The Mudcat Report: Mississippi Gulf Coast Community News & Guests
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HOST: Hunter Dawkins - Owner/Publisher of the award-winning newspaper - The Gazebo Gazette, SuperTalk Mississippi News contributor, Congressional Staffer, Public Relations for the Attorney General's Office
The Mudcat Report: Mississippi Gulf Coast Community News & Guests
The Mudcat Report Episode 14: City of Biloxi
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The Mudcat Report Episode 14: City of Biloxi
HOST: Hunter Dawkins - Owner/Publisher of the award-winning newspaper - The Gazebo Gazette, SuperTalk Mississippi News contributor, former Congressional Staffer, former Public Relations for the Attorney General's Office
PRODUCER: Jeff Clark - Award-Winning Journalist, Multimedia/Podcast Host, Director for the Harrison County Senior Services
GUESTS:
- Kenny Glavan - President & Ward 6 of the Biloxi City Council
- Nathan Barrett - Harrison County District 5 Supervisor, former longtime Biloxi City Council member
Welcome to the Mudcat Report, community news, politics, and culture with a local twist. Here's your host, owner and publisher of the Gazebo Gazette, Hunter Dawkins.
SPEAKER_10Good afternoon. My name is Hunter Dawkins, the host of the Mudcat Report, the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community News Podcast. This is the 14th episode sponsored by the Gazibo Gazette, Harrison County Independent Newspaper, the Beauravage Resort and Casino in Biloxi. Joseph Kelly, attorney at law, O'Duire Realty Agent, Stephanie Makowitz, who we'll talk with in just a minute. And we're always in the U.S. Marine Inc. Studio. I'm here with the wonderful producer of the show, Jeff Clark. My good friend Jeff is a well-accomplished award-winning journalist and a director of the Harrison County Senior Services. How are you, my friend?
SPEAKER_09Doing well, Hunter. Just uh getting through Easter, man. We've had a had a great day. It's been a great week. Uh just just rolling, man. Just exhausted. A lot of egg hunts, a lot of mass, a lot of a lot of services at uh St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church and Long Beach, just a lot going on. Um very excited about our topic today, and that's uh about the city of Biloxi.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, you know, I've definitely had some good guests on Jeff. You know, the city of Biloxi has been, you know, something to to me when I was growing up that was always, you know, the the mystery city. It was always had that that aura about it, and it always you know made me interested in just going there. They always had the really cool stuff, the mall, the coliseum, the could now the casinos. I mean, it's it's always something that I really feel uh you know really good about going there because it was it had that that good aura. And now, especially with the baseball stadium, good restaurants, good food, good people.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, man. You know, when I when I was growing up in North Mississippi, it was a vacation spot for us. Like we'd come down in the summer and stay at the uh Buena Vista Hotel and go to Wetwilly's or Slippery Sam's or you know, all that stuff. And uh, you know, I'd I'd go to one of the souvenir shops to buy Captain's hat, but you know. I do think that like Bilexi, it's hard to say this, but like Bilexi's never gone away, and Bilexi's always been a thing, and historically, I mean it's it's you know, old Bilexi, it's all of that, but like it's also going, it's coming back, and it's also going through a renaissance period now. Would would you agree with that? That it, although it never went away, it's making a comeback.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, you know, and I think as well, because you've seen as we talk about culture on this this show too, the culture of Biloxi is really so great. I mean, there's it's a seafood culture, but it's uh a different uh different uh cultures across the the world, Vietnamese, uh uh Slovakian, I mean a a uh Polish, you know, a lot of these different uh individuals can all came together in this city and really uh put together something good. And it's a it's a great, it's a a tourist city, of course, as especially as uh you know one of my good friends, Mayor Fofo Gillich would say, but it's uh something that's a uh unique uh creator of of a culture, and it's something that uh that the people I think in general really like to be down here.
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SPEAKER_04Uh I would say there's a lot to know. Indeed, purchasing a home as a primary residence as a process or even as an investment, but there is a definite checklist for first-time home buyers.
SPEAKER_10What's the checklist? Tell me about that.
