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Article: After decades, King Edward coming back.
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- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- April 7, 2008
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Forty years after the lights went out, the King Edward Hotel is on its way back.
Developers and political leaders jabbed shovels into the dirt at a groundbreaking ceremony March 27, marking the end of the building's tenure as a home for pigeons and a hangout for the homeless, and the rise of its renewal.
"It used to be a message of shame and embarrassment," said David Watkins, a Jackson attorney who is developing the project along with HRI Properties of New Orleans and Deuce McAllister, the former and Ole Miss running back and current New Orleans Saints star. "This is a testament to the will and the determination of the people of Jackson and ...