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Smart and Sustainable
Campuses Conference@
The University of Maryland
November 3-4, 2005
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E-City
Jackson State University
bybyRoy DeBerry, Ph.D.Roy DeBerry, Ph.D.
Vice President for Economic Development & Local Governmental Vice President for Economic Development & Local Governmental AffairsAffairs
Jackson State UniversityJackson State UniversityPost Office Box 17240Post Office Box 17240Jackson, MS 39217Jackson, MS 39217
e-Mail: e-Mail: [email protected]: www.jsums.eduWebsite: www.jsums.edu
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e-City @ Jackson State University
Working to make a difference in West
Jackson
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Who are We?
e-City is a university-based economic and community development initiative that involves the business, non-profit, faith-based and government sectors. It is also the focus of significant intellectual and service activity of JSU faculty and students.
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Our Mission
The e-City Initiative will facilitate the development of
economies and neighborhoods in West Jackson through promotion of education, technical assistance and innovative technologies.
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Our Vision
Over the next ten years, we envision that e-City will be transformed from an inner city development challenge
to a model urban center, with the universal use of technology as a means to such transformation.
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Our Stakeholders
• Our community includes students, faculty, staff, residents, faith-based institutions, and business owners.
• Our community also includes consumers outside of e-city who consume goods, services, and products in e-City.
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Map of Targeted Area
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DemographicsAccording to the 2000 Census data:• e-City has a total population of 22,626. • 87% of the residents are African American
and 12% are Caucasian. • Unlike the city of Jackson, which has seen a
40 percent increase of non-white ethnic groups since 1990 (specifically Hispanics) only 1 percent of e-City residents are Hispanic, Asian, and American Indian. However, Hurricane Katrina has changed this statistic.
• The median household income in e-City is 40 percent less than in Jackson as a whole. The median household income is $8,185 and 35% of the e-City residents live below the poverty level.
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Strengths (Assets) of e-City
• e-City is anchored by the downtown business district, the e-Center, the largest shopping mall in the region, and a major research university, Jackson State University, serves as its hub;
• Great access to major interstate systems (I-20, I-220, I-55) & Metro Parkway;
• Pockets of well-established neighborhoods whose median household and family incomes as well as housing values surpass the medians for the City of Jackson;
• 5 neighborhood schools, including one elementary that has attained the highest state testing designation of Level 5;
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Strengths• Designated federal Enterprise
Community
• Has an historical district & Margaret Walker Alexander Research Center;
• Home of John Perkins, nationally known social and religious pioneer;
• Neighborhood Parks; and
• Significant social capital – long-term residents, non-profits, churches, faith-based organizations, and Habitat for Humanity.
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• Create a premiere urban university;
• Re-establish a linkage between the university and community;
• Create a critical mass of reinvestment; and help stimulate employment and entrepreneurship through the innovative use of technology; and
• Encourage residential and business retention as well as attract new activity to e-City.
How do we build upon our strengths?...Our Goals
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Our Objectives• Complete the comprehensive plan for e-
City, which encompasses all the plans from the county, city and university master plan;
• Complete the reconstruction of 10 homes on Barrett Avenue, Dalton and Booker streets in Washington Addition. Six (6) new homes have been either leased or sold;
• Complete the clean–up of land we own and secure financial partners to buy and/or build the other 10 properties owned by the university/EBC;
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Objectives• Provide technical assistance as we partner with
the non-profit and private sectors to build mixed income housing in University Park, Deer Park and Olin Park neighborhoods;
• Encourage the building of retail outlets along Lynch Street, Rose Street, and Terry Road. The housing and retail activities will provide training and jobs for the people in e-City;
• Stimulate the creation of at least two new businesses on Lynch Street by the end of 2006;
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Objectives• As Parkway Commissioner, facilitate Phase II completion
of the Metro Parkway in Fall 2005;
• Partner with Jackson Public School system through the Mississippi Learning Academy to enhance the K-12 schools in e-City;
• Encourage the new Mayor and CAO to reopen the police substation in Washington Addition; and
• Design and complete the e-City Center for Economic and Community Development-$1 million facility to serve as the gateway to Jackson State from the community and downtown.
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Accomplishments• Fannie Mae Assessment completed in
2004. Featured in a national magazine—NACUBO’s Business Officer.
• Completed housing study for Time-Warner Cable, which analyzed the middle-class housing demand in metro Jackson;
• Assessed Entergy-Hinds County Economic Development District Study. The study examined assets in West Jackson and determined how many e-Citians travel great distances to shop and entertain.
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Accomplishments
• HUD (HOOP) grant-funded a comprehensive plan for Barrett Avenue (Washington Addition). Will use the plan as a model for all of the Addition;
• Partnered with UniDev Consultants to develop a partial plan for Rose and Lynch Streets retail development;
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Accomplishments• An historical district plan for Lynch Street
(Timbuktu to JSU) is about 60% complete. The Corridor will house a museum, renovated COFO offices, retail business, reclaimed Mt. Olive Cemetery, Civil Rights tours and other developments
• City of Jackson street improvement (Lynch Street Infrastructure). The City of Jackson has agreed to resurface/landscape Lynch from Dalton to Terry Road when heavy construction at the University is complete.
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Accomplishments• Phase I of the Metro Parkway
construction is complete
• JSU’s massive redevelopment has created a bevy of residential and retail activities in e-City from refurbished homes to $100 million of new construction on campus.
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“Where do we go from here?”
Next Steps:
• Seek Private developer partnerships/collaborations;
• Create an e-City Foundation;
• Institutionalize federal, state, county and city collaboration;
• Create access to CRA funds and Tax Increment Financing (TIF);
• Become a wireless campus and community;
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Where do we go from here?NEXT STEPS:
• Involve the College of Business more in helping to stimulate entrepreneurship and e-City business expansion specifically;
• Work specifically with University’s colleges to facilitate Service Learning; and
• e-City has over 8,500 students, faculty, and staff and 21,000 residents in the community. This is a captured market waiting to be served. How can you help us provide the services for this market?
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“How can you help?”
• Your financial and networking resources;
• Expertise and leadership investment;• Other professional assets• Desire to tell the “story” of change @
JSU and West Jackson• Act as advisory board• Act as network/resource
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The e-City dream
continues. . .
Keep Hope Alive!!
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Thank You.