Local developers, bankers and builders will have a chance Friday morning to get answers from a team of federal authorities led by HUD’s chief of field policy management and the agency’s southeastern director.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is hoping for a good turnout during a informational session Friday from 9:30 a.m. to noon at Biloxi City Hall.
“HUD will have it’s A-Team here,” says Eddie Woodhouse of the federal agency. Among those attending the session will be Washington, D.C.-based Jo Baylor, HUD’s secretary for Field Policy Management; and HUD Southeast Regional Director Bob Young, who is also a former mayor of Augusta, Ga.
To read more about the conference, click here.
Grand Forks extends helping hand to Biloxi
Congressman Earl Pomeroy (D-ND), along with Grand Forks Mayor Mike Brown, will lead a group of Grand Forks’ community leaders to Biloxi, Mississippi on Friday.
During the visit the group will share valuable experience, gained during the 1997 flood of Grand Forks, with Biloxi city leaders as the city continues to recover from Hurricane Katrina
For more on the visit, click here.
Holloway tells gaming commission of unprecedented potential
Mayor A.J. Holloway told the Mississippi Gaming Commission and a standing-room-only audience of gaming executives that a post-Katrina Biloxi has potential “that we never dreamed of before.”
The gaming commission, which met this morning at the Imperial Palace in Biloxi, invited Holloway to present a status report about Biloxi’s ongoing recovery efforts.
“We have the spirit and the drive to build a bigger and better Biloxi, and one that we can all be proud of,” Holloway said before updating day-to-day recovery efforts.
“Some people say that Biloxi and the Mississippi Gulf Coast didn’t really rebound from Camille until 1992, when casino gambling was legalized. I think we have potential that we never dreamed of before.”
To read the complete text of the mayor’s remarks, click here.
To see the latest status on re-opening plans for Biloxi casinos, click here.
