EconomyCity Attorney Drew Martin told the council Oct. 27 a draft is days away. The sales tax exemption MDA advertises for certified data centers covers the equipment and building materials a project would buy.
October 29, 2026 · 5 min read
DevelopmentThe council tabled the surplus-property option Oct. 6 after Ward 1’s Ashby Foote questioned the price. A state lawmaker pressed the deal Monday, and the land sits in the Pearl’s floodplain.
October 28, 2026 · 3 min read
DevelopmentCommissioners authorized a predevelopment deal with a Carlyle-led team on Oct. 26. The only cost figures on the record cover design, not construction, and the airport got one proposal.
October 27, 2026 · 3 min read
EconomyVisit Jackson’s 2024 annual report put its tourism tax collections at $3.5 million, flat year over year. The Nov. 3 ballot asks voters to raise both rates that feed that line.
October 26, 2026 · 4 min read
BusinessVero Fiber finished buying TEC on April 14. Six months later, docket 2026-UA-63 to move TEC of Jackson’s assets and customers to Vero Fiber ABS is still open on the PSC’s docket.
October 25, 2026 · 3 min read
DevelopmentMDEQ records show draft air permit modifications for Amazon’s Canton and Ridgeland data centers opened for comment Aug. 17 and Aug. 24. No hearing is posted for either.
October 24, 2026 · 4 min read
EconomyThe city announced a full $3.1 million match in four installments. Mississippi Home Corporation’s published manual caps supportive services at $300,000 and rental assistance at $500,000 per applicant.
October 23, 2026 · 3 min read
DevelopmentThe 754-megawatt plant Entergy says data centers help pay for cleared its last major state environmental hurdle on Oct. 14, and a pretreatment draft went to the facility a day later.
October 22, 2026 · 3 min read
EconomyHenifin’s plan would have a new authority borrow $120.8 million to buy Jackson’s water and sewer systems, saving about $1.4 million a year. Horhn wants a hearing instead.
October 21, 2026 · 4 min read
DevelopmentThe five-story building is the largest single capital commitment on the UMMC campus in years. Private donors have pledged $100 million, the state added $100 million, and $8.5 million in federal money pays for site work.
October 20, 2026 · 4 min read
Real EstateThe Wire searched the Hinds County index for Trustmark Bank, Blue Owl, Owl and RCAF Acquisition Trust. No branch conveyance appears. The purchase agreement says the buyer may take title through entities it designates.
October 19, 2026 · 4 min read
Real EstateStirling’s own case study dates the Westland Plaza closing to October 2025, and the deal nearly collapsed. A year later, no deed, permit, or lease filing names the new owner.
October 18, 2026 · 4 min read
Real EstateThe purchase agreement says the 34 branch addresses and per-property prices sit on an exhibit the bank withheld. Six weeks after closing, the Hinds County index shows no deed from Trustmark Bank to any buyer.
October 17, 2026 · 4 min read
DevelopmentArlington’s own press release is dated April 29 and puts first deliveries in fall 2027. It states no project cost, and no rents or floor plans are published anywhere yet.
October 16, 2026 · 3 min read
DevelopmentPrado Lofts is under construction and the Dolce hotel has started dirt work. The Prado Conservatory, rezoned in August, is still on paper, and the land is held by a company that is not PraCon.
October 15, 2026 · 4 min read
DevelopmentThe council packet lists a surplus-land option near the Pearl River, three federal grant applications worth $2.17 million, and the airport grant to restore Chicago service. The casino item is the one that stalled.
October 14, 2026 · 3 min read
EconomyJackson voters decide Nov. 3 whether to raise the prepared-food tax to 1.5% and the lodging tax to 2%, with the money dedicated to Visit Jackson. The resolution and the certified ballot language are now on the record.
October 13, 2026 · 4 min read
EconomyThe council adopted the per-ton rubbish fee on Oct. 6, resolving a question the Wire’s own coverage left open. The same week, the city said the Byram site still cannot take full loads.
October 12, 2026 · 3 min read
DevelopmentMDEQ posted its formal response to public comments on Entergy’s 754-megawatt Ridgeland plant, the document the Permit Board will use to decide Tuesday. A newly posted transcript also shows Ridgeland’s zoning board voted no before aldermen overrode it.
