Posted by FadedGlory (anonymous) on November 20, 2009 at 12:49 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Good riddance! In this economy the last thing this area needs is a vacuum to suck the few dollars left out of here, and send them to Vegas, which is where the main percentage of the money goes anyway!

The idea of a Casino is to take your money and only give back just enough to keep you going till you've lost everything you had!

Posted by NatchezEnema (anonymous) on November 20, 2009 at 1:22 a.m. (Suggest removal)

We need anything that will bring in money. Casino, horse race, or ditch diggers. I only feel for the local contractors. Take a 1.6 million hit in good times is bad. Take it in this kind of economy and it is disaster. If I was any of these local contractors I would want free dinner and rooms at the least, and a good bottle of whiskey to help soften the hit of being owed this kind of money.

Posted by snatchez (anonymous) on November 20, 2009 at 8:12 a.m. (Suggest removal)

what ever happened the city's big casino? The lane company? Another of Jake the Mistake bad deals.

Posted by gottabehappy (anonymous) on November 20, 2009 at 8:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)

yawn

Posted by double011 (anonymous) on November 20, 2009 at 9:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)

They laid off restaraunt employees except a handful and a meeting yesterday I feel sorry, for several of my friends that saw a great oppurtunity with this company and now or facing layoffs.

Posted by rburke1 (anonymous) on November 20, 2009 at 10:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Natchez Enema,

I'll go for the wiskey!

Posted by snowgarden (anonymous) on November 20, 2009 at 11:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Actually, even though casinos are a cesspool (sp?), they do draw in quite a bit of revenue. Catch 22.

Posted by ray1976 (anonymous) on November 20, 2009 at 4:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I SAY WHAT WE NEED HERE IN NATCHEZ IS A SMALL ZOO FOR THE FAMILY, SOMETHING TO SPEND MONEY ON AND GET ENJOYMENT! NOT THROW UR MONEY IN A MACHINE AND LOSE IT ! I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST CASINOS BUT ITS NOT GOOD TO LOSE MONEY U DONT HAVE. FOLKS SPEND WELFARE CHECKS AND CHILD SUPPORT MONEY IN THE CASINOS WHEN IT SHOULD BE USED AS INTENDED.

Posted by CtheOtherSide (anonymous) on November 20, 2009 at 4:53 p.m. (Suggest removal)

There's still hope. I believe it's just temporary. With the boat gone, maybe they can pull out of it and make headway. The restaurant has fantastic food, and they're changing lunch to a $10.95 buffet Tue-Sat, so there's actually time for lunch there during the workday. Yea! Their rooms are very nice, too. If only they could just do business as a hotel and restaurant! The location is great for just that! A lot of people don't even know where they are (the old Ramada site).

We should be pulling for local businesses...they employ local folks! You never know how this may go. Just pray for its success, because it affects our town, its people, and how people see Natchez. With the lit bridge, and the view from The Vue, it could become another little place to go!

Enough of the doomsday talk already! People want employers to come in, but they talk them down when they struggle to make it here. And doesn't it seem that someone at the ND doesn't want to see it succeed? Is it just me or is every touch of bad news on the Grand Soleil prominently placed on the front page? What's with that? I don't see as much coverage on other new businesses' state of financial health. Ever think that potential local businesses might see this as a hostile environment when they look at all these negative comments on-line?

Posted by NatchezEnema (anonymous) on November 20, 2009 at 4:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)

You say we need a Zoo? Go downtown and you will see the biggest one in the state at city hall.

Posted by micro (anonymous) on November 20, 2009 at 6:38 p.m. (Suggest removal)

To Ray1976....

A zoo. Is that a selfish want. Because if you checked, very few of the zoos, in this country actually make money. Many are support by organizations such as Friends of zoo organization.

Posted by ray1976 (anonymous) on November 20, 2009 at 6:57 p.m. (Suggest removal)

no micro its not selfish, its thinking about children and families with nothing to do. thats why kids do crime , all we have here in natchez is for elderly, which is good. elderly need things too, but children are our future.

Posted by Continental_Line (anonymous) on November 20, 2009 at 8:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

A Zoo ??????

One more time - I want to hear everyone come together in glorious unity and say a loud " Lord have mercy ! "

Posted by gottabehappy (anonymous) on November 20, 2009 at 9:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I'm with YOU Continental_Line! They screamed for the recreation to pass and it does! Now somebody wants a ZOO? Are you freakin kidding me?

no making some folks happy

Posted by Continental_Line (anonymous) on November 20, 2009 at 10:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Gottabehappy,

You are so right ! ... RECREATION is here !!

All of our problems are solved.

We can have a " Zoo "

Crystal Meth and Crack will disapear the first day the Natchez Zoo opens .

Posted by ray1976 (anonymous) on November 21, 2009 at 12:27 a.m. (Suggest removal)

ur all pathetic!

Posted by revols (anonymous) on November 21, 2009 at 12:43 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I think a zoo would be awesome and good for tourism as well as locals.

Posted by knowsthefacts (anonymous) on November 21, 2009 at 9:06 a.m. (Suggest removal)

To all the nayayers of this casino, remember we are talking about 400 plus JOBS in this area and important TAX REVENUE for the city "where the Old South still Lives." If most people, who know their own financial situation, are so febble-minded as to spend their hard earned money on a casino, maybe they should just go downtown and let the hoodlums rob them at gunpoint.
Casinos force NOONE to spend their money! God gave you a brain, so you should to use it. We need jobs and Natchez needs tax money. Somehow the money will be aquired and the casino will operate. Then these people may sing a different tune.

