Business, economics, and what is coming next in Jackson.
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What is being built, what is proposed, and what is stuck: projects, permits, incentives, and the votes that move them.
The agreement runs 25 years with automatic renewals, sets Amazon's peak-day draw at 82 percent of what all of Ridgeland uses, routes 1.8 million gallons a day of cooling wastewater into Jackson's West Bank interceptor, pays Amazon back from future developers, and contains no clause about who comes first in a shortage.
The city's 183-day moratorium took effect in mid-August and runs out in February. Council members are still debating what the replacement rules should say, while a $23 million budget hole keeps the revenue question alive.
Two supervisors wanted a new land appraisal and a clawback on a $10 conveyance clause before the county borrowed $48 million. They lost 3-2, and the developer who brought Topgolf to Ridgeland now builds the county's signature venue.
The council paused data center construction for 183 days in July, then voted in August to explore sites anyway. The clock runs out in January, and the city's zoning code still has no definition for a data center.
The city transferred operations of the McNair Davis Planetarium to the Mississippi Museum of Art in July. Reopening is expected in about six months, once digital screens go in.
The city received close to $4 million from HUD three years ago to replace the Eudora Welty Library. No location has been picked, and the drawdown clock is running.
A week after the council voted to explore data center sites, records show the city's hired consultant cautioned that the industry's defining input, water, is the one most directly tied to Jackson's vulnerabilities.
The six-month moratorium on data centers goes into force today, banning them at most Jackson locations. On Tuesday the council voted 5-2 to urge the administration to find places to build them anyway.
A New York brokerage arranged the sale of the 214,000-square-foot Robinson Road center at a 9 percent cap rate and 83 percent occupancy. The price tells you what investors think of west Jackson retail risk.
The council set an August 25 hearing on tax-increment financing for a Vieux Carre expansion that adds 84 apartments and a medical office building. The TIF only pays out if the project generates new property taxes.
Arlington Development's 234-unit Class A project, its fourth in Jackson, is betting on pent-up demand for high-end rentals in a city where the median rent sits near $1,100.
Prado Vista will put a county-owned conference center, a 250-room luxury hotel, and four restaurants on 77 acres off I-55. The developer is Gabriel Prado, the same man asking to build an off-grid AI campus while Jackson debates banning data centers.
The 3-1 vote authorizes urban renewal bonds for a 1,800-person venue near Sunnybrook Road. A private developer plans a 250-room hotel next door. Critics say taxpayers are on the hook if revenue falls short.
Con Edison cut power to thousands and reduced voltage for 400,000 customers during the heat wave, a preview of what a grid without slack looks like. Jackson votes on its data center rules July 14. The two stories are the same story.
A rezoning brawl over 230 acres in northwest Jackson has the protests and the deadline. But a separate developer's off-grid gas plant — the project state regulators just declined to touch — may set the precedent that lasts.
A quiet office building on Ridgewood Road is becoming luxury lofts. The developer has done this before, and the math is the reason.
An essay: for twenty years Jackson couldn't give away a downtown lot — and when investors finally arrived with a private jet and a yacht, they turned out to be the FBI.
In barely a year, New Jersey tech founder Kumar Bhavanasi has quietly bought five of downtown's most important buildings — and he's planning to spend more than $100 million bringing them back to life.
A New Jersey firm wants to rezone 190 acres for what looks like a data center, just as the City Council weighs a moratorium — part of a boom that's made Mississippi one of the country's hottest markets.