Jackson Jambalaya

It won't open until all of the necessary palms have been greased. Right?

"Funding is required for other improvements"

Any way to find out how much was raised from years of ticket sales by promotors for the Thalia Mara Restoration Fee or whatever it was called.

OBC all over again.

A little more than $1 million.

a retired engineering executive with over 43 years' experience, Emad currently focuses on philanthropy in advancing issues related to poverty, humanitarian relief, education, sustainability, peace, security and economic development. Emad focuses on marginalized communities and communities of color with special emphasis on the African American community in the USA and Palestine". Mr Al Turk must be out of retirement, good grief.

Hizzoner said "unforeseen circumstances will delay the opening a short period of time."

Then how did literally all of us forsee this happening?

it might open at the end of January 2026

Elevators are part of Phase 2? I guess ticket sales to those of us with wheelchair bound family members are going to wait for Phase 2 as well.

He and several of the contractors working on the emergency water line repairs were laid off this past Friday. Says the city spent 18 million dollars to fix the ONE water line leak at I-55 and Northside Dr.
In comparison, and realizing the value of money over the years needs to be considered, the entire I-55 rebuild project from Meadowbrook Rd. to Canton Mart Rd. In 1988-1990 was a 31 million dollar project.

January 2026

So the carpet is 40 years old?

Not an unforseen circumstance:

Complicated repairs and remediation to a poorly maintained and neglected older building with malfunctioning HVAC systems causing early stage microbial growth cost more and take longer than planned.

Actual unforseen circumstance:

The rest of the world finds out some of the details of the Mayor of Jackson alleged travels in kushy style to an out of state cigar bar to smoke cigars and whatnot with a few associates thanks to a federal criminal indictment of the mayor!

The details include that allegedly the Mayor of Jackson was smoking cigars at a cabaret called Tootsie’s in Miami. Not just any nude cabaret but Tootsie's is the largest strip club in the world featuring over 300 sexy full nude entertainers daily.

Note: The fact that the Mayor of Jackson was criminally indicted by the federales while still in office may not be an unforseen circumstance.

Criminal Pardonee Bennie Thompson is smiling this morning. He got his while Lumumba holds the bag.

I am shocked that this delay occurred in this mayors term of office'!!!!!

This has to be incorrect because not only is the mayor working on this, but his sister is also working on it!!!!!!!

Can anyone confirm the maximum height above the stage ? If it's 50 feet or more then the fire curtain probably is required by firecode.

Even if the fire curtain isn't required by firecode the city might want to run the idea of operating without the fire curtain (already removed according to the Mayor's latest update) while waiting to procure and install the replacement.

It will never reopen

Shocked!!!! Shocked I tell ya!!!!! :facepalm:

Top off the fuel tanks in the dozers, boys. Lumumba has given us a full dance card.

It's the same old situation here in Jackson. Laziness on every level. Same reason that dictated that all offices close today. Not a trace of moisture, ice, or whatnot anywhere, and the city is closed up tighter than a drum. They're all fucking worthless.

Some of you apparently too young to remember but Thalia Mara Hall has never gotten the funding it needed for good maintenance. Many of the buildings in this state are used until they are too expensive to repair. It goes hand in hand with corruption and who benefits by new construction or relocation.

Yarber tried to do something about it. Implemented the $5 per ticket surcharge for improvements, repairs, and maintenance. The arts community screamed bloody murder so it was cut to $3. How's that working out for them now?

8:28, you are completely right. There is laziness at every level. One very visible manifestation of that, is the disgrace at the corner of East Pascagoula and South Jefferson. We've been tracking that spot, for years. Heading out of Downtown, toward 55, just beyond the little tunnel, it's on your left. For years, someone's idea of "maintenance", seems to have been the pouring of toxic materials, upon the ground. That's IT. ...no cutting of weeds (the bleached skeletons of which persist, years since the ground was rendered incapable of supporting plant life), no picking up litter/debris. I'm looking at a Google street view, right now, from '24. Last month, someone sent us update photos: same landscape of ugliness and poison and DEATH - a nice parting vision, for those leaving Jackson.

Kingfish, the current cast of characters could be handed TRILLIONS, for maintaining Thalia Mara, and, as the little girl darkly stated, in 'Aliens', "It won't make any difference."

Yarber never did shit that was not in his own best interest. Kingfish, with regularity, takes up for that scoundrel.

The post you shit-canned was intended to illustrate that the venue will NEVER open unless and until acts of interest to black-folk are on the marquee. Until then, it's viewed as a white-folk venue.

If what 9:30 says is true and the big bad "relocation plan mafia members' have simply refused to fund the TM maintenance, then how does 9:30 explain the mayors "I don't know" when asked what happened to the funds generated by ten year ticket surcharges?

Educated and art enjoying residents are scrambling like rats to sell whatever property they have in the city limits of Jackson.

@January 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM Fire curtain is very definitely required by fire code. Theater curtains have fire retardant which has an expiration date. No doubt the old curtains were well beyond their life expectancy. Curtains can cost anywhere from $40,000-120,000 depending on many factors including pleats, sizing, and material.

I believe what you almost said, is that 'Demolition by Neglect' has long been used to hasten the decay and obsolescence of buildings, in order that government functionaries might steer contracts for construction of those buildings' replacements, TO THEIR CRONIES.

The OLD cronyism assumed rakeoff percentages in the single digits, and also assumed that work performed would give reasonably good value for the money. Today's cronyism seems to feature more rakeoff digits and less realized value (with some projects yielding what Russians have, for generations, wearily described as "Antiproduct").