Jackson Mayor John Horhn issued the following statement.
Prado Lofts represents a $50 million private development in the capital city, the first private investment of this scale since the Quarter Lofts were completed in 2021, and it sends a clear signal that Jackson’s future is bright as a place to live, work, and build. “This project shows that private partners see real value in Jackson and are willing to stand with this administration to move the city forward,” said Mayor John Horhn. “I am grateful for Mr. Prado’s confidence in the City of Jackson and in this administration’s work to reshape the climate for investment and development in Jackson. Through modernizing how the city does business and strengthening relationships with both public and private partners, my administration has been clear: Jackson is open for business and ready to welcome serious, long-term investments.” The Mayor looks forward to serving as keynote speaker at the Prado Lofts groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday, January 15, where he will join Mr. Prado, project partners, neighborhood stakeholders, and residents of Jackson. This project, and others that will follow, will help shape the next chapter of Jackson’s growth while expanding the tax base, and creating more economic development opportunities.
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I don’t think this is bad, of course any development in Jackson is welcomed, but I was in that area yesterday and whew… it’s not exactly the most desirable place to live. Fondren Taste is across the street from this proposed joint…
Got to give the guy credit for getting projects to completion. That being said, this one isn't going to be an easy lift because of the location and the natives.
I wish this project the best as well as the neighborhood.
Does this guy own some blighted homes in Jackson?
A lot of potential in this area. Still some good people there and good churches. Let’s hope he hits it out of the park!
Top Shelf!
Can someone remind me where this is supposed to be located? Is it off Meadowbrook?
To the doomsayers above, the area is not 'gone' - yet. There are plenty of nice parcels in and around this project. Yes, there are issues with some of the commercial properties in the area as well.
The idea of development, and revitalization, is to stop the blight by developing good stuff. Stop the growth of blight with the improvements. Plenty of examples of where this has worked, both here in Jackson and in plenty of other metropolitan areas around the country.
Is it a gamble? Damn right. But that's what successful developers do, and this individual has the desire and ability to help save this area, and others in Jackson. WIsh him the best.
What jackson needs is more low income housing. Section 8 housing
Jackson is beings scammed…again. Just ask yourself, who wants to invest in the metro center ($500,000) the old Jackson Mall ($550,000.000) and now this BS
Lemme rub my chin hairs when I say that….
Is it going to have running water?
Just a reminder, Prado was Phil Fisher's hand picked economic development guy for Clinton until Ricky Garrett and 3 other aldermen shot him down for reappointment. Sometimes we choke on our own foot out of spite.
No doubt there will be some tax related giveaways and encouragements for this project. Though speculative, a far better risk taking than investing another damn dollar in the failure that is Jackson's downtown.
Just shuffling dirt around to get ahead of the Arlington project in Fondren, which is green lit. doubt he even has lending in place.
Maybe he can also reopen the Fire Sale store a block away…
What car dealer will buy Top Golf site? That thing is gonna chapter on out
Hello neighbor.
Can you say Harbor Walk ?
I knew you could.
Hope this is a successful project. That being said, glad he’s the one investing the money for it and not me. Jackson - any part of it - is WAY too sketchy for me!
I don't believe he own Top Golf.
How long until we see an announcement from Mayor Senator Horhn regarding “Prado Zoo” in Jackson?
Definition: Gentrification
Gentrification is the process where wealthier, often younger and more educated, people move into historically lower-income urban neighborhoods, leading to real estate investment, new businesses, rising property values, and physical revitalization, but also cultural shifts and the displacement of original, lower-income residents and small businesses due to increased costs, fundamentally altering the neighborhood's character and social fabric. It's driven by demand for central city living, urban planning, and historical disinvestment, creating both economic growth and significant social challenges like affordability crises and community disruption.
Without drinkable water, and nice roads - this baby is stillborn.
I wonder how many palms were greased to get it this far?
That area is a fine line. Half a mile away you have a street full of million dollar houses and one mile the other way you have lower income houses. My kid attends MRA and a wealthy mra family lives near there and it’s great until you realize across the train tracks is not so nice. Taste does need to be shut down immediately though.
