D'IBERVILLE, MA (AP) — Nearly $141 million in building permits were issued in the last fiscal year in D'Iberville and city officials say more construction is on the way.
"That's up at post-Katrina levels," Hank Rogers, the city's community development director, told The Sun Herald’s Mary Perez.
The biggest project on the list for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 is the Scarlet Pearl Casino. Mayor Rusty Quave said work is progressing toward the opening in December 2015.
A new Coast Transit center is also under construction in that area.
Quave said the elevation and insurance in the old town near the water has developers looking to build more multi-family, higher income housing near the casino and downtown, he said. If the city can get people back downtown, Quave said he thinks more development will follow.
Other large projects in the past year were the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Store that will open Nov. 5, the continued renovations at the Wal-Mart Supercenter, a $3.1 million city fire station, site work for Academy Sports, more stores at The Promenade, a Volkswagen dealership, a new building at Arbor View Apartments to replace the one that was destroyed by fire and 24 homes.
Construction continues on the Interstate 10-110 intersection, and Quave said crews seem to be ahead of schedule. Work will be completed next year.
People continue to shop and dine in D'Iberville, Quave said.
"Even through construction, our sales tax held in there," he said.
From January to August, sales tax diversions in D'Iberville are up 2 percent from a year ago.
