Mississippi Gulf Coast

dcsnomo

Moderator
Part of the trip last week was along the Mississippi Gulf coast. Truly a beautiful stretch of America. Beaches were clean, although there were still cleanup crews working. Weird thing about the beaches is that there is nothing there! No funky restaurants, no seafood bars, no mom and pop hotels, no tacky t-shirt shops, no fishing piers...all gone...blown away I guess. The Katrina mess is cleaned up on the beach, but you see empty land with driveways where houses used to be, right on the waterfront. Pilings standing with no house, pilings going out into the water where piers were, but no piers, no boats, no tourists.

At Biloxi there are signs of life with the casinos, and if you go inland off the beach the towns have people (and still abandoned buildings) but this beautiful 24 mile long beach is just wide open. And empty.
 

luke_duke

Member
I was down there on a golf trip 2 years ago. Everything you said was the same thing I noticed. Property around there is amazingly cheap so I thought it would be a great opportunity for someone(not just the ocean front lots either). Did anyone buy the huge foundation that was put in for a new casino. When we were there, it was for sale. Gulfport/Biloxi were definitely hurting for money and tourists.

I found it sad that all the restaurants, bars, and seafood joints that used to be there are gone. Got a bunch of good information on the area from a cabby.
 

toolmaker

New member
My wife's boss is in the hotel building business. He has projects ready to go, but no banks are lending money for projects like this. Past investers are still holding onto their money for other needs. The banks need to loosen up to get some builing projects going.
 

whitedust

Well-known member
Yep Mississippi Gulf coast is very nice & was exactly as you say 2 years ago when I was there. A few foundations just sitting there no house or just the front steps & a slab with weeds growing in cracks. Katrina rolled in & Gulfport rolled out with the surge. Nice place to visit but looking at at the Gulf I had the feeling it could happen again so I would not buy or build there. They were plowing the white sand off the roads when I was there jsut like we plow snow. Does not take much to move that white sand around very lite stuff.
 
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