SPEAKER_04So the first one the checklist is have you prepared your personal and employment documents? And then you're asking a bank, write a half your W-2s and your uh possibly your tax return depends on what you're doing. Um if you don't have those documents, you can't get the pre-approval. So if I want to write an offer on your house and my client doesn't have a pre-approval, I'm dead in the water. I'm dead in the water. I am not supposed to submit an offer without a pre-approval. That is just the seller's not going to respect it. The second thing on the checklist is you kind of want to avoid changing jobs. Like, let's just pretend, let's just say your wife's a nurse.
SPEAKER_10Wow, that sounds pretty good.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, she makes good pay. So uh we don't want to hurt her in the process if she gets a better offer to make more money at a different hospital. She's like, Well, I want to buy this house, but I don't want to change jobs, but I've got this opportunity to get more pay. Well, it's different for her because she's a nurse, she wants to change hospitals, right? That's a jump line. And she can still buy a house. We don't have to wait until she's been at the job here. She's taken a better job in the same field. What is usually required is a 30-day letter. She's been with us 30 days over here at this new hospital. The center is awesome, and we continue to employ her. When she's been at the new job 30 days, we continue with our loan process. You can still buy the house you originally wanted. Does that make sense? Um, probably the last couple things on the list is the zone. Where do you want to buy? It's not our job as a realtor to steer to steer you. And if you like to have a cow and you don't want to give up your cow, so you want to be a little more rural. Um, I need to know that. Let your agent know what you want. Maybe we can't get it all. But if you want to be rural, you might get zero-down USDA zone. So you got no down payment requirement. The final checklist item. You need to have this thing called closing costs. And some people might laugh right now and say, of course, I'm not a closing cost. But there are a lot of first-time home buyers, and even some of my repay buyers who don't realize closing costs have gone way up in the last three years. So have $5,000 set aside, expect $10,000 or more in closing costs for attorneys, and loan fees. That's that can be $10,000 or more. But if you've got half of that set aside, I, as the realtor, will fight to get the seller to give you a credit for the other half. It can be part of negotiating it into the price and turn into a win-win, if that makes sense.
SPEAKER_10Sounds like to keep it simple, they need to ask a realtor about this checklist. If you would like Stephanie to help you determine your next steps, call today at 228-563-0471. Or call her at the office and ask for Steph at 228-452-4242. Steph has the latest information to help you get through the process with a reasonable expectations again. That's 228-563-0471 to speak direct with Stephanie. I would like to welcome our first guest, Ward 6 and president of the Biloxi City Council, Kenny Glavin. Kenny, you have a unique background being a member of the Mississippi and Lodging Association, Biloxi Main Street, Biloxi Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, the Slavic Benevolent Association, the Elks Lodge, and a little bit of everything. Mr. President, do these being members of all these organizations, talk to me about the the unique stamp this these each one of these organizations provides for the city of Biloxi.
SPEAKER_08Wow, uh that that's good, that's quite a list there. Uh when you start hearing it. Listen, I've been born and raised here, and uh, you know, there's a lot of family traditions. Uh and and I'll just point out on the Elks Club, uh, one of my uncles was Jimmy Ellis, and he got me involved uh with the Elks uh at a very young age. Uh I think I'm one of the uh oldest uh members in that club. And uh I remember when I first joined, I said, hey, there's a there's a a bunch of people here that have been doing this for a long time, and they do a lot of great work in in the community uh and and have a positive uh effect and it and it really uh that's one of the organizations that I look back on uh uh that influenced uh my appetite uh for engaging with my community, engaging with my fellow Biloxians and and making a difference. And I think it just uh went on from there. Um I mean you list the Rotary Club and you you list the Slavic Lodge, which is part of my heritage, and uh getting to learn the history of our forefathers and um you know that that's very important to be engaged with that. Um, you know, Keysler Air Force Base, I was an honorary commander not once, but twice, and getting to attend those meetings at the invite uh of the commander and sit in on uh some of the the the meetings with those men and women that uh took an oath to uh you know protect our nation. And um, you know, those are things that um that are very important and it's the very fabric of this community and many other communities uh that have similar organizations and initiatives, and uh I'm very proud of that. Mr.
SPEAKER_10President, talk to me about the purpose since you've been the president of this council, talk to me about there are a lot of concerning issues, but tell me under your mindset what you think are some of the most biggest priorities for this city council.
