Gulfport Eight Months After Katrina-Empty Buildings

Gulfport Eight Months After Katrina-Empty Buildings: "Eight Months After Katrina Downtown Gulfport Mostly Empty Buildings
by Keith Burton - GCN 5/5/06

The streets are clean and the traffic is frequently heavy. At first glance, downtown Gulfport looks like the center of a thriving community. But looks are deceiving. Eight months after Hurricane Katrina, downtown Gulfport, which is just off the beach and Highway 90, is a center of mostly empty buildings. A ghost town with a crowd, as most of the traffic is just passing through, people going somewhere else."