ThyssenKrupp deeded the stainless portion of its Calvert plant to TK Stainless in a transaction valued in the tens of millions, while RSA closed on downtown Mobile’s Royal Street properties.
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Real Estate Roundup: RSA Snaps Up the Historic Van Antwerp Building in Downtown Mobile
The Retirement Systems of Alabama expanded its downtown Mobile footprint with the historic Van Antwerp building and a Royal Street law office, as Whole Foods eyed a Pinebrook location.
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Twenty-Five Years On, Mobile Weighs Whether Its Convention Center Delivered
A quarter century after Mobile bet its downtown revival on a waterfront convention center, business and civic figures offered a candid, divided verdict on whether the gamble paid off.
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Artur Davis Is Losing Democrats on Purpose, and Sam Jones Is Staying Anyway
The congressman’s health care vote and his snub of black political organizations have infuriated Democrats. Mobile’s mayor disagrees with both moves and says he is voting for him regardless.
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Sheriff Cochran Stays Neutral in Governor’s Race as Endorsements Shift Around Him
Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran flirted with backing Tim James for governor but stayed publicly uncommitted. Former Sheriff Jack Tillman is in the James camp.
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A Birmingham Congressman Kept Turning Up in Mobile, and Everyone Knew Why
U.S. Rep. Artur Davis delivered his ‘false choices’ speech to the Mobile Rotary Club, his second appearance in the city in about a month, as speculation grew about a 2010 run for governor.
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Red Dresses, a Senator’s Breakfast and the Endless Question of Downtown Parking
A heart association fundraiser at the Battle House put local officials on a fashion runway, Alabama’s senior senator prepared to address a business forum, and downtown Mobile revisited its most persistent complaint.
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Salvation or Snake Eyes? Two Mobilians Argue Over the Convention Center’s Return on Investment
A published conversation between two Mobile observers weighs whether the downtown convention center has paid for itself, why Government Plaza depresses them, and whether high-speed ferries would ever carry anyone.
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The Cabal Behind the Stock Board: Five Mobile Brokers Shop for a New Firm
Part twelve of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: five brokers met each afternoon after the boss left for his club, plotting to sell a ready-made Mobile office to a Wall Street firm.