Local Business Assistance
Community Development Department, City of Biloxi
Jerry Creel, Director
Mailing Address: Post Office Box 508
Biloxi, MS 39531
Street Address: 676 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
Phone: 228-435-6280
Email: jcreel@biloxi.ms.us
Biloxi Bay Chamber of Commerce
Susan Hunt, Director
Mailing Address: Post Office Box 889
Biloxi, MS 39531
Street Address: 693 Beach Boulevard
Phone: 228-435-6149
Email: info@biloxibaychamber.com
Biloxi Chamber of Commerce
Kimberly Nastasi Crim, Director
Mailing & Street Address: 1048 Beach Blvd.
(N. of Biloxi Lighthouse)
Biloxi, MS 39530
Phone: 228-374-2717
Email: info@biloxi.org
Gulf Coast Business and Technology Center
Adele Lyons, Director
Mailing & Street Address: 1636 Popp’s Ferry Road
Biloxi, MS 39532
Phone: 228-392-9741
Email: btc@datasync.com
Gulf Regional Planning Commission
Elaine Wilkinson, Director
Mailing & Street Address: 1232 Pass Road
Gulfport, MS 39501
Phone: 228-864-1167
Email: egw@grpc.com
Harrison County Development Commission
Bill Hessell, Acting Director
Mailing Address: Post Office Box 1870
Gulfport, MS 39501
Street Address: One Hancock Plaza, Suite 1105
Phone: 228-863-3807
Email: hcdc@mscoast.org
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Employee Local Business Assistance
Training
Resources
Mississippi Contract Procurement Center
Driven by the goal to Richard Speights, Director
diversify the local Mailing & Street Address: 1636 Popp’s Ferry Road
economy, the City of Biloxi, MS 39532
Biloxi continues to Phone: 228-396-1288
promote public Email: mprogoff@mspc.com
education
improvements and Southern Mississippi Planning and Development District
adult work force Leslie Newcomb, Director
training programs that Mailing & Street Address: 9229 Highway 49
will support the growth Gulfport, MS 39501
of high-tech jobs. Two Phone: 228-868-2311
nonprofits that offer
local employee training U.S. Small Business Administration, District Office
services are: Mailing & Street Address: Bancorp South Plaza
• Gulf Coast Business 2909 13th Street, Suite 203
Services Training Gulfport, MS 39501
Program Phone: 228-863-4449
Phone 228-897-1881
• Job Corps U.S. Small Business Administration, Small Business
Recruitment/ Development Center
Placement Office, Lucy Betcher, Director
Phone 228-388-7997 Mailing & Street Address: USM – Gulf Coast
Mississippi State 36 Beach Park Place
Employment Service Long Beach, MS 39560
Phone: 228-865-4578
The website
www.usworks.com/gulfcoastwin
The Gulf Coast Business and Technology Center hosts a 42,000 square foot incubator
provides the latest labor market facility designed to reduce small business’ operating costs through shared business support
data for local employers at no services such as postal metering and shipping; copy and fax machine access; reception,
telephone answering and janitorial services; and computer and Internet access in addition to
cost. Labor market data also is shared conference and warehouse space.
available at the Mississippi Operated by the Greater Biloxi Economic Development Foundation, the business
incubator is located in one of Biloxi’s fastest growing commercial corridors and is a
Employment Security cooperative economic development project of the City of Biloxi, Harrison County and
Commission’s website local businesses.
www.mesc.state.ms.us.
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