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Another bill aiming to build a new athletic stadium for Jackson State University was filed by Mississippi House Rep. Robert Johnson, D-94, who has filed a version of the bill for the past two years.
The past few years have seen talks of changing JSU football’s current home, the 60,000-plus seat Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium, to another area of the city to provide more property for the University of Mississippi Medical Center. The stadium is located just across North State Street from UMMC.
But time and time again, those talks have stalled. Johnson, who spoke with the Clarion Ledger in a phone interview on Tuesday, said he wasn’t “extremely confident” his bill would pass this session, but said building a new stadium is an “inevitability because UMMC has to expand, and it doesn’t have anywhere else to go.”
Johnson, who currently serves as the Mississippi House of Representatives minority leader, has filed a bill to build a new stadium for at least the past two years. His most recent attempt is House Bill 137, which appropriates $40 million to build a new stadium, though it doesn’t say where it would be located nor what would happen to the existing Veterans Memorial Stadium.
An aerial view of Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium and the University of Mississippi Medical Center. For the past few years, there have been talks of moving the stadium to provide more property for UMMC and building a new athletic facility for Jackson State University, which uses the stadium for all home football games. A bill was recently filed in the Mississippi Legislature that would appropriate $40 million to JSU to build a new facility, though it falls short of stating where the new stadium would be located.
Additionally, Johnson, whose son played football at JSU, said now would be a great time for the Mississippi Legislature to make…
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Publish date : 2025-01-23 17:24:00
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