It’s said Jackson’s Thalia Mara Hall hasn’t got a bad seat in the house. But seats that are in bad shape? Those are about as plentiful as the number of days that make up the Broadway run of the “Phantom of the Opera.” Since its opening in 1968 as the Jackson Municipal Auditorium, the City-owned [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: March 12,2012
Tags: Belhaven University, Ben Allen, Commercial Real Estate, County Line Road, Duckworth Realty, Highland Colony, I-220, I-55, LeFleur Bluff Tower, Matt Forsyth, Meadowbrook Office Park, Parkway Properties, Ted Duckworth
Jackson’s Central Business District office market is starting 2012 much as it did 2011 with slightly more than a quarter of available space empty. That’s the good news. The CBD wouldn’t be keeping its current occupancy levels had expected lease renewals not come through, commercial real estate professionals say. Parkway Properties’ 120-building fourth-quarter office market [...] [...]
David Watkins wants to be clear: Farish Street is on schedule for the major tenants of its first block to open late this year. The project has not stalled for lack of money, as was reported in the Clarion-Ledger last week. Watkins, who is developing the historic district into a Beale Street-like mix of clubs [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: April 17,2011
Tags: Alan Jackson, Ben Allen, Chicago, Christopher Mims, Diana Ross, Jeff Foxworthy, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr., Reba McEntire, Vince Gill, Warren Strain
City of Jackson officials have received three proposals from firms interested in performing planning and design studies for a possible downtown arena, and Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr.’s spokesperson says interviews are being set up with the hopes of a selection being made soon. “We hope to have that happen in short order,” Christopher Mims wrote [...] [...]
History enthusiasts are relieved and pleased by a state Legislature appropriation last week of $38 million to build a new Museum of Mississippi History and a civil rights museum on state land just north of the William F. Winter Archives and History Building, 200 North Street. But supporters of downtown development are trading high-fives, as [...] [...]
A steering committee created to plan and promote an arena for downtown Jackson has disbanded to make way for Mayor Harvey Johnson to lead the charge. Where the effort goes from here is now up to the mayor and City Hall, said Ben Allen, director of Downtown Jackson Partners, a public-private entity that works to [...] [...]
Ben Allen ventured onto friendly turf a few Tuesdays ago to try to re-energize a campaign for a multi-use arena in downtown Jackson. Supporters made up most of the crowd of 200 or so people who turned out for the “Arena Extravaganza” sponsored by the organization Allen heads, Downtown Jackson Partners, and the Jackson Chamber [...] [...]
Downtown Jackson Partners, Chamber: Study will address feasibility of a downtown area Ben Allen kept the focus at his “Arena Rollout Extravaganza” held last Tuesday on the unity of purpose that it’s going to take to erect an $80-million-plus entertainment palace downtown. The event was all about the arena, even to the point that Allen, [...] [...]
JACKSON- MBJ-TV gets a behind-the-scenes look at a new multi-use small business incubator that is setting up shop in downtown Jackson. Tenants looking for a low rent, destination location for their first start up are already lining up to get in. [...]
JACKSON — The economy will be the focus of the Else School of Management Fall Forum 2009, scheduled Oct. 6 at 8 a.m. in the Leggett Special Events Center on the Millsaps College campus. Ben Allen, president of Downtown Jackson Partners; Thomas J. Cunningham, vice president and associate director of research for the Federal Reserve [...] [...]
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