Jackson Jambalaya

Didn't they already try to do a development around Farish Street that never got off the ground? I want to say they were talking about doing something big down there 10 years ago or so.... Didn't the developers say they couldn't deal with the city?

Que "The Villas at Kenny's" from South Park

The bums will take it over before you play a pickle ball game! Downtown of all places! it would be better to have it the Children's Museum area where it can be controlled.

“The Yacht at Biscayne Boulevard.”

Where did all the money go for the “first phase” of the Farish Street redevelopment project go? This is another boondoggle. Nothing like doubling down on stupid.

Lots of palm grease in those photos. Right Chowke?

Another "wag the dog" pipe dream to distract from Chowke's pending corruption charges. Right?

I have a genuine question, but I also already know the answer: Did adults come up with the idea for this development? I know they couldn’t have, because no serious-minded person could ever believe a concept like this would ever be viable in Jackson, MS. Some cities, yes, but NOT Jackson.

While I’m all about new development, I expect them to at least make sense. This one doesn’t. Not only is it situated in front of a convention center that loses money like a fire hose loses water, it’s, at the very least, taking up valuable parking area for the few events the convention center attracts. Plus, where will the convention center hotel be built? Oooops, too soon Chok?

Seriously, like the people who begged the City not to build the convention center in the first place (they were 100% right), I’m going on record stating this is a horrible boondoggle that will become nothing more than a crime-infested sleeping area. Hide and watch!

Is the FBI the prime mover and shaker in this development?

Sorry KF - trying to find a laughing out loud emoji big enough to satisfy a response, but for some reason my font sizes won't cover the page appropriately.
Those of us in the radical new city all wait to see this latest fantasy of Lumumba-land develops. Or actually, doesn't.

Has anybody noticed the improvement this will make to the now-famous Cigar Bar territory? Certainly can't be a coincidence.

Where did all the money go for the “first phase” of the Farish Street redevelopment project go?

When it comes to City projects the last few years aren't we always asking where did all the money go?

3:39 You are correct as that was the plan in early 2001 & never happened. Until a new mayor is in office & crime drops No One with good business sense would invest in the COJ!

Wonder what Dale got paid to render those beauties. The cost to build will be low considering those are popup circus pavilions.

Well, if World Government can use Orwell as a template for its worldshaping, then Jackson-Kush is entitled to use Southpark as inspiration in shaping its 'PapaChok BabyChok RukiChok Convention Center and Ancillary Delusional Activities Complex'.

The entire downtown Jackson strategy has been an unmitigated disaster for the past 30 years. The amount of money wasted putting lipstick on that pig is staggering. No objective analysis can demonstrate otherwise.

The blank field is where he wants to put Costco and Top Golf.

Dale probably hasn’t been paid.

@5:09 Jackson is using Animal Farm as a blueprint.

Unlike the "Farish Street Entertainment District" the city jivers may actually have access to some money to make this happen. At least phase one. It's not much when you consider food trucks (transient at best), movable pavillions (tents), pickleball courts (still parking spaces) and green areas (vacant lots). But when it's finished people will wonder where the money went.

Bwahahahahahahaha!

It will be stripped clean 2 weeks after it opens-

Let's just say there's a reason Trustmark stopped rennovating their building.

First, why not spend the money improving infrastructure, fighting crime, controlling vagrancy, and maintaining existing attractions to see if that will get more people back downtown? Crazy...right?

Some developers from "up north" will be meeting with Chowke on a yacht on the Rez to discuss this project.

Wow! Those 200 people that live downtown are going to have plenty to do!!!

7:03. Let’s just say Trustmark never invests in Jackson at all. We’ve lost a lot of businesses but if there’s any bank that needs to leave it’s Trustmark.

Use to be this stuff was done with cardboard and glue. Now you can get Ai to put lipstick on a pig.

This PR stunt reeks of desperation and failure. What city places a skate park and pickle ball courts near a convention center? Skateboarding and pickleball won't attract many conventions. Loud skateboard music and conventions won’t work. I guess being sensible is too much to ask of individuals being investigated for bribery because they allegedly instructed city employees to moved deadlines for cash payments on a boat.

