Last year, Joe Jackson and Gary Mayor Rudy Clay announced plans for the Jackson Family Center on 300 acres of city-owned land. The plans included moving the 1,000-square-foot Jackson house a few blocks to become part of a complex with a museum, performing arts center and perhaps a casino.
“The plans are moving along,” said Orland Park, Ill., businessman Odie Anderson, who said he was the local point man for Joe Jackson’s group. “We are in the process of hiring contractors.”
Asked whether the estate had any involvement in a proposed Gary museum, Howard Weitzman, the estate’s attorney, replied via email, “No!!”
Jackson’s attorney, Brian Oxman, acknowledges the project has encountered “obstacles.”
“I know Joe has always wanted to do something in Gary,” Oxman said. “That’s where his life was. That’s where his family was born. Who knows what can be done?”
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