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.
Commissioner Stephen Nodine joined an economic development mission to Britain, Spain and France, touring EADS Airbus and CASA plants like those proposed for Mobile if the KC-30 tanker project lands…
Promised anonymity, Mobile developers and executives delivered a blunt 2008 verdict on the city's permitting, its economic development effort and its habit of favoring public projects over private capital.
A 2008 forecast cited by WKRG projected Mobile would lead U.S. metro areas in growth of gross metropolitan product from 2007 through 2012.
Archived WKRG coverage documented Mobile's 2008 Celebrate Mobile parade, which highlighted local economic-development projects.
The GAO found the Air Force made significant math errors in scoring a $35 billion tanker contract, casting new doubt on plans for an aircraft assembly plant at Brookley Field…
The GAO was expected to rule by Thursday on Boeing's protest of the Air Force tanker award, a decision with major stakes for a planned Northrop Grumman/EADS assembly line in…
Steel at Calvert, tankers at Brookley, a new container terminal and a downtown tower: in mid-2008, Mobile leaders argued the long-promised boom had finally arrived, while cautioning it was not…
A retired executive told the Rotary Club of Mobile in June 2008 that Forward Mobile, an unpublicized circle of about 40 civic and business leaders, had quietly shaped decades of…
A Mobile County commentary renews the case for a full-scale regional transit system, arguing that expanded bus service would pay for itself as gas prices and traffic push more residents…
A bank taking space in the Athelstan Club, condominiums nearing completion on Dauphin Street and two buildings being restored on Bienville Square marked downtown Mobile's revival in spring 2008.