Foley Main Street welcomed 12 new downtown businesses since November and secured more than $44,000 in grants, including money for decorative crosswalks and evening programming.
Tag: community development
Coverage of community development from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Mobile
Mayor Stimpson Names 60-Plus Leaders to Guide Mobile’s First Long-Range Plan in 20 Years
Mayor Sandy Stimpson appointed more than 60 community leaders to advisory and outreach committees for Mobile’s first comprehensive plan in two decades.
Mobile County
Prichard Council Orders Demolition of Nine Blighted Homes
Prichard’s City Council passed a resolution to demolish nine vacant, decaying homes as part of the city’s ongoing fight against neighborhood blight.
Mobile
‘Bridging Racial Disparity’: A Conservative Forum on Poverty Came to Mobile
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, County Commissioner Juan Chastang and ADECA Director Bill Johnson headlined the Washington/Douglass Economic Forum, a Republican-sponsored think tank session on poverty and race.