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Biloxi's Recovery Is Half of The Story
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Nov 24, 2007 10:40am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Sunday, November 25, 2007 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In Casinos' Shadow, Katrina's Mark Lingers
By Peter Whoriskey
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 25, 2007; Page A01
BILOXI, Miss. -- Nowhere has the rebound from Hurricane Katrina been gaudier than along Mississippi's casino-studded coast.
Even as the storm's debris was being cleared, this city's night skies were lighted up with the high-wattage brilliance of the Imperial Palace, then the Isle of Capri, then the Grand Casino. More followed, and so did vacation-condo developers.
Yet in the wrecked and darkened working-class neighborhoods just blocks from the waterfront glitter, those lights cast their colorful glare over an apocalyptic vision of empty lots and scattered trailers that is as forlorn as anywhere in Katrina's strike zone.
"At night, you can see the casino lights up in the sky," Shirley Salik, 72, a former housekeeper at one of the casinos, said this month while standing outside her FEMA camper with her two dogs. "But that's another world."
More than two years after the storm, the highly touted recovery of the Mississippi coast remains a starkly divided phenomenon.
While Gov. Haley Barbour (R) has hailed the casino openings as a harbinger of Mississippi's resurgence and developers have proposed more than $1 billion in beachfront condos and hotels for tourists, fewer than one in 10 of the thousands of single-family houses destroyed in Biloxi are being rebuilt, according to city permit records. More than 10,000 displaced families still live in trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. |
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