Long Beach and the Surrounding Areas Business Directory

Hurricane Katrina washed ashore in South Mississippi in August 2005. In the devastating storm’s wake lay some of the greatest structural devastation from a natural disaster that has ever incurred in the country’s history. But amid the flooded ruins, hope found a way to float through the vision of several South Mississippi community and business leaders, organized as The Gulf Coast Business Council. The nonprofit group had the foresight to understand the key to the area’s recovery would be a unified effort focused on redevelopment. In mid 2006, the council created Gulf Coast Renaissance Corporation to help rebuild the Mississippi Gulf Coast by bridging the gap in the need for safe and affordable workforce housing.

Since then, Renaissance has helped make distinct improvements to the communities by promoting community and economic development through various programs implemented to deliver effective and meaningful results. Our success has been marked by our ability to understand the communities’ needs, to create a highly qualified team to meet those needs, to develop a customized and thoughtful approach to the programs we implement, manage and proactively define and achieve short-term and long-term objectives for our programs.