What’s happening with the Galleria Mall project?

Thirty-one acres of development is sitting still in D’Iberville where the planned Gulf Coast Galleria Shopping Center was supposed to open. The grand opening was set for years ago and residents want to know what the holdup is.
Drivers have been passing the sign for Galleria Parkway on Interstate 10 for years. The big shopping center was planned to come to D’Iberville in 2015 yet the project hasn’t even broken ground.
Alexandra Vargas works at a car dealership across from this empty property where shops would have been busy with Christmas shoppers if the mall had been built. “I feel it’s taken a little bit longer than expected. People have been hearing about this mall for a while now and their ready to see some new shopping centers open up and people love shopping here and it would bring so much more business to the area.”
The shopping center is planned to have restaurants, resident housing, and stores that have never come to Mississippi. The project is expected to bring thousands of new jobs and millions of dollars of retail tax revenue, but currently the 31 acres of development sits still. City Manager Clay Jones said, “Any project of this magnitude is going to have some type of delays along the way somewhere because the reality is there’s a lot of competition out there and this is a large, large project.”
City officials tell News 25 there’s been a lot of development in D’Iberville over the past few years. Residents say they think the new mall would help the city grow even more. “People hearing about the mall for a while now. They get excited. They know something new is coming. I feel like you need to keep everyone informed as far as what’s going on.”
News 25 did speak to property owner Bob Mandal, who didn’t want to make a comment on camera, but he says the project is very much still underway and the Gulf Coast can expect a big update over the next couple months.