Walls

Yes.

And Bertha Faye is from Walls, Mississippi.

I did not know that.

Yep.

Doyle said in a press release he is, quote, "excited to return." For The Daily Memphian, I'm Noah McClain.

Restaurant tour Robert Abbey is trying to have his 1,200 acres of farmland in Walls, Mississippi rezoned to allow for industrial use.

Aaron Fleming of The Daily Memphian says Abbey, who owns the Abbey's restaurants in Memphis and DeSoto County, hasn't suggested any specific plans for the project.

Leaders say Walls needs development to spur growth in an area that has historically lagged behind neighboring municipalities.

The residents fear the new zoning classification could lead to unwanted types of development, specifically a data center.

Some are also worried the land's historic character will be lost to time.

Other cities are also kind of taking different approaches to it.

Yeah, but my old stomping grounds in Walls, Mississippi, yes, where I grew up most of my childhood, the Planning Commission voted to reject the request to rezone roughly 1,200 acres from agricultural residential to M1 light industrial areas.

And that proposed rezoning could have opened the property to a possible data center development.

And the public hearing drew such a large crowd that the meeting was moved from Wall City Hall to the Walls Elementary School Gymnasium, where I used to break people's ankles as I crossed them over with a basketball.

Residents

opposed the rezoning over concerns about its proximity to Lake Cormorant schools, possible environmental impacts, infrastructure strain, and the potential construction of a data center.

No resident spoke in favor of the rezoning during the public hearing.

Commissioner Jimmy Jones made the motion to deny the rezoning, and Commissioner Kenna Gates seconded it.

Memphis, not so.

Walls, on the other hand.

Now, Walls.

It seems like a very unlikely place for a data center, but they just had a packed house on Tuesday night.

There was a proposal to rezone 1,200 acres from agriculture residential to light industrial, which could have.

So so now you have and then you have another community, Hernando, the same way that Hernando said, well, you know, we got to do something, too.

So they rewrote their zoning so that it was so tight that there's almost no spot you could put one, Hernando.

So now you have a rural community like Walls again.