SPEAKER_08That's a great question because I think that's multifaceted. Um you you you start out with uh, you know, we're we're a community uh that's heavily based on tourism. Uh we want to grow the diversity of that. That's been an initiative uh ever since I got a 35-year tourism career, and we want to continue uh to see that diversity grow. Uh, I think you see it. Um uh you see family affordable attractions, uh, you see many events at our Coast Coliseum. Uh we just hosted uh Big Crawfish Festival recently. Uh they've been breaking records uh with their you know continued concerts, uh the uh statewide and regional organizations that they attract here. Uh we have um, you know, racetracks, uh NASCAR uh racetracks. We have uh you know the Shuckers uh uh are getting ready to host the Savannah uh Bananas uh franchise. And uh we just had a couple of colleges. Mississippi State had 6,000 people uh in attendance, and that spills over into other uh our economy, into our restaurants, into our retail, into uh you know, all the other things that uh people depend on for a living. And uh we have to keep that healthy. Uh that's that's one. Uh there's another thing that just recently happened uh with our oystermen. Uh I just saw the article the other day uh that our a judge kind of had a favorable ruling uh that we can preserve uh the uh oyster reefs uh for use for uh the fishermen locally here. And uh he just kind of said we shouldn't uh kind of privatize that. And uh I think that's important, that we preserve our our coast and our waterways and our our sound, our Mississippi Sound and those barrier islands uh for the enjoyment of our children and our families, and then the fishermen that continue to work hard uh to make a living off those uh you know Gulf waters.
SPEAKER_10You know, uh as you this is a segue for you, Ms. President, that Biloxi, as you said, it was a city built on tourism. What can the council provide to keep the city this way, but also take care of your local residents?
SPEAKER_08Yeah, well, I mean, the local residents depend on uh tourism. It it's uh the number one, number two uh employer here on the coast. Uh you know, so you have your bartenders and you have your front desk uh clerks and and you have uh you know that waitress uh that works in the restaurants, and then you have the uh supervisors and managers uh that depend on uh us keeping uh uh a viable, healthy uh tourism economy related economy. And uh so from you know the city standpoint, uh we want to uh keep that viable. Uh we want to continue, you know. I know I'm in Ward Six, uh the attractions tourism is mostly in Ward 1 and 2, uh, but I think collectively, and I'm certainly uh keeping my eye on the ball that uh it's not just about Ward Six, it's about helping the entire city, and that includes uh Ward 1 and 2 on coming back and thriving. And I think we're we're getting close to that. Um, you know, the infrastructure down in Ward 1 and 2, uh for many years, we we've been trying to piece all that together, and we're real close to finishing those infrastructure initiatives, and now we're moving into zoning and to bringing more residents uh down there, putting incentives in place uh with different zonings for uh developers to build and to get that uh area thriving. And and so I think that's the next big thing uh for Biloxi and the leadership is to make sure that area becomes very uh viable and alive. And and I think you see that a little bit happening.
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SPEAKER_10Mr. President, is there a division because of the the potential bond, you know, that the city is uh is talking about numbers here and there? Or is this just a social media issue that they're trying to build up?
SPEAKER_08No. Uh I think the criticism has been fair. Uh, you know, we debated it uh back all the way back when we were doing budgets. We talked about a $10 million uh necessary that might be necessary. And then when it came uh up on the council agendas and we talked we started putting these uh lists together on what are the needs in each of the wards, you know, that number exceeded uh $10 million. Uh and I mean there was talk of it going above $20, $25 million. And um, you know, so when the general public sees that, I think it was a a very uh I think the public uh needed to question it. I questioned it. I didn't support the $18 million. I thought it needed to be a lesser amount. Uh, and we'll see where that goes. But uh we each uh submitted the list to the administration, um, and then we have to uh prioritize those lists, and then we have to make sure uh financially that whatever that obligation comes to, we have the means to be able to pay that credit card. Uh, because that's basically what it is. This is the city's credit card. This is not the council's credit card. And we got to make sure those projects, you know, it's gonna be a 20-year bond at least, and we got to make sure any projects that we do uh that they're gonna last 20 years, it shouldn't be something that's gonna be uh have a five-year life or a 10-year life or less, uh, because that wouldn't be very smart.
