Katrina and Mississippi

[Xander67]

Figured I would start a separate thread to discuss Gulfport and Biloxi....


With all the casinos shut down , the state of mississippi is looseing an estimated $500,000 a day in tax revenue...

under the state law, the casinos have to be on water in order to be granted a liscense...

Maybe now the state will reconsider Land based casinos and in the future they will be allowed to rebuild further inland???

It takes generally 2-3 years from the time they break ground untill the first day of operations for a land based property... the Barge Properties could see re opening possibly
by the fall 2006.... as far as jobs, I am guessing that the employees could start returning to work by JAn- March?

what that means is that The state probably wont see any tax revenue for several months...
and they need that money desperatly, that money is what helps the school systems and hospitals

[narleymarley03]

We lived in Gautier across the bridge from Biloxi some years ago. MS is a very poor state and I'm sure when the casinos came it really helped alot with the state budget for schools, jobs, etc. Also, the casinos were a tourist draw. When we lived there I was told that Biloxi had been somewhat of a tourist area before "Camille". I hope they can recover faster than they did from "Camille".

[Xander67]

Im sure the barges will be up and running within a few months, most of them, but a few were in bad shape...

[narleymarley03]

But will tourists come with the rest of the area in such disrepair?

[~*Ginger*~]

Actually, from what I've heard, the majority of them are heaps of rubble.
Only one was really left standing, and it's being consider a total loss.
They plan to re-build as land based.
They are suppose to tear everything down, and then re-build the coast line were they took up occupancy, leaving it as good or better than they found it before the casinos were built.

A friend of my sister's works for Chaquita Banana, and he told us that one of the casino's had landed on top of the Chaquita Banana building.
(I don't remember which one...)

And that one of the casinos had set up in the Biloxi coliseum. (seems like they said The Grand, but I'm not swearing to that...)

I haven't heard any more than that, other than the Beau Rivage has had some type of meeting, and the folks on their way to it, figured that they would all be layed off from work. Some planning to attend college full-time, now.

[~*Ginger*~]

Ok, some corrections here...
(I talked to the guy today)

The Copa landed on top of the Chiquita Banana building.
The President is set up in the Biloxi coliseum.
And The Grand sits in the middle of what's left of Hwy. 90

He said, other info can be searched for @ MSNBC.


Actually, from what I've heard, the majority of them are heaps of rubble.
Only one was really left standing, and it's being consider a total loss.
They plan to re-build as land based.
They are suppose to tear everything down, and then re-build the coast line were they took up occupancy, leaving it as good or better than they found it before the casinos were built.

A friend of my sister's works for Chaquita Banana, and he told us that one of the casino's had landed on top of the Chaquita Banana building.
(I don't remember which one...)

And that one of the casinos had set up in the Biloxi coliseum. (seems like they said The Grand, but I'm not swearing to that...)

I haven't heard any more than that, other than the Beau Rivage has had some type of meeting, and the folks on their way to it, figured that they would all be layed off from work. Some planning to attend college full-time, now.

[Flar's Freyja]

Coastal Cities of Mississippi in the Shadows (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/national/nationalspecial/12gulf.html?th&emc=th)

"If the levees had held in New Orleans, the destruction wrought on the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina would have been the most astonishing storm story of a generation. ......"