Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of economic development from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Municipal leaders in Creola and Saraland quietly explored merging the smaller city into the larger, with access to Saraland's school system and I-65 commercial property driving the discussion.
Mobile’s still-unfinished GulfQuest maritime museum needed another $3 million in July 2011 — and Mayor Sam Jones proposed the city borrow it, on top of roughly $25 million in city…
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.
Dauphin Island officials said Army and Navy representatives explored the island in 2011 as a possible site for an armed-forces recreation center.
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.
Gov. Bob Riley visited the Alabama State Docks this week to tout the economic payoff of a decade of investment in the Port of Mobile, pointing to more than 67,000…
The Jack Edwards Airport in Gulf Shores was awarded nearly $2.4 million from the Federal Aviation Administration to build hangar access taxiways, an investment aimed at strengthening the coastal Baldwin…
With the deadline for final bids on the Air Force’s multibillion-dollar aerial refueling tanker contract arriving, much of the public debate around the competition has centered on a familiar question…
An archival look at the 2010 startup of ThyssenKrupp's Calvert steel complex, the jobs and investment then projected, and the later changes that reshaped the facility.
State Rep. Spencer Collier took a temporary leave from his consulting contract with the City of Bayou la Batre after the Ethics Commission advised him to step aside while BP…