SPEAKER_10Final question for you. I know you're a big sports fan, and I know you guys have been big behind the new Holloway sports complex. How is it the council working to fix some of the local concerns? Because I know there's quite a few concerns out there, plenty about the scoreboards and this, that, and the other. What are you guys working with with the administration to help see what's what can happen to fix it?
SPEAKER_08That's an excellent uh question. And again, I I applauded, I recognized uh the concerned citizens that uh created a petition of awareness for that. Uh we immediately rolled up our sleeves. Uh I kind of championed uh uh an initiative to get some mobile scoreboards in place. We have five or six of those that have arrived, or we're waiting for the other four or five to get here. Uh so we have an immediate uh solution uh to have scoreboards out there and for the grandmothers and the parents and the and the fans to enjoy. But kind of going deeper and and further with this, uh we're trying to strike that balance of attracting these weekend tournaments that are pretty big. We just hosted a 70-plus team tournament this past weekend. The economic impact is in the millions when you have that big of a tournament. And then just tonight and and Mondays and Wednesdays, we have league play with our local teams. And uh, this is our, you know, our grandkids and kids and nephews and nieces uh that are playing on those turf fields, and they feel like they're major leaguers. And um, we did the right thing in upgrading uh AJ Holloway Sports Plex. Uh it was a need in the community, it was a commitment and a promise when I got elected that I would champion uh you know initiatives that would be good for our youth. And um I'm proud of that accomplishment. I didn't do it alone. There were many, many people that assisted with this, and I'm so grateful for all of them, including the council, because uh when we were talking about the the enhancement, this is a five million dollar project. There were questions on why should we do this? And and I think very quickly they noticed that again, this wasn't a Ward Six initiative. This touches everybody, all the kids in their communities and all the um mothers and fathers and grandfathers and in the different wards. Their kids get to um play on Monday and and Wednesday night. And a lot of them play travel ball too. So these uh out of town teams that come and play our local teams, we get to see a high level of competition as well.
SPEAKER_10Well, Mr. President, we thank you very much for being on with us and tell everybody how they can get in contact with you if they need to ask you a question or anything as such.
SPEAKER_08Absolutely. I welcome that. Uh my my email address is kglavin uh at beluxie.ms.us. Um and at glaven is spelled G-L-A-V-A-N. Some people spell it with an I-N or an E-N. I just wanted to uh correct that. Uh you can go to the City of Biloxi uh website and you can access uh my information there. Uh you know, we all that all Biloxians have common initiatives and we want Biloxi to be better. And I invite anyone, contact me, contact your your councilman, and uh we're always going to work together to make tomorrow better than it was today. Thank you, sir. Thank you.
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SPEAKER_10Log on to thegazebo Gazette.com. Add your name to the digital audience of 250,000 plus Coast residents who already know where to find the stories that matter to them. Harrison County Board of Supervisors work together with the City of Biloxi on, if you don't mind telling me, Mr. Barrett?
SPEAKER_02Well, we um thanks for having me. Um we we work with all the municipalities under the um interlocal agreement. And we've partnered since I've been on the board. When I was on the council, we partnered with the county a lot under the interlocal agreement on projects. And currently, um now that I'm on the board of supervisors, we uh partner with Biloxi and all the municipalities under the interlocal agreement on multiple things from paving roads to um work in parks, uh, all kinds of projects throughout the city we partner on. Tell me this.
SPEAKER_10You know very well Biloxi is a tourist commodity, and the county has some control over certain, you know, buildings, certain spaces in the city of Biloxi, but also such as the beach and the Coast Coliseum. Tell me how events and other measures are regulated from that control.
SPEAKER_02Well, we try to work hand in hand with the city of Biloxi, especially on the sand beach. Um, while the the Coliseum uh is under the purview of the Board of Supervisors, they do have a board that runs that um that and a director that runs the Coliseum. And the board just basically approves their budget and um you know some transactional things. Um, but I believe that, you know, we're a good partner with the city of Biloxi on the sand beach. We try to work together on um everything that we do with the city, and um, you know, the city of Biloxi is responsible to from it for from every for everything up to the seawall, and then we're responsible from everything from the seawall down to the water. And so it's it's a it's a partnership with the city of Biloxi in that. And I believe also the Coliseum, while the Coliseum doesn't directly benefit the City of Biloxi because it is an entity separate from the city. The um the indirectly, the city of Biloxi does reap great benefits from the Coliseum, from you know, whenever there's people that rent the convention space, they bring in and literally rent hundreds of rooms midweek and spend money in our restaurants and our retail. And then when we have larger scale events, uh same thing with the Coliseum as far as concerts, the crawfish festival, things like that. And so while there's no direct benefit for the city from the Coliseum itself, the indirect benefits are massive for the city of Biloxi.
