Jackson Jambalaya

NOBODY IS COMING TO SAVE THAT PART OF TOWN! IT'S OVER AND HAS BEEN FOR 30 YEARS!!!!!!! Reinvest in parts of the city worth saving. This is not rocket science.

Calling PradoCon

Don’t they need to replace about a million dollars worth of burned up fire truck first?

This redevelopment scheme will make so much money the city will be buying lots of new firetrucks! /s

What a disaster the Horhn administration is headed towards. Horhn is proving to not be any better than Lumumba.

I'm sure the developers will be pouring in to build up an area where they need bulletproof vehicles just to get to the job site.

down a rathole. Really disappointed in John

Focus needs to be on Crime, Water, Sewer and Roads. The rest needs to be closed or given, to non-profits or the state. We can not afford anything else as we do not have tax base.

9:42 - Have you ever heard of insurance?

A whole lot of wishful thinking going on. It was looking rough and dangerous when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s. Now it looks like a prawn sqatter town in Johannesburg from the Sci-Fi movie District 9

Move the zoo to Farish Street. They have been trying to revive both for the last 30 years

Wasting money.

Geeze, move the damn thing you stubborn @$$£$. People do not want to go to that part of town. You are being stupid, and/or you are wasting money to engage in virtue signaling.

They won't even pay zoo water bill.

You guys and your negativity are getting old. The zoo is a dump, but there's a ton of really nice land that could be developed into something sensible.

This is exactly what that part of town needs. The park has proven that if you give people a reason to come back they will. Over ten million steps tracked on the disc golf app alone for Livingston park last year. The city has been doing a phenomenal job upkeeping the park.

They want to slash $3M from public works. But pump money into zoo.

When land goes to zero and tax rebates are offered and people can actually make money….can work. That’s how Nissan wound up in canton - no taxes state and federal - data centers (whatever they are) could supppant the zoo and the zoo could be shit down or moved. Plenty of roads and access to airport and train…I with them luck

They could have moved the zoo, after which money would have flooded into the city, travelers would have exited to visit the zoo on Lakeland, and animals would still be alive. This is more foolishness, and a great disappointment to read what is just more problems for the zoo animals and more of a zoo nobody will visit. The animals should be moved to a sanctuary where they can live out what is left of their life. The zoo wasn't even accredited for ages. Hattiesburg has a great zoo where they love the animals and take care of them, so move some of the animals there, and some to a sanctuary. I agree, Jackson is no better. What a disappointment.

Horhn has now memorialized his complete failure as a leader and confirmed his incompetence and his aversion to addressing real problems. The key words in this are "developmental and historic credits". If govt largesse was not involved, this would never happen. Always a hand out.

The zoo needs to be demolished.

Horhn hasn't learned from history and is intent on repeating it. The Zoo is never coming back.

Crime and Roads. Sewer and Water are no longer Jackson's purview.

Not being negative, but WTF?

Too late, too far gone and nobody cares about that area or the Zoo.

This about dignity. These folks don’t need yall sububarn racist KKKs telling them to clean up they neighborhoods! They need the gubmint clean up they hood!

Take yall hoods off for just a minute and thank!

RFP published-DBE is awarded contract-Non-DBE does the work and DBE contractor collects a check for being a certain demographic. Rinse, wash, repeat.

The animals at the zoo do not deserve this life. They deserve somewhere else. Jackson sadly is a lost cause and has been for 25 years. Like most democrat run cities thru out our failing nation.

Shout out to Sister R!

Can Mr Cigar Bar DA get a piece of this action too?

Can any JJ readers actually read? This is not about the zoo, its about development of the area. Raw land, the park, and hopefully the golf course. That's a lot of land that could be something else.

It almost seems like crime is surging in COJ again recently, after I had some glimmer of hope.
If Horhn cant see that funds need to be primarily spent on infrastructure and basic needs, then me thinks he is not much better that his predecessor.
I mean he is not on a Yacht with the Feds, but the bar is pretty low.

Let's be real. Any development in and/or around the zoo is never going to work. The truth is, the people with expendable income(both black and white) aren't taking themselves and their dollars around the zoo to spend it. Government handouts to develop an area that the primary source of income is government handouts. It just simply doesn't add up. If private dollars aren't being spent, it's not going to work, period. The area is a dump, and dangerous and no one with any sense(cents) isn't patronizing whatever you put there. I don't care if you build the coolest and best retail area the United States has ever seen in that area, the majority of the metro isn't going to go because they fear for their safety and their vehicle's front end.

@1:32 spot on.

a prison

What 1:32 said, plus it’s all about location. That location was fine in the 50s and 60s, but by the 70s everything moved towards the interstate. If you tear down Smith Wills and locate the zoo there, you have a fabulous museum & tourism district. State park, ag museum, children’s museum, little league ball fields, zoo.

There you go again. Calling us the Klan, the k k k, hood wearers …every time that people don’t agree with you that the ghetto is freakin’ awesome you go and pull out the racism klan card. You want a park in that neighborhood? That’s fine and good. But the zoo? A state wide attraction? No. No matter how great you make it, no matter how nice the park or the disc golf or the trails, you will never get the masses to go there. People who aren’t from the hood don’t want to go to the hood. If they continue pushing to keep the zoo there, then it shows that leadership and the neighborhood want a FUBU Zoo. We call that reverse racism. And if you don’t know it, reverse racism is racism.

Mayor sit your ass down! It's a rap for the zoo. I really thought you had a little bit of sense but I see you don't. By the way, you hit me with a bag of candy at the parade.

You talking about the zoo at the zoo or the zoo at City Hall?

Yes I completely agree