Mobile Development Thread

[nimsjus]

I didnt think of it earlier when I posted the Gayfers building news, but the article mentions ground floor parking. I think that is a pretty bad idea, especially in a building with frontage on Bienville Square. Hopefully the will put some retail at that front entrance on Bienville. If they want to make the back of the first floor parking with exits onto the side streets, then by all means, but please don't waste that Bienville frontage as a parking garage for the residential/offices above. Surely these investors see the value in that entrance off of Dauphin/Bienville Square. How great would it be to live in this project when completed? I have never thought that building was particularly attractive(not my style), but we Mobilians view it with a great deal of nostalgia and it is probably the most centrally located of all the new resdential/office projects(along with St. Emanuel Lofts). I do hope the school board uses the moeny for Barton rennovation or to rennovate Dunbar(They bought the Gayfers building to be an arts school so why not use the cash to do work on the existing fine arts school).