An out-of-state businessman is one step closer to his goal of building a manufacturing facility behind the Metrocenter Mall after the Jackson City Council voted to approve his rezoning request on Monday.
However, he may no longer own some of the land he wants to build on after years of failing to pay property taxes.
Christopher Jones, a South Carolina businessman, wants to build a small industrial facility behind the abandoned mall in west Jackson to manufacture recycled plastic foam and concrete blocks through his company, BioCrete Global Manufacturing…