Tag: Mobile County growth

A crowd of residents at a public town hall style meeting

Hundreds Turn Out for Mobile’s First Comprehensive Planning Forum in Two Decades

James Bullard, March 17, 2015

More than 400 Mobile residents attended the first public forum for Map for Mobile, the city’s first comprehensive plan in over 20 years.

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Rows of travel trailers parked at a temporary housing site

Could Surplus FEMA Trailers House the Steel Mill’s Construction Army?

James Bullard, June 25, 2007

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.