Nine Top Chefs Face Off in ‘Battle for Mobile Bay’ Fundraiser Oct. 9
Chefs from both sides of Mobile Bay will square off in a friendly culinary grudge match on October 9, when the “Battle for Mobile Bay” pits nine of the region’s…
Turnout Runs ‘Extremely Low’ Across Mobile County on Primary Day
Mobile County Probate Judge Don Davis reported light voter participation at polling places from Citronelle to Saraland as Alabamians voted in party primaries, while campaigns readied election night gatherings across…
Downtown Mobile Hotels Sought Nearly 100 Workers in 2008
Archived WKRG coverage reported that the Battle House and Riverview Renaissance were seeking nearly 100 new employees in early 2008.
Battle House Hotel Nears Completion of $220 Million Renovation, Will Join Marriott’s Renaissance Brand
Two of downtown Mobile’s largest hotels are set to reopen under Marriott’s Renaissance brand this year, marking a milestone in the city’s downtown revitalization effort led by the Retirement Systems…
Royal Street Goes Both Ways Again as Downtown Mobile Undoes Decades of One-Way Traffic
Mobile moved in late 2006 to restore two-way traffic on Royal Street and blocks of Dauphin and St. Francis, an $800,000 project tied to the Battle House Hotel and the…
Phone Booths at the Battle House: A Mobile Broker’s Secret Courtship of a Cotton King
In a serialized memoir of a bygone Mobile, a group of stockbrokers plotting to leave a tyrannical boss found a backer in a courtly New Orleans financier who once cornered…
Cold Feet on the Coast: A Mobile Broker’s Conscience Nearly Sinks the Plot
The fourteenth installment of a bygone-Mobile memoir finds the conspirators summoned to a financier's beach house, an office secured in the Waterman Building, and one man losing his nerve.
Riley and Bronner Pressed Dow to Run Again, but Mobile’s Mayor Appeared Unmoved
Gov. Bob Riley and retirement systems chief David Bronner urged Mobile Mayor Mike Dow to seek re-election at a meeting shortly before Christmas 2004, but his backers conceded he was…
A Mobile Broker Remembers the Week His Firm Walked Out and Took the Clients With It
In a January 2005 installment of his recollections of a bygone Mobile, a retired stockbroker described the frantic fortnight in which he and his partners opened a new office and…
Suppers Alone in an Empty Apartment: A Mobile Landlord Waits Out the Old House
Part eight of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: the author kept going back to his mother's apartment for supper, while the ledgers told him the old house could not…