JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Leaders celebrated the completion of Leonard Court on Thursday, a $29 million project that restored 67 historic homes in Jackson’s Farish Street neighborhood.
Dorothy Davis grew up near Farish Street and watched the neighborhood fall apart over the decades. On Thursday, she watched it come back.
“This area, just this area was blooming. Then I saw it go down to nothing where nobody should have lived in that situation. But look at it today. Out of the ashes, we rose,” Davis said…