So businesses and restaurants are closing in far greater numbers than new ones are opening, who exactly are the tenants going to be and where are they going to work?
The biggest turnoff to living there is knowing that if you are victimized the Hinds county judiciary will give the criminal more support than the victim. On the bright side if you can somehow get the locals to elect productive leadership it’s a nice location close to I55 and Fondren.
@6:59
I’m not sure what you’re saying g is accurate. Mesa masa Derek Emerson had opened theee restaurants and a shop in the past month in NE Jackson,. Aplos guys opened Mexican restaurant in Highland village last month… Chaz is opening new restaurant in Belhaven in a few months new piano bar in fondren. It’s occurred to me that if your kids aren’t students at JA prep or a school like st Andrews then you really aren’t affiliated with these places or connected to the NE Jackson crowd. Some just say snobs but I can see both sides of it. My son graduated prep in 2016 so I had a better grasp then. I spend a lot of my time in Oxford recently anyways.
Meadowbrook close to where it intersects State. Former site of McRae's. Now the intersection of assholes driving amped up vehicles that disturb the peace of the area pretty much 24-7. At night they are joined by the DJ and outdoor speakers at Fondren "Taste." That USED TO BE a very quiet area.
Does not apply. Historically, this area of Jackson was a very livable area inhabited by people who respected their neighbors. It later became occupied by drug dealers and low income people who were raised to think that if they rent a house, they can do whatever the hell they want there.
@8:06 AM
Thanks. thats what I thought. I couldnt be bothered to search the JJ archives. I was recently looking at that area on Google Maps after seeing the old newspaper ads about the Meadowbrook 6 Cinema. I was born in the early 80s and have some memories of seeing that area, and all of Jackson tbh, when it was still really nice.
A DeLorean Time Machine to go back to 1985 would be really nice right now.
In order to realize the mayor's dream of "sending a clear signal that Jackson's future is bright as a place to live, work and build", the mayor and everyone else must first openly admit why Jackson needs to signal that speculation in the first place.
We can talk about symptoms of a problem until the turtles come home to roost. But until we admit, loudly and clearly, the underlying causes of the problem, we all will forever spin wheels. That includes this mayor and the next three mayors.
It will take more than a sketchy Power-Point from one shady developer to convince us to trust the mayor's promise that “... private partners see real value in Jackson and are willing to stand with this administration to move the city forward”.
Is it time for the new mayor to appoint a committee to study the problems, their reasons and present a plan to overcome. You betcha! Watch for it.
Mayor Horn: I'm announcing a plan for SoDoSoPa.
A new urban development that will transform the most rundown and dilapidated part of our town into a vibrant, quaint center of artisan shops, cafes, and local culture.
Next will be Prado One Lake.
Where will be machine gun nests be located?
It's going to reek of marijuana.
What Jackson needs is fewer low-income people. They need to be more spread out. In large concentrations, you get the Cabrini-Green effect - noise, mayhem, death, and blight.
Better go ahead and plan a high wall around it.
Maybe the residents could get a group discount on car-jacking insurance.
I couldnt be bothered to search the JJ archives.
We figured that out already. Sadly @8:06 rose to the bait.
Is it time for the new mayor to appoint a committee to study the problems ...
Horhn thinks his fellow former Senators are rubes and lap that study crap up.
sick burn @8:57
try to not cut yourself on that edge
@7:41 I wonder how many people (his dad included) told 30 something Donald Trump that he was a fool to buy the old hotel that he turned in the Trump Plaza. it was a dump, it was in the ghetto, etc.
Developer must believe water will NOT be given back to the idiots.
Morgan & Morgan should place the largest billboard possible near the site.