October 11, 2026 · 4 min read
EconomyThe state’s Workforce Housing Program will fund only new single-family construction, capped at $4 million per project. Hinds County is the largest of six qualifying areas, and no local government has yet signed on.
October 10, 2026 · 3 min read
DevelopmentThe city posted RFQs for asphalt milling, paving materials, and housing rehab on Oct. 8, the same week the council amended engineering contracts for a resurfacing program that began in 2023.
October 9, 2026 · 3 min read
DevelopmentTwo March appraisals valued the city’s riverfront tract at $110,000 and $112,000, based on comparable sales of $1,566 and $3,500 an acre. The developer’s own consultant says comparable land costs up to $1 million an acre to make buildable.
October 8, 2026 · 5 min read
BusinessThe council ratified a 12-month Cityworks renewal on Oct. 6, the same week bids closed on an ERP system whose own addendum names Cityworks as a system to be integrated or replaced. The new software is not scheduled to start until Oct. 1, 2027.
October 7, 2026 · 4 min read
DevelopmentThe Capitol Green Connector between the GM&O Depot and Hal & Mal’s is expected to finish construction this month, an $8 million bridge over Lakeland Drive broke ground in August, and planners want the trail to run from Jackson State to LeFleur’s Bluff. The identified money so far is roughly $10 million, not counting the connector. A May 2026 study counted $14.2 billion in private investment along Atlanta’s BeltLine.
October 6, 2026 · 9 min read
DevelopmentMDEQ’s air division has concluded the 754-megawatt Traceview plant can meet every state and federal standard, and the decision now rests with a nine-member board that meets the second Tuesday of each month. The draft permit’s own fine print says the permit expires if construction does not begin within 18 months.
October 6, 2026 · 5 min read
DevelopmentThe Jackson Redevelopment Authority is taking proposals through Oct. 30 at 4 p.m. on JRA-owned parcels in the 200 and 300 blocks of North Farish Street. Its own property list prices the largest of them at $440,320, and the whole Farish Street inventory at roughly $1.9 million.
October 5, 2026 · 4 min read
DevelopmentThe Oct. 6 agenda asks the council to accept a federal Small Community Air Service Development grant for Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers and to schedule a public hearing on the Downtown Jackson Business Improvement District’s district plan. Both are money decisions with named payers.
October 4, 2026 · 4 min read
DevelopmentMississippi Today has described the five-story Cancer Center and Research Institute as located on State Street across from the medical center, with construction starting in late October and an opening about four years out. No plan the Wire could find includes retail. Here is everything on the record about the building, the money, and the land.
October 4, 2026 · 8 min read
DevelopmentThe state imploded the 50-year-old Department of Public Safety headquarters at I-55 and Woodrow Wilson Avenue on Sunday morning. It has announced no plan for the land. Nearby, UMMC’s $250 million cancer center is about to break ground, and a 60,000-seat stadium’s future is tied to it.
October 4, 2026 · 5 min read
EconomyMidtown Partners won a three-year Community Economic Development award to expand three existing enterprises in Jackson. The money started Sept. 30, and the only public notice came from Rep. Bennie Thompson’s office.
October 3, 2026 · 4 min read
EconomyPJ Waldrop took over the Mississippi Development Authority on Oct. 1 after Bill Cork’s retirement, inheriting 12 divisions and roughly $400 million in annual spending. The metro’s biggest projects, from Amazon’s Madison County campuses to Jackson’s own incentive pipeline, run through the agency he now leads.
October 2, 2026 · 4 min read
DevelopmentThe 183-day moratorium the council passed July 14 runs out in about 16 weeks, and the city attorney told the council in August there is no new draft ready. A 230-acre rezoning request in northwest Jackson is waiting on it.
October 1, 2026 · 5 min read
BusinessThe city’s own RFP says its legacy permitting system is hard to maintain, unintegrated with GIS, and still accepts paper. It also says a formal project budget has not been established, and that vendors’ cost proposals will set it.
September 30, 2026 · 5 min read
BusinessThe city’s second lease-purchase solicitation in two months lists 36 vehicles and machines, from a $385,570 street sweeper to a $1,452 bucket, and projects a Nov. 20 funding date. It also says the city expects to be non-bank qualified, which narrows who can bid.
September 29, 2026 · 4 min read
BusinessThe city’s RFP 94654-092926 asks lenders for an interest rate on a lease-purchase financing, with bids due Sept. 29. The solicitation names no asset, no principal amount, and no term, and it lands three weeks after the council adopted a 2026-2027 budget that never mentions the borrowing.
