Marina Plans Include Larger Ship Store, New Facilities

Plans for a new building adjacent to the current ship store call for two levels with new bathroom facilities, a dayroom and laundry facilities for live-aboards at the Gulfport Municipal Marina.

During Thursday's City Council workshop, City Manager Jim O'Reilly presented the list of capitol improvement plans to city councilors. Councilors will use O'Reilly's recommendations along with their own suggestions to help sculpt the operations budget for next fiscal year, which begins on October 1.

Thursday night, they had their first look at the recommended capitol improvement program projects, which includes spending more than $800,000 on marina enhancements.

Marina improvements listed include:

• ship store/amenities/facilities = $670,000
• long-term resident/transient/guest area = $45,000
• 10 boat lifts (at $20 each) = 100,000
• Live-Aboard Imps. = $40,000
• Marina Master Site Planning (phase 1) = $25,000

Total = $880,000

Thursday was a first look at several projects. They are slated to discuss the marina improvements at a special workshop on Tuesday, May 21. Councilors will have the opportunity to hear more from Harbormaster Denis Fran about the community's feedback at the Marina Master Planning charrette in February. 

Feel free to attend the workshop or contact councilors with your feedback about the future of the marina.

Contact Councilors:

• Mayor Sam Henderson: shenderson@mygulfport.us
• Ward 1 Dan Liedtke: dliedtke@mygulfport.us
• Ward 2 Christine Brown: cbrown@mygulfport.us
• Ward 3 Jennifer Salmon: jsalmon@mygulfport.us
• Ward 4 Michael Fridovich: mfridovich@mygulfport.us

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