For most of the summer, the former Family Dollar on Terry Road in south Jackson has sat vacant, leaving people in the community with fewer convenient options for everyday necessities.
Family Dollar’s shutdown in May is part of a recurrent theme of business closures in the capital city in recent years, with south and west Jackson hit the hardest.
Now, over 41,000 pounds of clothing fill the store’s back room, visible through the glass doors of the storefront.
The mountain of clothing is part of what Niyah Sessom and George Roethemeyer have been working toward — a new secondhand goods store named Mega Thrift…