Interstate 10 is the commercial spine of the Gulf Coast. Foley, Daphne, Spanish Fort, and Gulfport all built their retail and hospitality corridors by capturing the traffic that I-10 delivers. Moss Point has direct frontage and open parcels ready for development. That combination is increasingly rare on the Gulf Coast.
The centerpiece is a new set of service roads, branded The River City Mile, running along both the north and south sides of I-10 to connect Exit 68 and Exit 69. The project is engineered and set to break ground in the coming months. When it opens, it creates developable interstate frontage on both sides of the highway where today there is only raw access, the rarest thing on the Gulf Coast: shovel-ready commercial land directly on I-10.
The River City Mile sits adjacent to the active Hwy 63 commercial growth zone, which already carries the anchor effect of Tractor Supply, the operating Cannon Toyota, Nissan, and Honda dealerships, a Ford store and a Raceway truck stop both under construction, and the cleared Chrysler-Dodge site. As Hwy 63 fills in, the new service road mile becomes the natural home for the next tier of interstate-facing commercial development.
A connected mile of interstate frontage with brand-new public road infrastructure does not exist anywhere else on this stretch of the coast. Hotel, fuel and convenience, dining, and retail operators that want true interstate visibility get it here at Mississippi land prices, with the city ready to put the right incentives behind each use type.
