Former employees of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport can learn about job opportunities at the new facility during a public meeting next week.

The former home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. A newly rebuilt, $194.4 million home will open this fall.

U.S. Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker and U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor said in a news release Friday that the facility’s opening will be a major step in Katrina recovery.

Some of the veterans at the home before the storm have been living at another retirement home in Washington, D.C.

The jobs meeting is at 10 a.m. Thursday at the new facility off of U.S. Highway 90 in Gulfport.

Online:

Armed Forces Retirement Home: http://www.afrh.gov