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.
A refrigerated cargo distribution center officially opened Wednesday in Mobile, billed as one of the largest facilities of its kind in the Southeast. Baltimore-based MTC Logistics expects to eventually employ…
The City of Prichard has opened applications for its Prichard Thrive Small Business Grant Program, a new effort to funnel direct financial assistance to local business owners still working to…
The board of directors for the Africatown Redevelopment Corporation (ARC) has been officially appointed, Alabama House Representative Adline C. Clarke announced on October 6, 2021, in Mobile. The ARC board…
The City of Mobile has installed two new in-person kiosks at Government Plaza designed to help minority-, women- and veteran-owned businesses — as well as businesses in qualifying low-income areas…
United Airlines has placed a major order for 70 Airbus A321neo aircraft, with a significant portion of the jets set to be assembled at Airbus’s manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabama,…
MOBILE, Ala. — Austal USA has delivered the future USS Savannah to the U.S. Navy, marking another milestone for the shipbuilder’s Mobile operations. The delivery hands the Navy a completed…
Alabama's Certificate of Need Review Board voted 5-0 to approve a new USA Health ambulatory surgery center on the Mapp Family Campus in Fairhope, overriding a judge's recommendation and objections…
Ingalls Shipbuilding announced in June 2021 that it planned to add approximately 3,000 full-time shipbuilders at its Pascagoula yard as part of a long-term growth plan, and it invited job…
The Biden administration is formally backing efforts to bring passenger rail back to the Gulf Coast, throwing federal weight behind a long-running campaign to restore Amtrak service between Mobile and…
PENSACOLA, Fla. — The City of Pensacola is working to make downtown safer for people who walk and ride bicycles, and architects are close to finishing the first set of…