Residents pressed Mobile County commissioners to block Beacon Data Centers’ multi-billion-dollar Calvert Infrastructure Hub. Commissioners said the county has no legal authority to stop it.
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News from Calvert in Mobile County, Alabama.
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Alabama Regulators Open Data Center Power Contract Review as Calvert, Prichard and Stockton Projects Loom
State regulators are rewriting how electric contracts for giant data centers get reviewed, with public comments due in August. The outcome could shape projects proposed in Calvert, Prichard and Baldwin County.
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Port Director Jimmy Lyons Briefed Sunrise Rotary as Mobile’s Docks Boomed
Alabama State Port Authority chief Jimmy Lyons addressed the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile in February 2009, with a $100 million Pinto Island terminal under way to serve the ThyssenKrupp steel mill.
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A Steel Plant, a Shipyard and a Tanker: Would Unions Come Back to South Alabama?
With ThyssenKrupp rising near Calvert, Austal expanding downtown and aircraft work possible at Brookley, a veteran labor lawyer was asked whether organized labor would ride the boom back into Mobile. His answer: don’t count on it.
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Boom, Boom, Boom: Mobile Counted Its Winnings in the Summer of 2008
Steel at Calvert, tankers at Brookley, a new container terminal and a downtown tower: in mid-2008, Mobile leaders argued the long-promised boom had finally arrived, while cautioning it was not yet in hand.
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One City Along I-65? North Mobile County Weighed a Merger It Knew Would Never Happen
With a steel plant rising at Calvert and a new school system drawing families to Saraland, developers and officials debated dissolving Chickasaw, Satsuma and Creola into a single north Mobile County city.
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Workforce Alliance Finished Its Plan and Went Looking for Someone to Run It
With a strategic plan complete and major industrial projects arriving in Mobile County, the South Alabama Regional Workforce Development Alliance opened a search for a director to carry the plan out.
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County Turns to New Bond Counsel for $70 Million ThyssenKrupp Incentive Issue
Mobile County tapped Matt McDonald and Brian Cash of Miller Hamilton to handle a $70 million bond issue tied to incentives for the $3.7 billion ThyssenKrupp steel plant in north Mobile County.
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Steeling Up: Mobile Wins the Mill and Discovers It Has No Workers
With a German steel giant headed for north Mobile County, local executives warned that the region’s real crisis had shifted from recruiting industry to finding and training the people to staff it.
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Mobile Council and County Commission Moved on ThyssenKrupp Steel Incentives
The Mobile City Council met in special session on a memorandum of understanding for the city’s share of incentives for the $3.7 billion steel plant near Calvert, as the county released details of its own role.