September 27, 2026 · 5 min read
BusinessThe city posted RFP 94654-092926 on Sept. 17 asking banks for an interest rate on lease-purchase financing. Bids close Sept. 29. The solicitation names no asset, no principal amount, and no term.
September 26, 2026 · 4 min read
EconomyAbsentee voting opened Sept. 21 with a Jackson-only question on the November ballot: a tourism tax to fund the Convention and Visitors Bureau. The county’s own meeting record shows the money is already being counted in the budget cycle.
September 25, 2026 · 4 min read
EconomyThe council’s new weight-based fee schedule reads like an increase. Run the arithmetic on the old volume-based rate and a pickup load of debris gets cheaper. Mississippi already has the lowest landfill fees in the country, and the last cell filled past its permit in 2024 with no replacement ready, which kept the gate shut for the better part of two years.
September 25, 2026 · 6 min read
DevelopmentA Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business won the sealed-bid contract on Sept. 21, with work starting Sept. 30. The 18-month job is fully funded and drew just three bidders.
September 24, 2026 · 4 min read
EconomyThe Jackson metro added 3,500 jobs in a year, the strongest August on the BLS series. On the same day the state announced an $8.5 million federal grant to build short-term training pathways, the metro’s labor force is still smaller than it was in February.
September 23, 2026 · 4 min read
BusinessA Sept. 3 filing shows the Jackson-based bank sold 34 branches to Blue Owl Real Estate Capital and leased them back for 15 years, then swapped $629.9 million of low-yield securities for higher-yielding ones to offset the gain. The bank says no branch will close.
September 22, 2026 · 4 min read
DevelopmentThe county’s new criminal justice facility is running into supply delays, WJTV reported Monday, the same day supervisors held a special called meeting and one day before a work session. The millage that pays for it was adopted Sept. 10.
September 21, 2026 · 3 min read
BusinessThe Sept. 22 agenda carries two amendments to Verizon Wireless antenna agreements at city tower sites on Riverside Drive and West Northside Drive, extending terms and swapping equipment on land Jackson owns. The city has not published what the extensions are worth.
September 21, 2026 · 3 min read
BusinessThe Sept. 22 council agenda carries a MetLife renewal for city workers, a new cafeteria-plan administrator, a solid waste fee ordinance and a quitclaim sale of three parcels to Wil-Mat Investments. None of it has been reported.
September 20, 2026 · 4 min read
BusinessA resolution on Tuesday’s agenda would let the city contract with Municipal Intercept Company to collect unpaid debts under a state setoff law, a step that puts a private firm between residents and money the city says they owe.
September 19, 2026 · 4 min read
BusinessAn ordinance introduced on the Sept. 22 council agenda would amend Section 106-148 of the city code, the section that sets what it costs to dump at Jackson’s solid waste facility. The same agenda carries a resolution to hire an outside firm to chase unpaid debts.
September 18, 2026 · 4 min read
DevelopmentThe 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.
September 18, 2026 · 8 min read
EconomySupervisors closed an $8 million gap on Sept. 10 with a tax increase that generates about $2.3 million a year. The new criminal justice facility is the single largest reason the county says it needs the money.
September 15, 2026 · 3 min read
DevelopmentThe 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.
September 12, 2026 · 4 min read
DevelopmentTwo 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.
September 9, 2026 · 4 min read
DevelopmentThe 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.
August 29, 2026 · 2 min read
EconomyThe City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to ask voters for a 0.5% prepared-food tax increase and a 1% lodging tax increase. The money would go to Visit Jackson, and the tax has not moved since the bureau was founded in 1983.
August 27, 2026 · 2 min read
EconomyInterim manager Ted Henifin filed the utility’s financial management plan with the federal court Friday, projecting a 10% increase in spring 2027 and further hikes in 2028 and 2029.
August 23, 2026 · 3 min read
DevelopmentThe 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.
August 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Real EstateArlington’s $59 million, 234-unit project on Mitchell Avenue is set to deliver in fall 2027 at an average rent near $2,100 a month, about twice the city’s median. Its own planning blueprint calls for something different.
August 15, 2026 · 3 min read
DevelopmentPrado 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.
July 28, 2026 · 4 min read
DevelopmentThe 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.
July 24, 2026 · 3 min read