i read about this a longgggg time ago. ( like 2+ years probably )
i live at the rez and was excited about it. thinking wow .. it would be like current projects ( harbour walk , lost rabbit, galleria... )
i always wonderred what happened to it...
and now flowood is growing liek MAD!!
This project would be great for downtown Jackson and Jackson in general. A sailing friend of mine proposed the project and is still pushing it. It will work. Barry, this is what I was speaking of on our last trip.
Unfortunately, the Harbor Walk development is banko. They should have let the Dock run its course- it probably would have paid for the buildings by now. As for the people with deposits- good question.
It's an interesting project but it has an uphill battle. If you've been to the Mays Lake part of LeFluers Bluff park imagine all of that under water along with several thousand acres of bottomland hardwood wetlands. It's not exactly going in the direction of the current environmental trends. Basically the proposal is to dig a channel through the wetland that is the size of the Mississippi river and use it as a lake in between 100-year floods. Obviously that would require moving a LOT of dirt but that's not a problem because the guy pushing the project is in the dirt-moving business so he'd make a fortune. On the up side it would create a LOT of waterfront property which is also good for the guy pushing the project because he already owns a lot of that property and has his house, which is magnificent by the way, on that property. With all the conflicts of interest involved it's difficult to sort the reality from the sales pitch.
I have heard that it has been an uphill battle...but from an environmental perspective I think it has gotten "clearance." at least that what that website says.
Also, I have never known a developement project where the guy trying to make it happen didn't stand to profit...
He's in the oil business not the dirt moving business.
Yes, he owns a tiny percentage of the land that would become waterfront. My parents house would also become waterfront. And so would that Mexican restaurant on Lakeland!
I sure hope the Lakes Plan and Airport Parkway projects don't screw eachother up!!!!
He started in the oil business but that's not all he's involved in by any means. Jackson needs some help alright but the lakes project isn't going to solve their problems. If city leadership isn't ready to get serious about crime they will have to build a fence around the two lakes to make it a successful development.
whoa! who said anything about crime? Sure it is one of jackson's problems, but it is not the only one...and I agree that this project will not solve our crime problem... but it might generate some revenue and good will that will convince people that jackson is a place worth saving.
as far as our leadership's ability to solve the crime problem...that is an entirely different issue that doesn't belong on a cruiser thread!
I just thought this might interest some of us who enjoy the booteeful river...
He started in the oil business but that's not all he's involved in by any means. Jackson needs some help alright but the lakes project isn't going to solve their problems. If city leadership isn't ready to get serious about crime they will have to build a fence around the two lakes to make it a successful development.
Nice thing is that the fence can be chain link since it ain't in "Madison The City" where everything has to be brick! State money to pay for a bricked in exit for I55?
Jackson's issues are a lot more complicated than the lakes or even "city leadership getting serious about crime." Personally I think our current city leadership is very serious about crime, but he's on both sides of the law right now.
