You don't have to wait that long. Here are a few and I emphasize A FEW of Johnson's accomplishments:
-Mayor Johnson brought forth a resolution to issue up to $7 million in Tax Increment Financing for the District at Eastover project. This 23-acre development will contain over 640,000 square feet of retail, restaurant, office, hotel and residential uses, including a state-of-the-art multi-screen theater and grocer.
--Helped to get Virginia College reopened and moved to North Jackson with 6,000,000 dollars grant funding.
--Murder rate dropped under his tenure as did other violent crimes.
--Fortification Street development and repavement costing 10 million dollars.
-Helped to open the Metro 24 Bowling Center Arcade & Grill, located near JSU's campus
--Mayor Johnson to break ground on the 1.5 million gallon elevated water tank at the intersection of Mill Street and Fortification Street in West Jackson. Since 1997, the City has invested a quarter of a billion dollars into water and sewer system upgrades. The project is expected to be completed in June 2014.
--The City will also award State Street BBQ located at 906 State Street a Storefront Improvement Grant (SIG) and University Place Bar and Grill located on the Jackson State University campus at 1100 JR Lynch Street a $7,500 SIG
--Thalia Mara Hall Announces $5.5 Million Renovation Plans under Johnson which will increase tourism.
--The Jackson Convention Center, whom Johnson helped to create, just released its Annual Report for 2012. The Complex had a $27.4 million economic impact on the city with at annual attendance of 141,464 people for 295 event days last year.
--Over the last several years the City's awarded about $900,000 in small business grants, creating or retaining about 900 jobs. Jackson's small business grant programs were also recognized as a "Best Practice" by the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
All good things that I already know about.
All of them moved at a snales pace.
#1)
The Eastover project was STATE LED Project. The property that Mississippi School for the Blind sits on is STATE PROPERTY just like Memorial. The Mayor would have been a fool not to give those tax breaks. :lol:
#2) Same thing with the tax breaks. Virginia College moved from I-55 South frontage road across from the Advantages apartments because they needed more space. The space they moved into was the old Brookshires Grocery store on Ridgewood and Beasley that bolted from Jackson 5 years ago.
#3) Murder rate dropped. Crime rate dropped............. Right.
Tell that to them mofos living in South Jackson that can't even leave their homes to go to work because they will be cleaned out. Tell that to the 77 year old man on Alta Vista in South Jackson they found yesterday shot in the head....DEAD. Won't get into the other 4 or 5 murders in the last 2 weeks.
#4)Fortification Street has been in the works since 2009. Bout time that shat started.
Thalia Mara has been slated for years to be renovated. They been arguing that for as long as Fortification has been being discussed. It took them that long to get all them fools on the council to actually show up to vote for it at one time.
#5)Bowling ally, BBq pit, and those other handful of small business............ GREAT. For those small businesses. No impact on the GREATER JACKSON AREA as for development.
#6) Water treatment............. 7 years in the making since the last major Ice storm. Was you here then. The entire city was out of water for weeks when the thaw happened. Shat was bursting everywhere and they still are. We playing catchup.
Now in the 8 years it took Jackson to do this little bit of work, the surrounding counties have brought in 50 times that in morter and brick type of developments and they are up and running. IF you still live here, I know you know what I'm talking about. While they was building, we was saying "forget them white folks" and "bye Bye" if you don't like it.
Heck, when that development group came in and started rebuilding the old IRON HORSE GRILL on Gallitin with plans to add an additional 30,000 of space to it, MRS. STOKES refused to vote on giving them development money saying "
I would not put .10 cent into that pile of bricks." Luckly they didn't need her vote. :lol:
But thank you for getting on track and at least discussing my question about what have they done.