SPEAKER_10In your current position, how often do you personally work with the city of Biloxi to provide help? I mean, with councilmen, with the mayor, with everything to directly help for things they might need?
SPEAKER_02Well, uh, we talk um almost on a weekly basis about things. Um, we have partnered and paved multiple roads um in the city of Biloxi since I've been on um since I've been on the Board of Supervisors. We uh uh partnered on the scoreboards that Kenny was just talking about and uh committed to um to pay for half of those scoreboards that were just purchased, uh, the temporary scoreboards that um so that they had those available at the AJ Holloway Sports Complex. Um we have partnered in parks and recreation with the city of Biloxi, the Margaret Sherry Walking Track, for instance. It was in terrible shape. And uh we went our workers went in and completely redid that uh track. And so on multiple, multiple projects we have partnered. Um, as far as the Pops Ferry extension, the the county has committed uh a couple million dollars on that project, um, which is in the city of Biloxi, but it's you know also part of the county. And so um we we talk on a weekly basis. We may not have a project that we're funding on that week, but we talk about things on a weekly basis, um, you know, because City of Biloxi and the city of um Gulfport, while they're a municipality and they aren't in the outside of the city, you know, the unincorporated area, they do make up about 67% of the population in Harrison County. So they're a big part of the county. And um we we do a lot of projects with all five of the municipalities uh within Harrison County.
SPEAKER_10Talk to me about if you wouldn't mind, when you are part of the Biloxi City Council, uh talking about the Howard Avenue revitalization, if you wouldn't mind.
SPEAKER_02You know, that's um it's a it's a it's a great story to tell. And while it's not complete, there are some buildings that are taking much longer than what was anticipated. Whenever I first started in the council in 2017, uh Howard Avenue was it wasn't empty, but there were a lot of empty buildings and and things. But now if you drive down Howard Avenue uh from Lemieux Street or Main Street all the way to Porter Avenue, it's it's pretty full. There's not much vacancy there. And um, you know, we we did that through a lot of different um incentives um that was offered to to make that happen. And ultimately, I believe once a few other projects are um complete, it will it'll be, it's it's a great part of the the city. And whereas before it was basically a ghost town.
SPEAKER_10Are there any major concerns with roads or bridges in the city that the county has to get a little bit involved with?
SPEAKER_02Well, I think that that is one of our issues, not just in Harrison County or in Biloxi, but throughout the state of Mississippi. We have an infrastructure problem. And one of the reasons that we have an infrastructure problem is because I believe that in the past there has been a mentality of being reactive instead of proactive. And so instead of maintaining and upkeeping our roads and bridges, we've waited until they were in shambles and it put us and it puts us in a situation to where you have to completely redo something, and the cost of that is much more expensive than maintaining. And um, I believe that we have some leadership in place now that is trying to correct that and become more proactive instead of reactive. And the cost of infrastructure is just, you know, you know, until you're involved in it, you don't understand how astronomical the cost of infrastructure is. So that's one of the big hurdles that you have to overcome is infrastructure. Um, so yes, embiloxi and throughout the state of Mississippi, infrastructure is an issue. And I believe that the answer to that long term is to become proactive, more proactive instead of reactive in that instance.
SPEAKER_10Final question for you, and not so much a question. It was uh, you know, at the board meeting today, today is being Monday, uh, there was a little bit of discussion about the potential for some spring break activities happening uh in the near future. Is there any uh, you know, of course, I know the county doesn't necessarily have a lot to do with anything outside of the beach area. The city's more, you know, the the ones I guess in control, but is there some activity the sheriff or you know, Harrison County needs to be involved with?
