Re-imagining Magnolia with ChatGPT: Vacant lot on South Jackson – Magnolia Reporter

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Updated: October 24, 2025 @ 8:48 pm
ChatGPT imagines the vacant lot between the McAlester Building and the former Capri Apartments on South Jackson as a dog park. The AI program also freshens the Capri.
ChatGPT imagines the vacant lot between the McAlester Building and the former Capri Apartments as a dog park. The AI program also freshens the Capri.
ChatGPT imagines the vacant lot between the McAlester Building and the former Capri Apartments as a pocket park.
ChatGPT imagines the vacant lot between the McAlester Building and the former Capri Apartments as the location for a YMCA in Magnolia.
This is how the vacant lot in the 100 block of South Jackson appears today after a recent demolition.
ChatGPT imagines the vacant lot between the McAlester Building and the former Capri Apartments on South Jackson as a dog park. The AI program also freshens the Capri.
ChatGPT imagines the vacant lot between the McAlester Building and the former Capri Apartments as a dog park. The AI program also freshens the Capri.
ChatGPT imagines the vacant lot between the McAlester Building and the former Capri Apartments as a pocket park.
ChatGPT imagines the vacant lot between the McAlester Building and the former Capri Apartments as the location for a YMCA in Magnolia.
This is how the vacant lot in the 100 block of South Jackson appears today after a recent demolition.
If you could remake the appearance of Magnolia, what would it look like?
magnoliareporter.com has given over part of that task to the artificial intelligence program, ChatGPT.
We’ve provided ChatGPT several photographs of buildings and other locations in Magnolia, and asked it to re-imagine them as something else. magnoliareporter.com is offering the results in this Friday series.
Today, magnoliareporter.com and ChatGPT re-imagines the vacant lot between the McAlester Building and the former Capri Apartments in the 100 block of South Jackson. A dog park, pocket park or the location for a new YMCA or YWCA came to our mind as good fits for this property.
Last Friday, we re-imagined our own building, Reporter Mansion, at 120 N. Court Square. CLICK HERE to see it.
It should be noted that there are no plans to remake any of these locations into the new uses that we’ve suggested to ChatGPT. Ultimately, what happens with these buildings or land parcels is up to the people who own them, or who buy them for the fulfillment of their own visions.
magnoliareporter.com hopes to get discussions going as to what is possible in Magnolia and Columbia County if people act. Most of the suggestions will be serious ones. A few will be purposefully ridiculous or even controversial. In some cases, we’ll offer ChatGPT’s vision of worst-case or worse-use scenarios.
If you have specific buildings or places you’d like to see re-imagined, let us know. Email your ideas to news@magnoliareporter.com.
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