promoters promising ridiculous jobs-creation numbers and tertiary "economic impact" claims. As a corollary, it is typical that the bigger the numbers involved, the bigger amount of bullshit about jobs and economic impact. Hint: compare a smaller middlin'-tier chain hotel in a location that won't likely be able to keep its occupancy rate at a level commensurate with the "investment" expended with oh, say, a data center, battery plant, a wood pellet mill, solar panel factory, beef plant, etc., etc., etc.

Now, if anyone wants to claim that the drafters of the rules and various folks who make serious money in the "investment opportunities" industry and their friends all know what they are doing, and doing it to keep the money flowing, you'd get no argument from me. It may be "abusive" but it isn't a "scam." And yes, the applicants know what they are doing, too. It is not a "scam" to make an investment for reasons other than direct monetary ROI. Mike Bloomberg just made a $1 billion investment in Johns Hopkins Med School and plainly did not expect a penny of direct ROI (I'll leave the dissection/disputing of his motives to others).