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Wow, this is crazy. I was actually raised in laurel Mississippi. I go there every summer to visit old friends and relatives. I’m currently in New Jersey.
You live in a Beautiful Area, I seen a historic home for sale.. The Old Hosey Place, seems nice but can't figure why it's been for Sale for so long🤔😄 I support the Mercantile Business down there and would love to see the place be successful, Down to Earth helping give the youth moral values and building self esteem that they can do anything in life..📕👋😎🙏💪☝️👍
I was born in Laurel, and raised here. From my experiance all throughout my life most people don't really care too much for Laurel because it has always been kind of boring. If you wanted to do something fun, and worthwhile you would go outta town somewhere like Hattiesburg or to the coast. I mean it's cool we have all of these little shops popping up, and stuff now, but I think Hometown kind of overexaggerated how great Laurel is. There is a reason as someone else mentioned that most graduates move away from here, and that the crimerate is high.
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Traffic lights in the downtown area are are terrible. The sensors do not work. You may sit at a red light for over a minute with no one in sight from any direction.
For anyone that didn't know Laurel Urban Renewal torn down literally half the town in the 70s, replaced buildings with never used parking lots, spent millions in federal money to build an elaborate canopy covering in 1977 which made no one go there, then tore those down 20 and 30 years later. Just the amount of money wasted just on the brick in Kampers alley was staggering. There was also an expensive pedestrian bridge in the project. It was between the two intersections @2:05. It crossed a low traffic road to the back of a grocery store for no reason instead of from Sears to the later new mall. We called it the bridge to nowhere. Officials finally tore it down since people were pointing out the Boondoggle and applying it's logic to then current projects. Now the current administration is spending millions in federal grant money to spruce up the very same road. The road itself is kind of a white elephant. People do travel it but for most it's kind of a weird cut through more than a main road. I don't think traffic there ever justified it being 4 lanes.
As I suspected, downtown is dead. You have to have industry and manufacturing or you cannot keep a town alive. Little shops will not keep it alive. Tourism is not enough. I worry for Laurel. All these people putting those shops together with such high hopes, so I don't think did a market analysis. I think they just put all their savings into something that's probably not gonna work out. Open a factory. Get full employment in town. Make solar panels or computer chips.
Did you bother to do analysis of the town? Howard Industries is the nations largest electrical transformer manufacturer and employs 4000 people or so, the hospital and it's clinics claim to employ 2100. Masonite over 500. Oil and Gas employs more than that. The town has been here 142 years with the tourist being here for 6 of those. Solar panels sounds really smart until your realize this was already done 26 miles from Laurel in Hattiesburg (Stion) and failed because people need more than Chinese wages. So that's not competitive for consumers. The chip makers "investing" in America will head off to China or India with the majority of federal funded billions they didn't burn through. Oh they also assembly Howard Computers near Laurel but I wouldn't get one. Many of these shops in Laurel and across the country are created with certain incentives from the government but I'm not getting into that any deeper than saying some people lose, some people don't. That's life.
This was near Christmas or at least winter by the trees . You can’t move in downtown during the spring , summer and fall . It’s doing surprisingly well .
@@donanunnery6130 True, I avoid the area when possible. Many Texas plated cars going 15 MPH from downtown to 12th street. At 5PM it's typical a ghost town tho with some Fridays nights doing well and others not for no rhyme or reason.
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Wow, this is crazy. I was actually raised in laurel Mississippi. I go there every summer to visit old friends and relatives. I’m currently in New Jersey.
I was born in Laurel and raised in Hattiesburg but currently living in wisconsin and go down to visit family and relatives.❤️💯
Beautiful town. Wonderful buildings. Everything looks so clean and nice. Thanks.