SPEAKER_02Well, I'm um I'm pretty certain. I'm not uh 100% sure, but I'm pretty sure certain that our sheriff's um department is involved with spring break, helping the cities that um that takes place in, helping them manage that event and all events, such as cruising the coast, scraping the coast, Mardi Gras. Um, I believe that the Sheriff's Department is actively involved in that. And um, so yeah, yeah, I believe that that we are involved in any events that take place um in the city of Biloxi and any city that take that there are events for spring break.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, there does need to be uh like if there's any activity happening on the beach, which y'all are directly responsible for, then there has to be permits or um trying to.
SPEAKER_02Yes, there does, and and you know, um just I'm familiar with it because I came from the city of Biloxi on the council, and the city of Biloxi has um a special events permits that have to be in place, and so we can't permit an event on the beach unless there's a uh a permit in place for that same event in the city of Biloxi. Because because one one of the one of the problems you have is you can't get to the beach and there's no parking on the part that we manage, and so the city of Biloxi manages just north of that where all the parking is, wherever that may be. And so for a large-scale event to take place, the city of Biloxi would have to issue a permit first for them to be able to do a large-scale event on the beach. And so for us to be able to issue a large-scale permit, they would first have to go through the permitting process um with the city of Biloxi.
SPEAKER_10Well, Supervisor Barrett, that's great information. We really appreciate it. Is there any way that the uh locals can get in touch with you if you need?
SPEAKER_02Yes. Um, email is nbarrett at co.harrison.ms.us. Um, I'm on Facebook or I can be rate reached um on my cell phone and um I give my personal cell phone number out. It's 228-263-3000. Um, I try to be accessible to everyone and um answer questions the best of my ability. We thank you, sir. We appreciate you being on. I appreciate you having me. Have a great evening.
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SPEAKER_10We gratefully appreciate you listening to this podcast. And we thank you again, Jeff. It was a great show, and I think it's only getting better. And we had some really good guests, really talked a lot about you know the history and the culture and all the different you know items going on here to really help build the city of Bilexi.
SPEAKER_09Absolutely great guest. You know, it's hard to believe we're at episode 14 already. You know, one thing I want to say about the city of Bilexi, and this business uh is not a sponsor that uh it's nothing to do with that. It's just one of my favorite places, and that's Marley's music uh in downtown Bilexi. Great people, they have great vinyl selection. Just uh, you know, I I love going going downtown and going to Marley's music.
SPEAKER_10So absolutely, and you know, they have some of the best, the best places to eat, some of the best seafood, you know, uh some of the uh greatest places I like to just hang out at. Bo revage, who's one of our sponsors, and I'm not, you know, putting that out there because they're one of our sponsors, but I absolutely have always loved going out there. I love going to the baseball games, love going to the mall.
SPEAKER_09I love going to shows with the Beau Ravage, you know, uh the theater's so special. Uh we're we're big fans of Stala. It's a great restaurant, great Italian restaurant. Uh yeah, I mean the the the Bo for the Bo's a great place to like take your family for photos. They they have family, like we'll be talking soon about the show Shrek they're gonna have for families this summer. Uh they they do a lot of family stuff, and it's like it's a hidden gem of like Christmas photos, right? Like I know everybody likes to go to the Roosevelt and in New Orleans, and definitely there's good for good reason, but also you can go to the Beau Revage and just get amazing Christmas photos with your family, you know.
SPEAKER_10Right, that's right. And all you gotta do is just go through a little minor traffic, but of course you're driving down the beach to get there.
SPEAKER_09So driving down Highway 90 does not bother me at all. And you know, another place I love in Biloxi is Lee Bakery. Man, like how just I we're so fortunate and so lucky to have a Vietnamese bakery uh in Biloxi. It's incredible, you know.
SPEAKER_10Well, and you see the these these places, even though they've been through some some turmoil here in the past few years, but they you know, the Merry Mahoneys, your quality seafood, your uh all these different places that have these little inklings uh in Biloxi that uh really set the stamp. And they're really they're not going anywhere. Uh they're they're making successful, you know, pitches everywhere. And uh I really like that. And and of course, you know, down there by Cadet. Point Cadet is is a great one of the best places to go fishing, or you know, just having a party down there if if you get the permit, of course, and that's that's that's great.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, that's seafood museum's top-notch. You know, there's the Oro Keith Museum, there's so much, you know, Margaritaville's got a they have an amusement park now at their facility. You know, Bloxy's definitely uh a happening spot on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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