District of Eastover Development (Jackson, Madison: low income, apartments, buying)

[grasshopper_60619]

Does anyone knows how would the District of Eastover development projects would affect the people and environment of Jackson and Mississippi?

The District at Eastover

[GrandviewGloria]

....because that's exactly what those buildings look like to me, too.

The renderings of the proposed structures say "Housing Project, Chicago, 1962". The intended "feel", I presume, is 'Midcentury Modern' (...an outgrowth, or 'subset', of International Style Modern, codified as basically a sort of Talmud for architects who went into the field because they were good at math - even though they didn't give a flip about aesthetics. For reasons unknowable, these architects had decided against careers as accountants, engineers, physicists, or doctors.) Midcentury Modern is an absolute dream for copycats and rules-first ideologues (people who are preoccupied with ideas and ideals, rather than realities).

Jackson already has several generations of Modernist office developments. One big one, nearly-new, went on the auction block fairly recently: sold for Pennies-on-the-Dollar, too. Every time one of those big piles o' carp gets built, it is hailed as "the new thing".... so trendy! ... so sophisticated! ... so minimalist! ... so CEREBRAL!" And if our Decorator had not steered us in the opposite direction when we started building and buying, I'd be SO BROKE! That's because more people want pretty than want bleak.

As for the effects upon the community and the environment? Not much: the site was hardly pristine wilderness. A few trees and a lot of grass are gone. But that's the same as happens when a Wal-Mart goes in somewhere. And, like I said, several ugly Modernist developments go up, in and around Jacktown, every generation. Nothing really different, here, except that there will be APARTMENTS, touted as "upscale". But then, virtually all apartments are touted as being "upscale" or "luxury", or thereabouts.

Wherever they bought those photos, though... Honestly... Looks like they spent at least fifteen minutes picking-out those pics.

[golden eagles fan]

Originally Posted by grasshopper_60619

Does anyone knows how would the District of Eastover development projects would affect the people and environment of Jackson and Mississippi?

The District at Eastover

It will bring more shopping and dining, as well as a movie theater, back to Jackson and help recapture some of the revenue this city has lost out on for decades, as such establishments moved out to Madison and Rankin counties.

[zblanton1]

Originally Posted by GrandviewGloria

....because that's exactly what those buildings look like to me, too.

The renderings of the proposed structures say "Housing Project, Chicago, 1962". The intended "feel", I presume, is 'Midcentury Modern' (...an outgrowth, or 'subset', of International Style Modern, codified as basically a sort of Talmud for architects who went into the field because they were good at math - even though they didn't give a flip about aesthetics. For reasons unknowable, these architects had decided against careers as accountants, engineers, physicists, or doctors.) Midcentury Modern is an absolute dream for copycats and rules-first ideologues (people who are preoccupied with ideas and ideals, rather than realities).

Jackson already has several generations of Modernist office developments. One big one, nearly-new, went on the auction block fairly recently: sold for Pennies-on-the-Dollar, too. Every time one of those big piles o' carp gets built, it is hailed as "the new thing".... so trendy! ... so sophisticated! ... so minimalist! ... so CEREBRAL!" And if our Decorator had not steered us in the opposite direction when we started building and buying, I'd be SO BROKE! That's because more people want pretty than want bleak.

As for the effects upon the community and the environment? Not much: the site was hardly pristine wilderness. A few trees and a lot of grass are gone. But that's the same as happens when a Wal-Mart goes in somewhere. And, like I said, several ugly Modernist developments go up, in and around Jacktown, every generation. Nothing really different, here, except that there will be APARTMENTS, touted as "upscale". But then, virtually all apartments are touted as being "upscale" or "luxury", or thereabouts.

Wherever they bought those photos, though... Honestly... Looks like they spent at least fifteen minutes picking-out those pics.

Well as long as these upscale apartments do not accept HUD ... Which I am almost certain they will not!

Accepting HUD is the ONLY way these apartments can go south, because HUD brings in low income people that lay around, whine about having no job, yet they won't go out and look for one when there are jobs they could be doing, and they sit there and get a government paycheck for doing NOTHING ... Oh yeah and not to mention they bring with them blight, crime, and the ability to lower surrounding property values.

No way are the people of Leftover, Eastover, & Fondren gonna let that happen!

[madison2013]

Originally Posted by GrandviewGloria

....because that's exactly what those buildings look like to me, too.

The renderings of the proposed structures say "Housing Project, Chicago, 1962". The intended "feel", I presume, is 'Midcentury Modern' (...an outgrowth, or 'subset', of International Style Modern, codified as basically a sort of Talmud for architects who went into the field because they were good at math - even though they didn't give a flip about aesthetics. For reasons unknowable, these architects had decided against careers as accountants, engineers, physicists, or doctors.) Midcentury Modern is an absolute dream for copycats and rules-first ideologues (people who are preoccupied with ideas and ideals, rather than realities).

Jackson already has several generations of Modernist office developments. One big one, nearly-new, went on the auction block fairly recently: sold for Pennies-on-the-Dollar, too. Every time one of those big piles o' carp gets built, it is hailed as "the new thing".... so trendy! ... so sophisticated! ... so minimalist! ... so CEREBRAL!" And if our Decorator had not steered us in the opposite direction when we started building and buying, I'd be SO BROKE! That's because more people want pretty than want bleak.

As for the effects upon the community and the environment? Not much: the site was hardly pristine wilderness. A few trees and a lot of grass are gone. But that's the same as happens when a Wal-Mart goes in somewhere. And, like I said, several ugly Modernist developments go up, in and around Jacktown, every generation. Nothing really different, here, except that there will be APARTMENTS, touted as "upscale". But then, virtually all apartments are touted as being "upscale" or "luxury", or thereabouts.

Wherever they bought those photos, though... Honestly... Looks like they spent at least fifteen minutes picking-out those pics.

You don't live in Mississippi and you are not funny.