Thursday, September 15, 2022

Judge Closes 2 Jackson Hotels

 Jackson won a round in the fight against blight this week as  Jackson Municipal Court Judge Jeff Reynolds shut down two dilapidated hotels Tuesday. 

Judge Reynolds closed the Regency Hotel on Greymunt Street.  The court order states mold is pervasive throughout the hotel while the roof is in a state of disrepair and in danger of collapsing.  The plumbing is in a serious state of disrepair as well.  These conditions existed while the hotel has tenants.  .  

Baka, LLC owns the Regency.  Ketan Patel is the managing member of the LLC.  The defendant was Zhu Juan Ping. No one appeared in court for the Regency. The Court gave the hotel 72 hours to close and eject the tenants.  

The Oyo Hotel on I-55 frontage Road by Northside Drive suffered the same fate.  The site has been the scene of numerous shootings and is a known drug haven.  JPD busted the managers for drug dealing out of the hotel several years ago. Earlier post

Judge Reynolds found the defendant, Bharat Parchal, to be in contempt of court as he closed the hotel. He said the hotel was missing fire extinguishers, elevator had not worked for years, six rooms were not secure, and there was excessive debris in rooms.  The building did not meet the electrical code and is a major fire hazard.  He ordered Parchal to serve 30 days in jail for contempt of court.  Judge Clay had ordered him to repair the property over a month ago.  Parchal did not comply so the Court enforced the order.  

Judge Reynolds gave the Oyo 72 hours to remove all tenants from the premises.  



36 comments:

Anonymous said...

Funny how “the rule of law” is expected to be followed by everyone in Jackson…errr..except for the criminals and the Mayor.

Anonymous said...

Thank you, judge. That's two steps in the right direction.

Anonymous said...

if people pay to stay there...what is this, mother russia? arent' we pro business?

more abandoned property. thanks, libtard judges.

Anonymous said...

Yet crickets on your boy Phil and his boy protector Shad. You’re a sellout, KF.

Anonymous said...

Their plumbing is not working correctly. Please tell me one place in Jackson Ms. where the plumbing is working correctly.

Kingfish said...

yeah right. Believe it or not, I've been drinking through a fire hose on this water crisis. I'm going to get caught up on the DHS thing within the next few days but as I've told you before, I'm not playing following the leader and just republishing MT's stuff except for when they break something no one else has. In this case its court documents so I will read and post about them. Just as I did when Pigott was fired. I told you the same thing, not that you listened because you obviously didn't, The tv stations are all just reprinting their stories this week when their own reporters could read the same court filings and do their own versions.

I'm one man, they are several. you want water or DHS? You can't have both at the same time here.

Anonymous said...

KF has no credible source on the DHS matter. If he did, he’d be all over it. He jumped in Shadrack’s camp early on and appears to think it’s safer to just avoid the subject for the most part at this time, unless he’s trying to make a big deal out of someone selling their house or some minuscule fact like that. The recent reporting is absolutely not in Phil’s favor and Shad can’t avoid being linked to the “whistleblower” anymore. The water deal is low hanging fruit, and Anna Wolfe will run circles around KF on that topic in time too.

Anonymous said...

Life goes on In the City With Soul-

Anonymous said...

Closing these drug den hotels is a step in the right direction for Jackson. Hopefully, the properties can be completely re-developed. In the case of the Regency maybe the State of MS can purchase the property. Essentially, this eliminates two large drug hide outs that are located in what should be ‘nice’ areas of Jackson.

Anonymous said...

Both hotels need bulldozer therapy.

Anonymous said...

I hope the Luv tub/ Sam’s lounge extended stay is closed next.

Anonymous said...

So the buildings will close to business, but will remain standing and physically open for vagrants, at least until the next cold snap when they will be lit on fire; a la Ramada at 80 and Ellis.

Anonymous said...

Next up Best Value Inn Jackson across from Canton Mart Road.

Anonymous said...

This is big. Those hotels are a real problem.

Where will all the people go?

Anonymous said...

The state has been attempting to 'purchase' the Regency for a while now, ever since Cowboy Andy got the legislature to give him some money to do so. But they have had problems getting the deal done with the owner - whoever that actually may be. Bet that this move by 'da Judge was a step toward that process. Then, despite some of the comments here, the property will be demolished and it will not be a blighted abandoned property.

Now, the one located on Northside? Yeah, it probably will be left to the vagrants just like the office building on Briarwood and the hotels in South Jackson on Ellis and 80. There, the City of Jackson is in charge, and they won't get around to doing anything for another dozen years or so.

Anonymous said...

Didn't he also order the Select 7 closed a while back? That one never shut down.

