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1 I established 1699 RESTORE Project # Point Cadet Revitalization from the Highway 90 Bridge to the Corridor along the Back Bay of Biloxi $35,000,000 requested Summary Multi-use improvements to support the seafood and maritime industries, create jobs, enhance and restore natural resources and expand family-oriented attractions to extend visitors' stay on the Mississippi Gulf Coast will be provided through this project. Development of a Back Bay Festival Market Place and recreational marina at the site of the S. Canaan Fishing Docks will support additional boat slip rentals and will offer venues for restaurants, retail shops and may include a sailing school and a facility for culinary arts workforce training that focuses on Gulf seafood and locally-grown products. Shrimping boats will be relocated east to a commercial marina to be constructed on property to be acquired by the City to improve commercial boat access to Gulf channels. Convenient off-loading areas, boat-building and repair areas, marine services and net repair areas will support commercial boat activities. Pedestrian walkways will link these two activity hubs and other points of interest in the project area, including the proposed Pine Street Waterfront Access Road and Maritime Commerce Corridor that will extend and improve Pine Street from 5th Street south to Highway 90. This project also includes storm-resilient shoreline stabilization measures, significant marine debris removal, and pedestrian access improvements to expand public access to a unique area where the Mississippi Sound merges with the Back Bay of Biloxi. Educational signage will allow residents and visitors to learn about marine and upland species and habitat supported by tidally-impacted areas and will encourage long-term stewardship of the Coast's natural resources. A copy of the full application follows.

2 '. ~ Making Mississippi Whole Point Cadet Revitalization from Highw... Project # 5399 Point Cadet Revitalization from Highway 90 Bridge to I-110 Corridor along the Back Bay of Biloxi '_.<, I ','I,"; -.. ~:, 1,''. September : Q ni I \ o.~ 0.0!5 1.3 kn'i Sous:tlc Ea1t ~ CllLCIH. llltml;i. ic:r.:1!11 P CO'P. G!GCO 1.SCS.!'AO.!C'S. llltc'l'l Qea!IJll. IGJll. Ul-t IL. OC::ISIW SWt'1 General Information Organization City of Biloxi Contact Name Gerald Blessey, City Attorney Address P.O. Box 429, Biloxi, MS Phone gblessey@biloxi.ms.us,-4.,,.,,. I!-....., Page1/B

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3 ~ Making Mississippi Whole Point Cadet Revitalization from Highw... Organization Website Description This comprehensive project will revitalize waterlront areas of East Biloxi from the Highway 90 Bridge north and west to the I-110 Corridor through multi-use improvements to enhance and restore natural resources, create jobs, support the seafood and maritime industries, and expand family-oriented attractions to extend visitors' stay on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Throughout the project area, the City will provide safe, convenient public access to the shoreline and will enhance traditional working waterlront activities with a variety of land uses that showcase local seafood through shopping, dining, entertainment, and educational venues. RESTORE grant funds will be used as part of a public investment strategy to yield a long-term increase in value by revitalizing the Back Bay shoreline east of the I-110 Corridor and adjoining Old Biloxi neighborhoods by enhancing public access to the waterfront and revitalizing the seafood industry through public improvements that will include expanded commercial dock space and supportive landside amenities. The project will include incentives to diversify the regional seafood industry through development of such things as a soft-shell crab aquaculture program. Redevelopment of the project area, as well as of the local seafood industry, has been particularly slow following its devastation by Hurricane Katrina. The Back Bay Festival Marketplace and recreational marina component of the overall project will be located at the site of the Sherman Canaan Fishing Dock, which includes approximately 15 City-owned acres at the north end of Lee Street. This public waterlront area will be reconfigured to offer a marina with recreational boat slips for temporary and long-term rental (for private and for-hire vessels); venues for retail shops and restaurants; a sailing school; and space for Mississippi Department of Marine Resources boating safety lessons and boating storage/operation. The market place will include an open-air kitchen area to showcase local seafood and to educate the public about seafood cooking methods and opening oysters, as well as facilities for workforce training in culinary arts that focuses on Gulf seafood and locally-grown/raised products. Shrimping boats currently berthed at the Sherman Canaan Fishing Dock will be relocated east to a new commercial marina that will be constructed on previously-developed property to be acquired by the City in the vicinity of Oak Street. This new marina will improve commercial boat access to Gulf channels and will offer landside improvements such as convenient off-loading areas, boat-building and repair areas, marine services and net repair areas. Pedestrian walkways will link these two activity hubs to each other and to other points of interest in the project area, including the National Register, City-owned Old Brick House and the Bayou Auguste Restoration Project, which involved a local, state and federal partnership effort to convert a neglected urban bayou into a beautiful 12-acre park. The Pine Street Waterlront Access Road and Maritime Commerce Corridor will extend and improve Pine Street from sth Street south to Highway 90, concurrent with implementation of the City project to extend Back Bay Boulevard from Oak Street southeast to Pine Street and then south to 5th Street with funding assistance provided through the Mississippi Development Authority's Economic Development Highway Program. The improved Pine Street will be a four-lane, divided boulevard for greater safety and aesthetic appeal. Debris removal, storm-resilient shoreline stabilization measures and pedestrian access improvements along public waterlront property from the Biloxi Fishing Bridge south to and under the Highway 90 Bridge will expand public opportunity to access a unique area where the Mississippi Sound merges with the waters of the Back Bay of Biloxi. The project will enhance preservation of undeveloped shoreline for the benefit of the public as well as for marine and bird species. In addition, low impact all-weather educational signage will expand opportunities to learn about habitat supported by tidally-impacted areas and to encourage long-term stewardship of Coastal natural resources. Pedestrian access will be extended underneath. the Highway 90 Bridge to connect the Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum, the Waterlront Park and Biloxi Fishing Bridge with Point Cadet's southern waterlront area that includes the Point Cadet Marina Complex, the proposed shuttle to Deer Island, casinos and the Biloxi Schooner Pier Complex. With installation of a proposed Highway 90 crosswalk near the Schooner Pier Complex, pedestrians will have the option to walk north to the Tricentennial Park and the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum or to continue west to the Biloxi Small Craft Harbor and downtown. This pedestrian connectivity will expand small business opportunities along the waterlront as well as improve access to family-oriented attractions. Additional capital improvements at the Waterfront Park north of the Page2/8

