By: Mary Perez
Article Posted Friday January 9, 2009
Biloxi - Another site could be rezoned for a possible casino. The Biloxi Planning Commission on Thursday unanimously approved the request to rezone 4.46 acres on Fifth Street, from heavy industrial to waterfront.
The proposal now goes to the City Council.
“this parcel alone is not sufficient to build a casino on,” said project attorney Michael Cavanaugh, but combined with other properties it could be a casino site. The parcel is within 800 feet of the mean high-water line but doesn’t have access to the water’s edge which would be required for it to become a legal site.
The land is owned by T Mothers Development Companies of Gulfport, and Cavanaugh said the principal is Thomas Brosig, co-founder and former president of Grand Casinos. Cananaugh said he is in discussions with neighboring property owners, including the Sims famil, owners of the Havana Casino site.
Shortly before Hurrican Katrina in 2005 the Mississippi Gaming Commission approved the 10-acre site for a $250 million Havana Casino resort for Las Vegas-based Onnam Entertainment Inc. The site is north of the new Palace Casino.
It is the former site of LaValley Industrial Plastics, destroyed by Katrina. Commissioner Joe King said he was in favor of getting rid of the industrial zoning for waterfront zoning that allows casinos.
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