Wow, that was very well done. Thank you for sharing!😀😃
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Hi Ed! Laurel is pretty cool. My uncle owns two pharmacies there. Thomas Pharmacy ♥️
Cool. It's a nice city
You live in a Beautiful Area, I seen a historic home for sale.. The Old Hosey Place, seems nice but can't figure why it's been for Sale for so long🤔😄 I support the Mercantile Business down there and would love to see the place be successful, Down to Earth helping give the youth moral values and building self esteem that they can do anything in life..📕👋😎🙏💪☝️👍
The Honey house is nice. Unfortunately because it's a Hometown remodel it's priced too high for the neighborhood.
Been here. Clean, friendly and vey interesting city. I'm going back too.
I was born in Laurel, and raised here. From my experiance all throughout my life most people don't really care too much for Laurel because it has always been kind of boring. If you wanted to do something fun, and worthwhile you would go outta town somewhere like Hattiesburg or to the coast. I mean it's cool we have all of these little shops popping up, and stuff now, but I think Hometown kind of overexaggerated how great Laurel is. There is a reason as someone else mentioned that most graduates move away from here, and that the crimerate is high.
Thanks for the way you do your videos. The commentary is very welcome. I'm from the south. Love your southern videos.Keep up the good work. New subscriber here.
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❤❤❤❤❤ My home town.My favorite city and state.
Better than I thought. Not Bad.
Crime is very high here and a severe shortage of Police officers.
Traffic lights in the downtown area are are terrible. The sensors do not work. You may sit at a red light for over a minute with no one in sight from any direction.
For anyone that didn't know Laurel Urban Renewal torn down literally half the town in the 70s, replaced buildings with never used parking lots, spent millions in federal money to build an elaborate canopy covering in 1977 which made no one go there, then tore those down 20 and 30 years later. Just the amount of money wasted just on the brick in Kampers alley was staggering.
There was also an expensive pedestrian bridge in the project. It was between the two intersections @2:05. It crossed a low traffic road to the back of a grocery store for no reason instead of from Sears to the later new mall. We called it the bridge to nowhere. Officials finally tore it down since people were pointing out the Boondoggle and applying it's logic to then current projects. Now the current administration is spending millions in federal grant money to spruce up the very same road. The road itself is kind of a white elephant. People do travel it but for most it's kind of a weird cut through more than a main road. I don't think traffic there ever justified it being 4 lanes.
Thanks for your input.
This is ole beans and bologna mans home town
Also he hiding the other 90% of town
This dude small town wild 🤷♂️🤷♀️🤦♀️🤦♂️
As I suspected, downtown is dead. You have to have industry and manufacturing or you cannot keep a town alive. Little shops will not keep it alive. Tourism is not enough. I worry for Laurel. All these people putting those shops together with such high hopes, so I don't think did a market analysis. I think they just put all their savings into something that's probably not gonna work out. Open a factory. Get full employment in town. Make solar panels or computer chips.
Did you bother to do analysis of the town? Howard Industries is the nations largest electrical transformer manufacturer and employs 4000 people or so, the hospital and it's clinics claim to employ 2100. Masonite over 500. Oil and Gas employs more than that. The town has been here 142 years with the tourist being here for 6 of those. Solar panels sounds really smart until your realize this was already done 26 miles from Laurel in Hattiesburg (Stion) and failed because people need more than Chinese wages. So that's not competitive for consumers. The chip makers "investing" in America will head off to China or India with the majority of federal funded billions they didn't burn through. Oh they also assembly Howard Computers near Laurel but I wouldn't get one.
Many of these shops in Laurel and across the country are created with certain incentives from the government but I'm not getting into that any deeper than saying some people lose, some people don't. That's life.
Appreciate the insight
This was near Christmas or at least winter by the trees . You can’t move in downtown during the spring , summer and fall . It’s doing surprisingly well .
@@donanunnery6130 True, I avoid the area when possible. Many Texas plated cars going 15 MPH from downtown to 12th street. At 5PM it's typical a ghost town tho with some Fridays nights doing well and others not for no rhyme or reason.
@@exploringthesouth975 and thank you for the videos. Cool seeing some of the places you visited that are just two or three hours away but I've never been to.
this city sucks i live here