MICD Hosts Alumni Technical Assistance in Moss Point. MS

March 2-4, 2009 – The Mayors’ Institute on City Design and Tulane Regional Urban Design Center (TRUDC) partnered to provide technical assistance to Mayor Xavier Bishop and the City of Moss Point, Mississippi, through MICD’s Alumni Technical Assistance program. Mayor Bishop attended a special MICD Gulf Coast Recovery Regional session in 2007. At that time, the Mayor presented initial post-Hurricane Katrina plans for a downtown renewal program that concentrated residential and commercial activity downtown and along the river’s edge. During the recent MICD Alumni Technical Assistance program, the Mayor worked with a team of design professionals from TRUDC and Mississippi State’s Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, as well as Jeff Soule from the American Planning Association’s DC office, to refine his vision for Moss Point’s downtown master plan. The outcomes of this collaborative event were captured in the Mississippi press on March 5^th and March 18^th.

Participants included:

• City of Moss Point, Mississippi
• The Honorable Xavier Bishop, Mayor of the City of Moss Point, MS
• MICD Resource Team
• Ginette Bone, Professor, Tulane University School of Architecture, New Orleans, LA
• Marilyn Feldmeier, Professor, Tulane University School of Architecture, New Orleans, LA
• Grover Mouton, III, Director, Tulane Regional Urban Design Center, New Orleans, LA
• David Perkes, Director, Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, Biloxi, MS
• Jeff Soule, Director of Outreach & International Programs, American Planning Association, Washington, DC.
• Gulf Coast Community Design Studio – Mississippi State University – Biloxi, Mississippi
• Stephen Crim, Christine Gasper, Britton Jones, RLA, Seth Welty
• Tulane Regional Urban Design Center – Tulane University – New Orleans, Louisiana
• Nick Jenisch, Robert Bracken, Royce Gracey, Kevin Muni, Sim Ward.
• American Architectural Foundation
• Elizabeth Blazevich, Special Projects Manager