A food truck vendor park for the 200 people that live downtown that's definitely going to bring in the dollars and keep the convention center caterers working.

Remember this woke fantasy from the mayor and his woke cronies courtesy of the Jackson Free Press: https://m.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2018/jul/11/reimagining-9-acres-downtown/

This is not an urban solution to anything. It is actually a suburban-scaled scheme filled with low-or no-density development. Most architects can churn out renderings like this in a few days.

Let me get this jive right, economic development is skating, pickleball and food trucks. Have they passed a drug test?

"It's a reasonable question, but I'm not going to respond at this time."

I don't see a section for the homeless tent city or the free needle exchange for Jokewe's "most radical city."

I genuinely feel for the folks really trying to make Jackson a better place. But, getting rid of the grifters, propped up by white liberal Democrats (those Malcom x warned us about, living behind gates or in the burbs) is just a law of nature requirement. “IT’S THE CRIME STUPID” should be the motto of everyone that actually cares more about the well-being of Jackson than power and $$$.

Wait, directly north? That’s where all the parking is. Why not directly west of the center, the green space next to Cathead? Those guys throw a great party.

I would totally go there. Downtown is one of the safest and most well patrolled areas of metro. I'm just skeptical that this administration can pull it off.

can we get all the signal lights working in jacktown before taking on this?

If you tried to play pickelball on these courts after the sun goes down, you probably won't have a "Pulse" for much longer

The only thing this work of fiction is missing is a community vegetable garden where the proletariat celebrate communal agricultural success with great socialist fervor.

This would look great in Brandon and people would actually go to it.

@January 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM - But, the key question is: why go downtown vs the similar attractions in the 'burbs? Why was the Slab demoed if it was in such demand? I can see greenspace, parking, and food trucks to support state and federal court attendees, but how much revenue is pickelball and skateboarding going to bring-in? Certainly not enough to cover maintenance.

Crime and chaos are tactics used by Democrat grifters to keep anyone from moving into cities like Jackson that will vote Democrats out of office. Grifter Democrats can always rely on that old white Liberal Democrat that Malcom X warned us about, to keep providing their progress stalling hate while writing about Yellow Dog Democrats, segregation, state flags, and all of the other decades all non-issues that keeps the sheep from voting grifter the crime and chaos loving Democrats out of office.

8:52, Brandon actually needs a downtown first.

God help us, this is some serious misguided and irrational use of funds that are desperately needed for basic needs in Jackson.
Folks like Choke don't care about anything but showboating and bragging, though.
He knows this will be a useless flop, he wants the the attention. Harvard will probably want him to come teach them how to be such an effective leader.

Clinton is actively building a pickleball facility, has skate park plans, and there will be food trucks at the same park. Someone is copying someone else's paper.

Jackson got a lot of money years ago to develop the area and have to pay it back if they do not do something soon

Put this near a school and neighborhood.

One hears that the yacht will be scooning up Town Creek, via the lock system installed during the fabulously-successful One Lake Project. That yacht's usual ambit runs between the many throbbing casinos rimming the lake, ferrying world glitterati drawn to that resort area, an international hotspot which has earned the moniker, 'The Water Moccasin Riviera'.

This should have been the funny of the day. Jackson is done. Move our capital to a civilized city and be done with it.

You mean outpost. fixed it for you.

January 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Trustmark is the last bank HQd in Jackson. You dumbasses would run out any business. And are. Actively.

BB Kings was supposed open Farish Street. Ironically, read about it in the Jackson Free Press archives/articles. Bonus: search Chockwe Sr.

Jackson can't even fix the traffic light at Northside and McWillie and it's been out for two or three weeks.

Apparently, given yesterday's news, you can't even mail a check in Jackson - or stop that check from being cashed by the criminal who washed it and wrote-in their own name - even when you have the bank teller on the phone, and are yelling, "Don't cash that check!".

NOTHING, in Jackson, works, anymore.

There are hardly any places to eat downtown and the new parking system is an absolute travesty. Let’s just keep spending more money on things that are not needed and that won’t be used - why couldn’t they just fix the parking lot in front of the convention center and leave well enough alone? Another case of poor judgment and wasteful spending.