AMITE—After several starts and stops due to summer thunderstorms, Tangipahoa Parish crews have completed the demolition of a former state office building which has been boarded up for decades.
Tangipahoa Parish President Robby Miller said parish leaders leveled the former social services building on the corner of West Oak and North Bay Streets as a first step in building a new Housing office for the parish.
Miller said “This is a wonderful opportunity to take a damaged structure that was out of commerce for many years and replace it with a new modern office complex that will house our Section 8 offices, providing vital services to the people of our parish right here on the Highway 16 corridor of Amite.”
The project represents years of collaboration and public partnerships among Parish Government, the Town of Amite, and the state, Miller said.
“We could not have done this without the assistance of our state and Town of Amite partners, who worked tirelessly to help us reach this point,” Miller said. He offered special thanks to Mayor Walter Daniels and his administration who worked closely with parish government to acquire the building from the state.
Miller said the parish plans to break ground on the new facility very soon, and he’s excited to play a part in enhancing the eastern entry into the Town of Amite.
“This is just one of several wonderful projects we’ve been able to partner with the Town of Amite in recent years,” Miller said, citing the Mulberry Street Extension project, a long-sought east-west thoroughfare to alleviate traffic on LA 16, and the new Arena sidewalk project that will create a pedestrian walkway from the Florida Parishes Arena south into town along the US 51 corridor.
“We say it all the time—working together, we truly can achieve more for Tangipahoa Parish,” Miller said.