Anonymous said...

Where the Loose Ladies going to go now??

Harry Callahan said...

Now go after places like Rainbow and Star Motels. A motel that charges by the hour on Hwy 80?? Gee wonder what clienteles they are catering to?

Anonymous said...

If I pay $29.95 a night for a hotel room, it’s because I’m paying $29.95 a night for a reason. Fuck out of private business.

Anonymous said...

all I need is a BILLION dollars to clean up the Hotels in JAX!!!

That'sMisterDeplorableToYou said...

Brings back memories of the old Admiral Benbow hotel in Jackson. My mom would take us kids to Jackson just before school started every year to buy clothes and we would always stay at the Benbow. Big ol' swimming pool and a restaurant that made the best club sandwiches. No shootings, no drugs. About the worst thing that happened was one of the patrons would get a little tipsy out at the pool.

https://misspreservation.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/file8479.jpg

We've really lost something when we lost Jackson. I feel sorry in a way for younger people who have known nothing else and think this is normal.

Anonymous said...

In the 3 weeks since Tater was forced to take over the water situation, COJ suddenly tended to long neglected little things like mowing the corn fields at the High St and Fortification ramps, half-ass filling some potholes, and making a show of installing a few new water meter in Belhaven. Antar can run but he can’t hide.

Anonymous said...

Thanks judge. Please looks at some of the other hotels that need to be shut down. As an added shut down Walk Ons bistro in Ridgeland.

Anonymous said...

I despise Antar Lumumba as much or more than the governor does. When he said “I don’t read the city’s daily reports and neither should you,” I was hoping he had the fortitude to go with it all the way.

Anonymous said...

12:44 "Yet crickets on your boy Phil and his boy protector Shad. You’re a sellout, KF." Is this your only source for anything considered news on Phil? Has the new firm even had time to review what went on prior to their taking over? I would imagine it will be some time before that hits the fan.

Anonymous said...

For those of you hatin' on KF, it's real simple.

Don't read JJ.

He's fried me and failed to post many of my responses over the years but he is the only TRUE source of info I believe.

Anonymous said...

Where will Chowke's dope boys ply their trade?

Anonymous said...

This just in: Socrates Garret bids $4.35 to tear down both hotels for the city.

Anonymous said...

With these properties closing in a few days there’s going to be a lot of druggies and hookers on the move over the weekend

Anonymous said...

Cheap hotels have been around for a long time but the issue is from what I was told by a source close to the owners of the foreign owned hotels is that Katrina changed the landscape in more ways than you could imagine. When the refugees came North there were no places for them to live or stay temporarily so a deal was cut to give the hotel owners government housing subsidies to house them. That allowed a new group come in and purchase the older hotels while the old owners were out raising funds to build new franchises hotels from investors from their home country who would come here on an expedited Visa. The members of the families were charged $500,000 each for their investments and after a short period would blend in. As I said that’s what I was told by someone close to a hotel owner. He told me it was faster and cheaper to do this than to build apartment complexes in a short period of time.

Anonymous said...

Damn! This sucks! How is a gimpy freakshow like me supposed to get a nut now?

EFGAlterEgo said...

4:26 PM
Hope you whore mongers get caught.

Anonymous said...

What about that big empty run down Episcopal church property off High Street and NS Street? If there's not vagrants in there I dont know. And cant we cart these panhandlers out to the city limits somewhere?

Anonymous said...

Ten days ago I submitted a rejected-post regarding The Cartel that exists in Madison County. My post was in answer to a thread presented here by Kingfish regarding law violations. Kingfish got his drawers in a wad assuming it was racist. Now we have two more examples of businesses owned and operated by the same Cartel-larger-cult violating rights legally granted to the public.

These people could not care less about your health, safety or comfort. All they want is for you to pull into the hotel, convenience store or eatery. Do so at your own risk.

What we (collectively) need to realize is we have more to be concerned about than Jackson water, garbage and crime and...well...If you read this blog, that's all we need to worry about.

Anonymous said...

One way to help start the turn around of Jackson is to have all the properties that have been "donated" to churches dealt with. All of these abandoned eyesores where people are dwelling need to be completely torn down and all debris removed. Plant grass seed and a few trees and let it go. If this occurred all over Jackson where there are abandoned houses and building things would slowly start to get better. Get rid of the structures used for illegal activities.

Anonymous said...

Owners of these dilapidated buildings, Call Kamala Harris, she will fill these hotels up. Once it is full, in lieu of rent, put the illegal immigrants remodeling and fixing deficiencies. After fixing it up, Biden will pay you to retain these illegals.



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