Mobile Postpones Dumpster Enclosure Requirement for Businesses
Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson says the city will hold off four months on requiring businesses to build enclosures around trash dumpsters citywide.
951 Government Street Sells for $275,000 With Eight-Story Apartment Conversion Planned
A landmark downtown building is headed for a residential future. Vallas Realty recently sold the property at 951 Government St. — an eight-story, 75,000-square-foot structure on the corner of Government…
From Law to Land: Daniel Dennis IV Takes the Helm at Roberts Brothers
At 32, Daniel Dennis IV traded a legal career for real estate, leading Mobile-based Roberts Brothers and its roughly 240 agents after steering the firm’s 2011 merger with Dauphin Realty.
Senate Confirms Mobile’s Angus Cooper II for Another Term on Alabama Trustees Board
The maritime executive and Cooper/T. Smith chairman was among three trustees reconfirmed by the Alabama Senate to terms running through 2015 on the University of Alabama board.
A Mobile Businessman’s Book Reopened a Long Fight Over a Family Trucking Company
Tommy Fulton scheduled a signing in Magnolia Springs for 'An Act of Congress,' his account of the succession battle that put his family's Finch Companies in court against a future…
Real Estate Economist Don Epley Headlined Sunrise Rotary’s First Program of 2009
With the housing market in free fall and credit frozen, the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile opened its 2009 program year by turning to one of its own members: University…
Bubba, Mayer, Mr. Mitchell: Friends Recall a Mobile Life of Outsized Reach
Friends and colleagues remembered Mayer 'Bubba' Mitchell, the Mobile developer and philanthropist who died at 74, as a man whose influence ran from Leinkauf School to the White House.
Passed Over at 48: A Mobile Broker’s Account of Losing the Manager’s Job He Had Earned
In the next installment of his recollections, a Mobile stockbroker described reaching the top of his profession in 1968, then being displaced as office manager the following year by a…
A Mobile Broker Remembers the Week His Firm Walked Out and Took the Clients With It
In a January 2005 installment of his recollections of a bygone Mobile, a retired stockbroker described the frantic fortnight in which he and his partners opened a new office and…
‘You’re in Deep Trouble’: A Mobile Broker’s Rough First Year Under a New Firm’s Rules
A retired Mobile stockbroker recalled the punishing first year at a new firm, where unfamiliar exchange rules, an unhappy back office and a parsimonious owner made for slow going and…