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. The project represents years of collaboration and public partnerships among Parish Government, the Town of Amite, and the state, Miller said. 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.
Miller said it was just one of several wonderful projects they’ve been able to partner with the Town of Amite in recent years, including 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.