4 ~ Making Mississippi Whole Point Cadet Revitalization from Hig hw... Highway 90 Bridge, such as extending a small sand beach east of the Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum, building a shoo-fly, gazebo, a fountain, a foundation for installation of the Golden Fisherman statue and an outdoor public area for wooden boat-building and training demonstration activities near the Museum, will increase the public's enjoyment of this natural area. Once marine debris has been removed, construction of a small pier will expand recreational fishermen's opportunities to fish and crab and offer an alternative to wade fishing, which is popular in this area. Restoring natural resources along the oak-lined Back Bay shoreline and along the eastern shoreline of Point Cadet will be a primary activity of the comprehensive project, which will include removing marine debris and nonnative/invasive plants, installing appropriate native marsh plant species to restore habitat and living shoreline improvements to increase community resiliency. ADA-compliant, low impact, lighted pedestrian boardwalks and bike paths will support alternate modes of travel along scenic Bayview Avenue from Lee to Oak Streets and along the new Pine Street Waterfront Access Road to Highway 90. Educational signage will be installed at key vantage points to update the public about the living shoreline project at Big Island that is proposed for funding through NRDA Phase IV. Best management practices will be used throughout the project area to enhance stormwater management, to improve water quality in the Back Bay and to promote resilience and sustainability. The comprehensive project goal is to improve public access to waterfront commercial, industrial and recreational venues in East Biloxi thereby stimulating the economic growth of existing marine-related commerce, such as the shrimp boat off-loading docks at St. Michael's Fuel and Ice Dock on Biloxi Bay at the foot of sth Street. Improved access also will stimulate redevelopment of East Biloxi through new business start-ups and the expansion of tourism and recreational waterfront amenities. Location Information Location: The project area is located east of the I-110 Corridor in the City of Biloxi, along the Back Bay of Biloxi shoreline to Oak Street, south along the proposed Pine Street Extension, and including the Point Cadet shoreline area from the Biloxi Fishing Bridge to and under the Highway 90 Bridge. Harrison County, MS State: Mississippi County: Harrison Watershed: Latitude: Longitude: Page3/8

5 c... ~ Making Mississippi Whole Point Ca~et Revitalization from Highw... Project Activities, Habitats, and Resource Benefits Activities: - Community Resilience - Conservation Easements - Debris Removal - Economic Development -Education - Stewardship - Infrastructure - Land Acquisition - Maintenance/Management - Monitoring -Outreach - Protection - Public Access - Recreation - Research and Education - Restoration - Seafood - Small Business -Tourism - Water Quality -Workforce Development Habitats: - Upland - Marine/Estuarine Wetlands - Beach/Dune -Subtidal Resource Benefits: - Marine Mammals - Shellfish - Birds - Sediment/Benthos - Reptiles and Amphibians -Shoreline -Fish -Vegetation -Human Use Listed species this project will benefit: Y~, educational signage located throughout the project area will benefit state- and federally-listed species by expanding the public's knowledge about and awareness of the need to conserve marine species as well as all of the natural resources of the Gulf of Mexico. Page4/8

