The Kelly Factory

Alex, our intern, may be out of school today, but she’s not off work. 😂

Tonight, we’re joining The Growth Table on Women for Progress Radio Network for a conversation about neighborhood redevelopment and the role architecture, planning and community development play in building stronger communities. Tune in tonight, August 27, at 7 p.m. Central as we sit down with host Jason H. Brookins to talk partnerships, progress, growth and what it takes to create lasting impact in our neighborhoods. Watch live on the Women for Progress MS page or Women for Progress Radio on YouTube.

On Saturday, August 15, we celebrated the groundbreaking of Bloom Homes Assisted Living and Memory Care. The 9,390-square-foot facility will include 16 residential units, living and dining areas, a commercial kitchen, and additional staff and support spaces. The Kelly Factory, in collaboration with architectural designer and project manager Corey Hays, provided architectural services for the project and will provide construction administration and owner representation throughout construction. We’re excited to see this project come to life!

Photo credit: Alex Kelly, 8-year-old intern

Makeover Monday is a series by The Kelly Factory that spotlights vacant and underused properties across Jackson, reimagining them as active, renovated spaces. These concepts are not real projects, but if you would like to bring one to life, we can prepare a full speculative real estate development proposal with construction costs, revenue potential, and other key metrics that demonstrate true development merit.

Today's Makeover Monday highlights one of Jackson's vacant architectural gems hiding in plain sight. This five-story office building is known as the CrossRoads Building. A great adaptive reuse opportunity would be to convert it into a housing cooperative development.

Unlike a traditional apartment lease structure, a housing cooperative, or housing co-op, gives residents an ownership stake in the corporation that owns the property, along with the potential to build equity as the property's value increases.

Makeover Monday is a series by The Kelly Factory that spotlights vacant and underused properties across Jackson, reimagining them as active, renovated spaces. These concepts are not real projects, but if you would like to bring one to life, we can prepare a full speculative real estate development proposal with construction costs, revenue potential, and other key metrics that demonstrate true development merit. Contact us to learn more.

What if the vacant 129,000-square-foot former cold storage and dry-goods distribution center near Hawkins Field Airport could be transformed into one of the region's largest indoor food production destinations?

This week's Makeover Monday reimagines the former distribution facility as an indoor aquaponic vertical produce farm and catfish farm, creating a new model for local food production, workforce development, agritourism, and community gathering. Aquaponics is the process of growing food in a liquid medium using the nutrient-rich water produced by fish, and this building's large floor area, industrial infrastructure, and 8-acre site make it a natural fit for a year-round agricultural campus capable of producing fresh vegetables and catfish close to the people and businesses that need them most.

Makeover Monday is a series by The Kelly Factory that spotlights vacant and underused properties across Jackson, reimagining them as active, renovated spaces. These concepts are not real projects, but if you would like to bring one to life, we can prepare a full speculative real estate development proposal with construction costs, revenue potential, and other key metrics that demonstrate true development merit. Contact us to learn more.

Just in time for back to school, today's Makeover Monday tackles a much-needed issue in the City of Jackson: giving our teens something to do. This vacant neighborhood community center can be repurposed into a Teen Center serving various functions, including an arcade, a teen-run cafe, a mini library with a computer lab, and a multi-purpose flex space to accommodate teen-led activities and events.

Today's Makeover Monday highlights the Queen of Hearts, a historic blues venue in Jackson's Georgetown neighborhood. During its heyday, the Queen of Hearts hosted live blues performances and became a notable part of Jackson's musical heritage. Today, the building sits vacant.

The Kelly Factory envisions restoring the property as a live music venue and café while incorporating an interpretive center that celebrates the history of the Queen of Hearts and the artists, music, and culture that shaped its legacy. Revitalizing historic places like this preserves Jackson's cultural heritage while creating opportunities for neighborhood investment, tourism, and community gathering.

Makeover Monday is a series by The Kelly Factory that spotlights vacant and underused properties across Jackson, reimagining them as active, renovated spaces. These concepts are not real projects, but if you would like to bring one to life, we can prepare a full speculative real estate development proposal with construction costs, revenue potential, and other key metrics that demonstrate true development merit. Contact us to learn more.

After more than 50 years, Piccadilly, located inside the Jackson Medical Mall, closed last week. For some, Piccadilly is nostalgic; for others, including The Kellys, we frequent the Medical Mall weekly, so the loss is deeply felt, especially for a community already experiencing a shortage of dine-in restaurant options.

The Kelly Factory proposes converting this available restaurant space into a food hall-style dining facility. A food hall would provide a variety of food vendors as well as commercial restaurant space for restaurateurs looking for a location inside an established venue with built-in foot traffic.

Makeover Monday is a series by The Kelly Factory that spotlights vacant and underused properties across Jackson, reimagining them as active, renovated spaces. These concepts are not real projects, but if you would like to bring one to life, we can prepare a full speculative real estate development proposal with construction costs, revenue potential, and other key metrics that demonstrate true development merit. Contact us to learn more.

A fresh look for a familiar place. The Kelly Factory provided architectural services to renovate an existing gas station, including exterior improvements, interior upgrades, and renovated kitchen and restroom spaces.

What if Jackson's vacant commercial buildings became launching pads for local food entrepreneurs? This week, The Kelly Factory reimagines a vacant 3,400 square foot former Arby's as a locally owned restaurant, located across the street from the Mississippi Coliseum and Mississippi Trade Mart, near the gateway to downtown Jackson and the interstate system.

Makeover Monday is a series by The Kelly Factory that spotlights vacant and underused properties across Jackson, reimagining them as active, renovated spaces. These concepts are not real projects, but if you would like to bring one to life, we can prepare a full speculative real estate development proposal with construction costs, revenue potential, and other key metrics that demonstrate true development merit. Contact us to learn more.