Here is a list of Tidelands applications submitted by the City of Biloxi, as of Dec. 12, 2015, to be considered by the state Legislature in its January session, for Fiscal Year 2017.
West Biloxi Festival Boardwalk and Boat Ramp
$3 million requested
This project would create a beachside, ADA-compliant boardwalk south of the collection of restaurants and other tourism-related businesses on the stretch between Rodenberg and Camellia. The boardwalk would connect open-air pavilions at the foot of Veterans Avenue and Camellia Street, and a new boat ramp at Camellia. The boardwalk would feature benches, informational kiosks and public parking added at intervals, to accommodate festivals and other outdoor events. Total cost of the project would be $6 million, with $3 million funded from other sources.
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Improved public access and shoreline stabilization at Point Cadet
$500,000 requested
The project would include an ADA-compliant boardwalk to connect the existing walkway at Biloxi Waterfront Park to the Point Cadet fishing bridge. The project would provide improved, safe access to the waterfront for visitors, fishermen and would be complemented by all-weather educational signage about native plants and migratory birds.
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Pine Street waterfront access road and marine commerce corridor
$2 million requested
This funding would complement state and federal funding to create a four-lane, divided boulevard that would connect Back Bay Boulevard to U.S. 90 by extending Pine Street. The roadway improves access to an area that is proximate to waterfront seafood businesses and other seafood-industrial sites, as well as tourism and recreational waterfront sites.
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Back Bay market place and marinas
$2 million requested
This project would see the waterfront from I-110 to Oak Street become home to a new recreational marina at the Sherman Canaan Back Bay Fishing Dock and the existing shrimping fleet at the Canaan docks relocated to a new commercial marina near Oak Street. The sites, which are near the National Register Old Brick House, and the ongoing Bayou Auguste Restoration Project, would be linked by low-impact, ADA-compliant and lighted pedestrian pathways, boardwalks and bike paths that would run from Bayview to Lee and Oak streets. At the Sherman Canaan marina and recreational site, on 15 acres of city-owned land, visitors would find an open-air kitchen to showcase local seafood and educate the public about seafood cooking methods, or see oysters opened, or take part in culinary workforce training. The market place also would have venues for retail shops, restaurants, a sailing school and space for Mississippi Department of Marine Resources safety classes. The Back Bay area project would also incentivize regional seafood industries, such as soft shell crab aquaculture program.
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Tricentennial Park Public Access Improvements
$750,000 requested
This project would include uniform landscaping, lighting, irrigation and walkways on a prime piece of oak-filled property that is near the schooner pier and just east of the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art. The property is on land the city purchased in 1999 with the thought of creating a Tricentennial Park, commemorating the 1699 founding of Biloxi. The project would include relocation of the Tricentennial mural from downtown, as well as music shell/gazebo to accommodate concerts and other outdoor events, which would take advantage of a setting that offers an unobstructed view of the Mississippi Sound and Deer Island. Additional parking would be added at the northeast section of the site, and a pedestrian crosswalk would provide easy access to the schooner pier, nearby Kuhn Street boat launch and beachfront.
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Biloxi Small Craft Harbor Expansion
$2 million requested
This project proposes to expand the Biloxi Small Craft Harbor by 60 slips to the west, and re-configuring slips to accommodate all of Biloxi’s charter boat fleet. The expansion to the west would make the harbor, currently lodged behind the Hard Rock parking garage, more visible to visitors and make it more accessible and inviting. Renovations to the harbor would include additional restrooms; facilities to weigh, display and clean fish; a staging area for sports fishing tournaments and other marine-related events; space for off-the-boat seafood sales; and retail sales of ice and other supplies that support the charter fishing industry. The new harbor would be part of a broader plan to link Central Beach to Point Cadet, to join the Town Green, Vieux Marche, Tricentennial Park, the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, the schooner pier, Harrah’s Great Lawn, St. Michael’s Catholic Church, the Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum, Point Cadet Plaza, and the Point Cadet Fishing Bridge.
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Public access improvements and Point Cadet Marina Improvements
$2 million requested
This project involves constructing an ADA-compliant, waterfront boardwalk south of the Biloxi Bay Bridge, where the state fishing pier and the shoreline boardwalks have remained in disrepair and derelict since Hurricane Katrina. This project would see sediment removed from Point Cadet Marina and the waterfront dredged to accommodate deeper-draft recreational vessels. Low-profile, all-weather signage along the boardwalk would educate the public about native marine species and migratory boards.
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Point Cadet Marina expansion and public boardwalk
$2.5 million requested
This project would see the expansion of Point Cadet Marina about 500 feet to the west, toward the Casino Magic site. The expansion would provide new slips to meet the market of 75-foot and longer recreational vessels and sport fishing yachts. The expansion would include an ADA-compliant public boardwalk, with long-term plans to extend to Oak Street. The boardwalk would include open-air pavilions, lighting, educational signage and a docking area to support the proposed Deer Island ferry.
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