The Natchez Democrat

this is a terrible terrible thing…..i’m sick with knowing there will be another casino and that this beautiful piece of property will be taken up
with a parking garage and metal casino building.  I may be one of a few that feel this way……but i don’t like it…we should have somehow 
allowed this casino to relocate to the “other site” where tons of money was spent firming up that area in preparation for a casino building.
I’m sure it’s not that easy but come on everybody is this really what we wanted down along this wonderful riverbank a second casino ….
how did i miss this voting session..

As always – money is the first thing in people’s mind and they always come before “natural beauty”. They would preserve natural beauty only if it would bring them more money..

I look at it like this…the 2 casinos will take up togther about a mile of Adams Counties beautiful river front, and look how good and big Tunica is… I think its worth it. Sorry!

Somehow in their infinite wisdom, the legislature decided years ago that casinos in MS would be required to locate on the waterfront.  Nuff said, get over it.

Truly a damn shame to lose our riverfront to 2 welfare check cashing facilities.  Congrats Natchez, you screwed up yet again.  We really appreciate it.  Glad I don’t live downtown.  

A single rinkie-dink casino was a mistake from the start.  Had Natchez worked to get more casinos to locate here in the beginning, Natchez would be a booming town right now. Unemployment numbers would be down, there would be very few empty stores in downtown, the housing market would be strong and maybe, just maybe, the city wouldn’t be in such financial straights.  I know the casino business has fallen off a lot with the general financial crisis but, I still think Natchez would have been better off.  As far as the beauty of the bluffs, I hate that it is being altered but, I expect, the Natchez residents of the late 1800 and early 1900s hated to see Natchez under the hill deteriorate to nothing.

you will hardly know that it is there if you never go.  whenever nashville allows frivolous waste of land and absurd tax dollar rip-offs for maintaining edifices, i don’t go near them.  they’re building a city-owned billion dollar new convention center but i’ve never in over 60 years attended a convention but i’ll pay for others to do so, at this late point in life.
 
i wish i had a sidewalk and a fenced off or walled off backyard to keep thugs and dogs off my property..  that kind of use of my tax dollars could be as one famous person coined the phrase, “change we can depend on”:  i’m still waiting, i’m sure you are, too.

i got a good letter from cynthia mckinney this morning talking about the 1% and their pychopathic behavior.  they are incapable of feeling empathy toward their fellowman.  IT’S GENETIC.

Natural beauty doesn’t pay the bills.  And to ensure that there are less welfare checks being cashed, you need more jobs.  I’m not quite sure where the welfare check cashing casinos came in, but whatever.  A job, is a job, is a job.  Take a look around people…everytime I come home, Natchez looks more and more like a ghost town with more and more stores/businesses closing down.  What I would suggest you do, instead of complaining about “natural beauty”, is get from behind your computer and go to a meeting or 2 and let your voice be heard.  Otherwise, be quiet and be glad that more jobs are coming to Natchez.

Am I glad there is another casino coming? Yes I am. It brings jobs that have 401k, vacation, health insurance. Am I glad it’s at Roth’s Hill? Not particularly. I do wish it could have gone to where the other casino was going, but it’s not, so let’s just accept what we have. That property isn’t for sale. Roth’s Hill was NEVER going to be anything more than a cul-da-sac at the bottom of a hill. That’s it, pure and simple. Let these people develop it and get some jobs going. 2 casinos will be much better than one. We will begin to see more traffic that is now going to Vicksburg, Caushatta & Marksville. Natchez is a wonderful place and let’s just give people more things to do. AND, if this company fails and doesn’t come to fruition, we’ve got a wonderful spot with a tredmendous deck over the water. :)

I’m kind of glad you don’t live downtown either. With another industry coming downtown, MORE PEOPLE will be downtown; and that’s a good thing.

I’m sorry, but “this wonderful riverbank” is a cul-de-sac” to nowhere, until now.

We are not buying fences here to fence off private property, maybe Nashville has a grant for that?

Maybe now we will have good live entertainment coming in that stopped when Lady luck sold out!! I feel its great for more jobs!!!!!!!

i am speaking of my 36 years of paying taxes on my property which as been diverted to improving outlying “flight” on the run, scaredfulloffearindividualsinstead of stayingputandfightingforequalityandjusticeforall.  i don’t know or care where your comments are coming from, but i can guess.. P>O>H>

It’s only the future coming folks, @ least 10 years from now the Natchez/Vidalia riverfront MISS River Bridge corridor will be a site to see. New growth will be a coming, means get some land/house cheap now before it gets to big city prices

Clearly you need to educate yourself on the history of the Natchez riverfront.  Do you think Under the Hill had the reputation it had because the river was scenic?  Get a clue.

san65……….I would love to be able to understand what you are are trying to say here.

san65   I sure wish i could figure out what you are trying to say here and what it has to do with the casino site in natchez. Wait untill they find out that this site is nothing but rock and riprap and goes under water at drop of a hat. Now if we look at the site on the other side of the bridge, hadf there bin a casino there it would have bin high and dry with our last high water.

The real question is can Natchez, a city of just over 16K, support two casinos?  Unlike Tunica, Natchez doesn’t have a Memphis or an Arkansas nearby shuttling patrons in.

I guess we’ll see.

Hey Crack, all I know is Marksville ( The Paragon) is 5 or 6 times larger than Isle of Capri; and Marksville is truly in the middle of nowhere and that casino is full from can to can’t. I really believe this will be a boost for Natchez. And I do believe we can support it.

” the construction of a second Natchez casino, which is scheduled to be complete next October “  – -  Good Deal !!  I’m excited !! – - But I guess I’m sorta biased, huh ?   lol  !!!

If you really think that the people that go throw their money away on that floating casino actually follow it up with a pleasant buying trip or say a nice lunch or dinner in downtown Natchez …you live in a different world.  they drive to the boat, dump all the money they have and leave, the path to and from is well worn and it does not go downtown.