6 ~ Making Mississippi Whole Point Cadet Revitalization from Highw... Project Status Property/Resource Acquisition: In Progress Project Planning/Design: In Progress Project Permitting: In Progress Time to Implementation: 7-12 months Time to Project Completion: 1-5 years Time to Monitor: 1-5 years Project Proposal Date: Included under the following plan: Conservation of Coastal waterfront areas and restoration and enhancement of wetlands are included in the Mississippi Coastal Program Plan. Project Costs Estimated Cost: Funding Available:.oooo % ofbudgetdedicated to infrastructure: Parblers Organization Contact Involvement MS Secretary of State Delbert Hoseman Coordination of Tidelands leases MS Department of Marine Resources Jamie Miller, Executive Director Technical and permitting assistance; input into development of content for educational signage and exhibits; assistance monitoring shoreline restoration activities Page5/8

Back Bay Marketplace & Marinas (2012 aeria) DISCLAIMER: Any user of lhls map product accepts Its faulls and assumes all responsibility for lhe use thereof, and l'urther agrees to hold The City Biloxi

7 Back Bay Marketplace & Marinas (2012 aeria) DISCLAIMER: Any user of lhls map product accepts Its faulls and assumes all responsibility for lhe use thereof, and l'urther agrees to hold The City Biloxi harmless from and against any damage, loss or liabillty arising rrom any use of the map product. Users are cautioned to consider carel'ully Iha provisional nature of Iha maps and deta before using it for decisions 1hat concern personal or public safety or lhe conduct or business Iha! Involves monelary or operational consequences. Conclusions drawn from, or actions undertaken, on lhe basis or such maps and dala, are 1he sole responsibility of the user.. inch = 463 feet June 22, l, c::===:j... c::==::::jfeet

Sherman Canaan Back Bay Fishing Dock (formerly Lighthouse Fishing Dock) at north end of Lee Street in City of Biloxi The City of BUoxi owns approximately 15 acres at this location on Back

8 Sherman Canaan Back Bay Fishing Dock (formerly Lighthouse Fishing Dock) at north end of Lee Street in City of Biloxi The City of BUoxi owns approximately 15 acres at this location on Back Bay, which currently provides 32 berthing spaces, ranging from 50 to 100 feet, for the local and regional shrimping fleet. Landside improvements intlude a harbor master building and restrooms.

9 Pine Street BILO><.' BAY ft ~" ~v v~ '1J<J" V"" Dee1 1-:.J.:ind DISCLAIMER: Any user ol!his map product accepts tts faults and assumes all responsibiltty for lhe use thereof, and rurther agrees lo hold The Ctty Biloxi harmless from a nd against any damage, loss or liabiltty arising from any use ol the map product. Users are cautioned loconsider carerully lhe provisional nature of lhe maps and data before using it for decisions!hat concern personal or public safety or the conduct ol business!hat involves monetary or operational con sequences. Conclus1ons-drawn!Tom. or adlons undertaken, on lhe basis or such maps and data, are lhe sole responsibll tty of the user. 1 inc.. ~ = 852 feet June 21, ,380 l,840 MM Feet

10 PC Shoreline, approx. 620 linear ft. (2012 aerial base map) DISCLAIMER: Any user of this map product accepts Its faults and assumes all responsibility for the use thereof, and further agrees to hold The City Biloxi hannless from and against any damage. loss or liabillty arising from any use of the map product. Users are cautioned to con sider carefully the provisional nature of the maps and data befo re usi ng It for decisions that concern personal or public safety or the conduct of business that Involves monetary or operationa l consequences. Conclusions drawn from, or actions undertaken, on the basis of such maps and data, are the sole responsibillty of the user. June 25, inch = 23 1 feet c::::::c:::::::::: CC::::::C:::::::=iFeet

Public access to the City-owned Tidelands area on the Point Cadet shoreline, between the Fishing Bridge and recently-opened Waterfront Park, is impeded by large, broken pieces of concrete and other

11 Public access to the City-owned Tidelands area on the Point Cadet shoreline, between the Fishing Bridge and recently-opened Waterfront Park, is impeded by large, broken pieces of concrete and other debris as well as with overgrown invasive and non-native plants and shrubs. By removing the debris and inappropriate plants, installing natural shoreline stabilization measures and a designated walkway for waterfront access, the public will be better served and the Tidelands area restored.

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