"Free The Land" was the slogan of Chokwe The Elder's plan for his vision of The Republic of New Afrika. https://www.google.com/search?q=chokwe+lumumba%2C+srs+plan+for+a+separate+african+nation+in+the+US&sca_esv=4e5fbd778f00bed4&source=hp&ei=hypdafGRBp6tmtkPlbm-4Ac&iflsig=AOw8s4IAAAAAaV04lz9xUa08iy-Vhj-oduo8iGL5LwFD&ved=0ahUKEwix8a_RnfeRAxWeliYFHZWcD3wQ4dUDCB8&uact=5&oq=chokwe+lumumba%2C+srs+plan+for+a+separate+african+nation+in+the+US&gs_lp=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-xLlkgcKMi41LTYuMjYuNqAHwokCsgcINS02LjI2Lja4B4KZAsIHBzEwLjI2LjTIB0GACAA&sclient=gws-wiz
After reading just a handful of these Jackson threads on this blog, you can have no doubt the movement is still alive and well.
Still sad to see Mississippians shoot themselves in the foot over and over and over again. Bad publicity for a state's capital city is bad publicity for the state. Yes, you'll still get industry seeking cheap labor with the high paying jobs staying at company headquarters. You will still lose far too many of our best and brightest young people as well.
KF, this goes against the narrative: https://www.uhaul.com/Articles/About/U-Haul-Growth-Index-Texas-Back-ON-Top-As-No-1-Growth-State-Of-2025-36556/
Wow
If you could just change out the residents-
I wouldn't live there if the rent was free.
At one time the Grove apts were new and popular and the next groundbreaking thing.
Love the negativity. All the nay-sayers stay on your trailer park couches. Leave the work of making MS livable to those brave and willing enough to take the risks. Funding? This guy travels far and wide promoting our state and our capital to out of state investors. You keep bad-mouthing our state - you think anybody outside of MS differentiates between Jackson and Madison? In the meantime, I'll try to find parking in Fondren with all of the tags from Rankin and Madison county coming to Walker's, The Capri, Louise's, Duling Hall and dozens of other attractions. You bunch of pansies - you are the ones who pick up and run, like the immigrants we see all over.
One reader is mad because I won't allow him to trash Pardo. Sorry, just because you see someone's name on here doesn't mean you have the right to trash him or her at will. It's not that hard to figure out. In this case, you attacked him personally, trashed his stores, commercials, and other ventures. Quite obvious you have a personal bone to pick with him. Well, take your personal grievances to another playground or stick to the subject of the post, which is this development.
Notice I've allowed criticism of the development since it is the subject of the post.
Could or Would Prado buy Fondren Taste and resolve that issue? All he’d have to do is raise prices so the current clientele cannot afford to go there anymore. Or he could just raze it and make the land paid parking.
Gabriel Prado is a man with a vision and a drive and will. I only have 1negative thing to say. This will likely be built with “fake stucco” (as opposed to resl stucco?) so I hope we’ve heard the last of “fake stucco” as some sort of slur.
BTW my relatives still living in Jackson have asbestos siding on their house. Why? It’s only dangerous in confined spaces.
As likely to have fake financing as fake stucco. Really an awful location. Job and income growth always preceed successful upper end development. The real Fondren needs to sue whoever stole their Fondren panache to attach it to the rank squalor of this area.
I have no interest in living in Jackson ever again, but I am happy to see this. Good for Prado.
Please…show me a million dollar house in Meadowbrook/Fondren.
11:24 As a native Jacksonian, I'd really like to agree with what you're saying here, because I WANT it to be true. HOWEVER, you must realize that the reality is more precisely spelled out by the posters at 8:14 thru 8:48. I hate it, but those are simply the facts! In all likelihood, there will be pockets of Jackson that will remain almost-livable for the next few years, but unless someone / some people with the authority to do so decide to implement substantive, FACT-based changes to the city, I'm predicting Jackson will be totally unlivable in the next decade. Unlike NY someone mentioned, there's a reason to be in NY, while there's no real reason to be here.
As I've said on here before, too many of Jackson's residents simply do not place any value on an orderly society, and without that, you can't have a city that continues to function.
Sorry to be the one to break it to you.
Prada’s developments thus far are very successful. He does his homework & I believe this area is prime for redevelopment. I’m just thankful that Jackson is finally attracting redevelopment. Most commenters on this site don’t live in Jackson, have never developed anything & probably can’t rub two nickels together.
@5:48 do you live under a rock or do you just not know? There is a neighborhood called Woodland Hills… and you should drive Old Canton and look to your left and your right.
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