Mississippi Coast Still Rebuilding 6 Years After Katrina
Slow, expensive process for area built on tourism and seafood industry
August 24, 2011
The newly built Biloxi Visitors Center overlooks the Gulf of Mexico.
A newly-built Southern mansion with tall white columns and a big porch overlooking the Gulf of Mexico is one sign Biloxi is rebuilding. It's the city’s new Visitors Center, which attracts local residents as well as tourists. Inside, a video tells of the hurricane that changed everything.
This slab foundation, remaining from a house destroyed by Katrina, is one of many still found along the coast.
Slow comeback
Rebuilding is a slow and expensive process for a city built on tourism and the seafood industry.
Mississippi’s other coastal cities faced the same challenge. The federal government provided $25 billion for the massive effort.
Gov. Haley Barbour said the initial focus was getting coastal residents back into their homes. “About $4 billion has been dedicated to housing. We will, when we’re through, have either rebuilt or built or repaired more than 50,000 units of housing on the coast.”
Reviving the waterfront
Another major project, using federal money, is the $570 million renovation of the state port facility in Gulfport. Barbour said elevating the port and its container terminals to seven and a half meters, or 25-feet above sea level will protect not just the shippers, but the community.
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