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2010 Centennial Plaza Developers' Summit

Most of what is today a 92-acre property was going to be the site of Mississippi’s 100th birthday celebration in 1917.

However, the land was given to the federal government during WWI for military training and the centennial celebration of statehood never happened.

It later became a veterans’ hospital.

Today, we call the treasured beachfront property Centennial Plaza. The surviving historic buildings, originally built for the centennial celebration, feature Spanish architecture.

In April, the Gulfport Redevelopment Commission will hold a developer’s summit to market our city to investors from around the country.

The goal is to find a developer willing to turn the old VA into Centennial Plaza, a thriving center of hotels, conventions, retail and commercial establishments, festivals and galas.

Gulfport VA Through the Years

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