Posted by MIN1 (anonymous) on November 21, 2009 at noon (Suggest removal)

I somewhat agree with CtheOtherSide,

The hotel and the Vue are first class, and the food and atmosphere are some if not the best in Natchez. There is nothing wrong with having some excellence in dining, besides fried pickles and fast food.

Let's hope the hotel and restaurant do make it, so we won't have another empty shell of a business, advertising the mis- management and poverty of the 49th poorest, and number one un-healthiest state in the country. We all have different opinions and experiences about Gambling Houses or "Boats."

Let me also apologize if I offended the fried pickle eaters, I's a do like em too when their hot. Really, lighten up a little people. Your gonna get through it.

Posted by Kaintuck (anonymous) on November 21, 2009 at 1:38 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Grungebob is right: zoos are not cheap. That is why every major metropolitan area has one, and why nearly all small towns do not. Ray1976 is correct too; in that, zoos add economically and socially to the tourist experience, as well as in overall community development, but again, they are not inexpensive, and especially in the current financial climate, probably not economically viable here. There could also be an issue with market saturation, as Jackson, Monroe, Alexandria, Baton Rouge and New Orleans already have zoos.

Posted by Continental_Line (anonymous) on November 21, 2009 at 1:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I was wrong. A Zoo may be a great idea. As some of you history buffs will remember - in 1810 , people traveled to Natchez from miles around to see the elephant on display at Texada. This was tourism at it's finest in the Mississippi Territory. No rooms were available, the Taverns were packed. In true Natchez fashion, everyone had a drunken party in honor of the elephant. Unfortunately, they started letting the elephant drink beer. What happened next is somewhat unclear, but whatever happened was not too good. The territorial legislature passed a law about drunken elephants.

Details are at :

http://www.mississippiinjurylawyerblog.c...

So, lets build a Historic Natchez Zoo.

Posted by CanYouHearMeNow (anonymous) on November 22, 2009 at 9:01 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Yes Natchez needs a ZOO alright. One to hold all the "Thug Mamas" and their "Cubs".

Posted by 214cur (anonymous) on November 22, 2009 at 1:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)

since we got recreation we need to bring a zoo here,a water park for the summer for the kids and a race track were the natchez airport is at cause there not doin anything with the airport.............WE AS PEOPLE NEED TO STAND UP AND SAY SOMETHING TO THE MAYOR OR SOMEONE TO BRING THINGS HERE.....NATCHEZ HAS ABOUT 39,364 PEOPLE AND SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE!!!!

Posted by 214cur (anonymous) on November 22, 2009 at 1:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)

NATCHEZ CAN BRING A MAJOR BASKETBALL OR BASEBALL TEAM HERE THAT WILL BRING TONS OF MONEY INTO THE AREA.....ALL THEY GOT TO DO IS LET THE BASKETBALL OR BASEBALL TEAM PLAY IN JACKSON MS UNTIL THEY BUILD AN ARENA HERE............ON 61 SOUTH THERES ALOT OF LAND 4 AN ARENA, A ZOO, A WATER PARK OR SOMETHING..COME ON NATCHEZ LETS GET THIS THANG GOIN OR PEOPLE GONE START LEAVING THE AREA GOING ELSEWHERE!!!!!

Posted by 214cur (anonymous) on November 22, 2009 at 1:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)

NATCHEZ CAN BRING A MAJOR BASKETBALL OR BASEBALL TEAM HERE THAT WILL BRING TONS OF MONEY INTO THE AREA.....ALL THEY GOT TO DO IS LET THE BASKETBALL OR BASEBALL TEAM PLAY IN JACKSON MS UNTIL THEY BUILD AN ARENA HERE............ON 61 SOUTH THERES ALOT OF LAND 4 AN ARENA, A ZOO, A WATER PARK OR SOMETHING..COME ON NATCHEZ LETS GET THIS THANG GOIN OR PEOPLE GONE START LEAVING THE AREA GOING ELSEWHERE!!!!!

Posted by 214cur (anonymous) on November 22, 2009 at 1:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)

NATCHEZ CAN BRING A MAJOR BASKETBALL OR BASEBALL TEAM HERE THAT WILL BRING TONS OF MONEY INTO THE AREA.....ALL THEY GOT TO DO IS LET THE BASKETBALL OR BASEBALL TEAM PLAY IN JACKSON MS UNTIL THEY BUILD AN ARENA HERE............ON 61 SOUTH THERES ALOT OF LAND 4 AN ARENA, A ZOO, A WATER PARK OR SOMETHING..COME ON NATCHEZ LETS GET THIS THANG GOIN OR PEOPLE GONE START LEAVING THE AREA GOING ELSEWHERE!!!!!

Posted by Continental_Line (anonymous) on November 22, 2009 at 4:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)

214cur ,

What happened ? Did your enter button get stuck ? However, I think you may be right, A Professional NBA team may also help to solve our money problems. 61 south at Sibley would be perfect for a regional Basket Ball Jones . The guv 'mint can include dis n da recreational thang.

Posted by 214cur (anonymous) on November 22, 2009 at 5:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)

yea we need somthing here real bad.......

Posted by gottabehappy (anonymous) on November 23, 2009 at 1:30 p.m. (Suggest removal)

we've had a zoo here before....Goat Castle...look it up