Downtown Mobile

[Southron]

Good info in there. Thanks for the link, bayourat15.

[Southron]

An updated Downtown Mobile Alliance major investment report (downtown projects completed, in progress and proposed) is available here in .pdf format. Check it out!

[Florida]

Hey Mobile!

I was in the neighborhood this week and I took a few pictures I thought I should share

Mobile has a charming downtown.

[Florida]

Here are the rest of those pictures... Downtown Part II

[Alabadrock]

Wow, very beautiful Taurean, very nice. Now, I really can't wait until I get down there next.

[Florida]

thank you Alabadrock. That Dauphin street was so beautiful. I wish I could have taken a picture of each of those homes leading into downtown from I-65.

[Alabadrock]

thank you Alabadrock. That Dauphin street was so beautiful. I wish I could have taken a picture of each of those homes leading into downtown from I-65.

[richyb83]

Very nice pics TaureanJ! Thanks for posting all of them! Nice clear day to take those. The RSA Tower sure looks impressive; taken with the AmSouth bldg. it gives Mobile a big city feel. Like the older architecture lining the streets too is very nice. Impressive shot inside the tunnel Beinville Square looks fantastic!

[Southron]

Great photos, TaureanJ, thanks for posting! Downtown is looking good.

Edited July 15, 2007 by Southron

[Southron]

The results of a downtown parking management study are available on the Downtown Mobile Alliance website. The study, prepared by Urban Place Consulting Group, Inc. and Downtown Parking & Planning Associates, LLC for the Downtown Mobile Alliance, recommends professional management of downtown parking (both on and off street) using one of three options:

[*]the City develop staff resources internally and re-align parking responsibilities within the traffic engineering department

[*]create a semi-autonomous public Parking Authority

[*]partner with the Downtown Mobile Alliance to develop a

[gibson]

Excellent pics TJ, How do I wish Tally's downtown, College Ave, and Gaines could one day be that cool.

[Southron]

The Press-Register ran a story on the recent downtown parking study, which warns that the area near the RSA Tower and Riverview Plaza may face a parking shortage in the near future. The report also says the city has a bad deal with Central Parking Corp. and needs centralized management of downtown parking.

Details in the article.

Mobile Press-Register: Report: Parking shortage possible

[Southron]

Mobile Mayor Sam Jones is addressing complaints about the lack of supervision over downtown parking ticket writers, but his administration has not yet committed to broader reforms of downtown parking. The administration hasn't decided whether it will renew the contract with Central Parking, entertain other contract proposals or adopt one of the options suggested by the downtown parking study.

Mobile Press-Register: Mobile mayor not ready to agree to parking reform

[Southron]

The state granted the Downtown Mobile Alliance $44.4 million in Gulf Opportunity (GO) Zone bonds applied for last fall. The alliance will contact the original applicants for the grants, which included 28 projects worth over $141 million, to find out if they are still interested in the financing. Some of the projects moved forward without the financing, so the alliance could end up with excess financing that could be made available for other downtown projects.

Mobile Press-Register: Alliance granted $44.4M in bonds

Mobile Press-Register: GO Zone Bonds: Downtown developers could benefit instead

The Alliance got all that they asked for, which means more good renovation and infill projects for downtown. It's really great to see downtown development picking up this kind of momentum.

[Southron]

Per the Downtown Mobile Alliance July newsletter, three new downtown restaurants are on the near horizon:

• Bellini's, light Italian fare at the corner of Joachim and Conti

• Noell B's, in the former Loretta's at 19 S. Conception, from the owner of Cafe 615

• Bacchus, in the former Quatorze at 54 S. Conception, with lunch daily, a full bar and a tapas menu in the evening

Downtown Update - July 2007

[Southron]

From the Mobile development news thread:

The Mobile Arts & Sports Association, parent organization of the Senior Bowl, bought a 3-story downtown building that will be renovated to provide a location for the Mobile Sports Hall of Fame Museum. The museum will occupy the ground floor of the c. 1890s building at the southwest corner of Dauphin and St. Emanuel streets.

Mobile Press-Register: Downtown site to house sports museum

[Southron]

A couple of items in Kathy Jumper's column in the Press-Register yesterday:

The AmSouth Bank building will be renamed later this year, and bank employees will move to Regions' new offices in the RSA Battle House Tower by the end of this year. I guess this means improvements to the exterior of the building are highly unlikely.

A coffee shop, Serda's Coffee Shop & Deli, will open this fall on the first floor at 3 S. Royal St. Good to see more retail establishments opening up downtown.

Kathy Jumper 7/29/07

[bayourat15]

BIG NEWS ON THURSDAY

[The Dude]

BIG NEWS ON THURSDAY

[bayourat15]

Hint: It rhymes with the name of a stadium in Montgomery

[The Dude]

Hint: It rhymes with the name of a stadium in Montgomery

[The Dude]

BIG NEWS ON THURSDAY

[bayourat15]

well?

[The Dude]

breaking ground on the hampton

[Southron]

Contracts have been approved to convert St. Louis St. from one-way to two-way traffic. A stretch of Spring Hill west of Broad will also be converted to two-way traffic. Future targets for two-way traffic conversions could include St. Joseph St. and St. Francis St. from Royal to Broad.

Mobile Press-Register: St. Louis Street could be two-way by year's end