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Development Reflects History, Culture, Economy
The goal of the Biloxi Waterfront project is PROGRESS WITH PRESERVATION. The elements of the project will promote economic development in seafood and tourism, our traditional industries. The developments provide support for these industries: docking space for shrimp boats as well as tour boats, boat repair yards, open-air seafood markets, retail merchandising for visitors and boatmen, public access iO the water’s edge, seafood restaurants, piers for recreational fishing, ship supply stores, museums and aquaria and industrial sites for seafood processing.
This blend of commercial and recreational interests will preserve the history and culture of Biloxi while providing 1400 jobs.
As provided in the waterfront plan, the City Council has recently enacted into law a special waterfront zone at Point Cadet, an Architectural Review Commission, and a Neighborhood Heritage Advisory Board. These new laws will protect Biloxi’s old homes, buildings, and landscape while requiring all new waterfront construction to follow design guidelines that preserve this old Biloxi flavor.
Biloxi is a water town. We are a water people. Many residents work on the water. We like to have fun on or near the water. That’s why we have so many festivals and why we’re planning more-to celebrate this happy union of humankind and nature on the waterfront.
So come to work with us, have fun, and enjoy the festivities on the Biloxi Waterfront, where we have PROGRESS WITH PRESERVATION.
Mayor Gerald Blessey
CREDITS
Plan Sponsors:
The City of Biloxi
The Biloxi Port Commission
The Greater Biloxi Economic Development Foundation Consultants:
American City Corporation
Eskew, Vogt, Silvato and Filson, Architect/Plat nners Wink Engineering
Cashio, Cochran, Torre, Design Consortium N-Y Associates, Inc., Engineers Ransom Engineers
George Williams & Associates, Advertising
Fairley Engineering
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
Page, Mannino and Peresich, City Attorneys
Charles K. Pringle. Special Attorney
Major Funding:
Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation Bureau of Marine Resources
(This document was financed in part through a federal grant from the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended.)
Layout, Typography and Printing:
Southern Mississippi Planning & Development District
Prepared and published by the Point Cadet Development Corporation, Biloxi, Mississippi May. 1986
Schooners to be Built
Two master boatbuilders in Biloxi will undertake the tasks of spearheading teams to raise the funds and then build two “Ole Biloxi Schooners” for the Seafood Industry Museum.
Mayor Blessey made this special announcement along with boatbuilders Neil Covacevich and Bill Holland during the formal grand opening ceremony of the Seafood
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begin at 1 p.m. from the starting line in front of the new Point Cadet Marina, racing a triangular course to Ship
Island and back. As in days of old, the prize for the Biloxi Schooner race will be a keg of beer.
Wooden boatbuilding is a rare art in America, but the two boatbuilders in Biloxi will keep the art alive by designing and building these schooners. Each will be 50 feet long and no more than 17 feet at the beam. Sails will be made by the world famous Biloxi sailmaking families of Buckingham and Parker.
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years ago when thousands of tourists lined the seawall to watch.
“There will be no city money in this project," Mayor Blessey said. “This is strictly a volunteer community project.”
Persons can contribute to the two teams for as little as 5 cents for a nail or $25 for a plank in the deck, or even $1,000 for a tiller. The two highest contributors will get
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Seafood Museum Opens to a Large Crowd
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Seafood Museum Grand Opening
A crowd of over 5,000 attended the day-long celebration marking the grand opening of the Seafood Industry Museum at Biloxi’s Point Cadet on March 22, 1986. Essential to the preservation of Biloxi’s culture, the museum traces Biloxi’s development as a waterfront community through its oldest industry-seafood.
After years of planning by the Biloxi Seafood Industry Museum, Inc. Board and months of dedicated and diligent effort by museum director Dr. Val Husley and assistant Ginger Kirkpatrick, Mayor Blessey proudly opened the museum doors, unveiling hundreds of informative artifacts and displays reflecting Biloxi’s unique waterfront heritage.
The museum joins the Marine Education Center, Point Cadet Festival Plaza and Gulf Marine State Park as another public facility that will support and enhance the overall Point Cadet waterfront.
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