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.
Tag: Calvert
News from Calvert — local reporting on government, courts, crime, schools, business and community life in Calvert.
Baldwin County
Continue Reading
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.
Baldwin County
Continue Reading
Real Estate Roundup: ThyssenKrupp Deeds Calvert Stainless Plant as RSA Closes Royal Street Deal
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.
Mobile
Continue Reading
Port of Mobile’s Pinto Terminal Wins National Engineering Honor
The Alabama State Port Authority collected the top engineering honor from the American Association of Port Authorities for the technology deployed at the Port of Mobile’s Pinto Terminal.
Calvert
Continue Reading
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.
Calvert
Continue Reading
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.
Local News
Continue Reading
Mobile’s Four-Term Mayor Ruled Out the School Board, and Left the Door Open on Governor
Former Mayor Mike Dow said his wife would tolerate only one more campaign, and it would not be for the school board. In a long reply, he laid out his views on candidate recruitment and Mobile’s ‘new politics.’
Calvert
Continue Reading
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.
Axis
Continue Reading
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.
Calvert
Continue Reading
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.