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Ocean Springs' Cottage Square leading the way with mixed-use development.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 15-DEC-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The group of cheerful-looking cottages with their white picket fences and welcoming front porches are making a statement about alternative living in Ocean Springs. Cottage Square is being developed on a two-acre plot on Government Street near downtown of this walkable town. Planners hope it will serve as a model for the new urbanism concept of mixed-use zoning and affordable housing. The cottages, built in a coastal style and painted pastel colors, are built to hurricane codes.

A lack of affordable housing remains an obstacle for the Coast's recovery three years a f t e r Hurricane Katrina.

Following the governor's Mississippi Renewal Forum in October 2005, New York designer Marianne Cusato responded with a dignified alternative to the FEMA travel trailer. From her design, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) had cottages built in three sizes as temporary housing.

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Ocean Springs architect Bruce Tolar is part of the...

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