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.
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Coverage of economic development from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Baldwin County
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New Chancellor Bradley Byrne Sees Better Days Ahead for Bishop State and the Two-Year System
Chancellor Bradley Byrne said Alabama’s community colleges were living through the best of times and the worst of times, promising accountability while laying out plans for new Bishop State campuses in Mobile County.
Axis
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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.
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Shelby Announces $4.76 Million for Mobile’s State Docks Intermodal Project
U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby announced a $4.76 million federal award to the Alabama State Port Authority in Mobile for the State Docks intermodal facility, the second installment of a $20 million authorization.
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Could Surplus FEMA Trailers House the Steel Mill’s Construction Army?
With 29,000 construction workers expected for a $3.7 billion steel mill in north Mobile County, a former Mobile mayor floated an unusual fix: haul surplus FEMA trailers to a planned motorsports park near Prichard.
Atmore
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FAA Sent $3.28 Million to Four Southwest Alabama Airports
Mobile Regional, Atmore Municipal, Dauphin Island and Bay Minette Municipal airports shared more than $3.28 million in federal aviation grants for sprinklers, security fencing and runway protection zones.
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Shelby Vowed to Block Union Card-Check Bill, Citing Alabama’s Factories
Pointing to Mercedes, Honda, Hyundai and the new EADS facility in Mobile, Alabama’s senior senator said he had cosigned a letter with enough signatures to stop the Employee Free Choice Act in the Senate.
Calvert
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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.
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Mayor Sam Jones Liked Mobile’s Hand as the ThyssenKrupp Decision Neared
With a $2.9 billion steel mill decision expected within days, Mobile Mayor Sam Jones told a civic club he would not trade places with Louisiana, and laid out where the city stood on the bridge, the port and downtown.
Mobile
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‘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.