Mobile Development Thread

[SouthSky]

Those Gayfers building renderings are great! I was walking by that area during Mardi Gras and something like that would be an awesome addition. Again, with all this residential development there needs to be development in commercial (including grocery stores) that goes hand in hand.

I've found two interesting plans about transportation on urbanplanet that involve a big improvement for the Mobile metro area.

One is a high-speed rail system in the southeast. The USDOT has a map that shows routes that are in the planning progress.


full map link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/High-Speed_Rail_Corridor_Designations.png

Also, a non-profit organization has a map of proposed and future interstates around the southeast:

Link: http://www.i-dots.info/I_DOTS.gif

[bayou15]

Thanks SouthSky! for the info


http://www.cruisecritic.com/news/news.cfm?ID=2185
This is a good web site about the cruise industry. This is some old news I found. I hope we see some news about a second boat soon. I just dont think with all these new developments coming to Mobile ,the area leaders are really not pushing hard for a bigger or a second boat.

I have some ideas to share with y'all............

1) I think the turning basin issue is complete B.S. I've been on I-10 headed east and seen many Cruise ships at (Bender/ Atlantic Marine?) local shipyards being repaired. If I can remember right I think I saw the ship out of Nawlins on a drydock. I neaux good and well she's bumping 1,000ft.

2) Parking......If this is a issue denying us a ship up grade ,I say add additional floors to the parking garage that is there already. Let people park at the graveyard(Civic Center) till its finished.

3) Making the Convention Center a terminal?......It justs sits not being used and there is lots of space for a ship. Maybe if it came down to it?

4) The land just North of the convention center....The land is prime real estate for retail development. I would like to see something like Nawlins has.
example: Jackson Brewery, Aquarium, Hard Rock Cafe, and a French Market, etc...But the land is own by the state docks which has 2 container cranes on the property. I hope they will consider moving their opperations, down the river where the new container development will take place.
Yeah I neaux this probably won't happen , but hell South Alabama has a football team now so anything is possible

In conclusion....Mobile has a land shortage on her waterfront. I guess back in the day when yellow fever killed many, this was never thought about. But now we have leaders with a vision for future development and not the(OLD MOBILE)ways . I hope this area is looked at carefully before all the land is bought up

...Just some sunday afternoon thoughts. Dont shoot me down to hard


.......LATER............

[Electrical Porpoise]

Originally Posted by bayou15

Thanks Southsky for the info...............But its a damn shame how much more tonnage it could be if only they would widen the channel at pinto pass. On tv the other day, they interviewed the headman who runs the port. And said we need millions more for the dredging(sp?) to happen.



Maybe if they hurry up with digging ,we can get that damn second boat!!!


I think a larger cruise ship would fit now, But who neauxs I hope at the new vision of Mobile meeting monday nite, the waterfront will be discussed. Up to now it has been planned out poorly.

..............later..........

There are a thousand small problems that are keeping them from moving forward on a project like that -- from future bridge plans to separate concerns regarding water movement through the M-T Delta relative to the roadways that cross them. Small interest groups are making things very difficult.

[Musicisright]

Originally Posted by Del

Musicisright, I was driving downtown this afternoon looking at the spire-things and thinking about your beautiful pictures. It occurred to me that the gilded domes on the Catholic cathedral don't pull nearly the attention that they used to before the RSA tower went up and all this spire action started happening.

Thank you for the nice words. I agree. Are the domes lit at night? I can't remember. They're so shiny when the sun hits them.

[Alxx611]

Holy crap, I'm really pumped about the Gayfer's place. Valet parking, retail and condos, a library on the 5th floor, a spa and a pool, its just unbelievably nice.

[bayou15]

Another good website+search engine http://www.coastalalabama.tv/

[Del]

Hey y'all - visit this fellow's survey and vote, will ya? Rep. Todd Tiahrt, 4th Congressional District of Kansas, is OUTRAGED that America would "outsource its national security" by letting EADS assemble the tankers in Alabama. I suppose the US Mint's bicentennial quarters unfortunately did not teach Mr. Tiahrt that Alabama became a state in 1819.

[spookyapp]

Originally Posted by Del

Hey y'all - visit this fellow's survey and vote, will ya? Rep. Todd Tiahrt, 4th Congressional District of Kansas, is OUTRAGED that America would "outsource its national security" by letting EADS assemble the tankers in Alabama. I suppose the US Mint's bicentennial quarters unfortunately did not teach Mr. Tiahrt that Alabama became a state in 1819.

I like how that guy is so biased AND he is hosting his own survey on the issue. Does he think he is going to get a fair result by hosting it on that page that is so blatantly opposed to the decision? Of course not; he is doing it to boost his own self worth. This doofus needs to get a clue.

[MobileLSUboy2005]

So I found this map through the Mobile Chamber of Commerce, and I'm still wondering...If all those counties are part of the workforce, WHY aren't they included in our MSA?!

[bayou15]

http://www.mobilechamber.com/economic/Mobile_IEDC_Statistics.xls

http://www.mobilechamber.com/economic/Mobile_IEDC_Statistics.xls


Need help on printing images

oops i mean posting images on site, any how not bad 1.6 million in area by 2011.

[Muskavon]

Geez, there's a pile of info in that chamber spreadsheet.

Thought it was intersting how many commute into Escambia Cnty, FL compared to others. I guess it's a result of nearby communities being Milton/Pace/Gulf Breeze/Navarre in Santa Rosa Cnty. And Seminole/Lillian/Orange Beach just into Bama.

[sahara727]

musicisright, excellent pictures, as usual. you're a real asset to this and other mobile threads.

[SouthSky]

Originally Posted by bayou15

http://www.mobilechamber.com/economic/Mobile_IEDC_Statistics.xls

http://www.mobilechamber.com/economic/Mobile_IEDC_Statistics.xls


Need help on printing images

I would try converting that excel document into a word document then try printing.

[BlessedMobile]

Originally Posted by bayou15

http://www.mobilechamber.com/economic/Mobile_IEDC_Statistics.xls

http://www.mobilechamber.com/economic/Mobile_IEDC_Statistics.xls


Need help on printing images

oops i mean posting images on site

Bayou,
Are you trying to upload photos to the Chamber site? I doubt they will allow that. You can send them to the Chamber and they may decide to use them. I guess this is your plan. You do have Excel Viewer I image but if you don't this is the link to the free download.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...6C-4569-B547-75EDBD03AAF0&displaylang=en

[bayou15]

Trying to upload photos to this site.

[Port_of_Bama]

Originally Posted by MobileLSUboy2005

So I found this map through the Mobile Chamber of Commerce, and I'm still wondering...If all those counties are part of the workforce, WHY aren't they included in our MSA?!

Man thats what I been talking about, we are thge only city in the state with a 2 county metro. Mobile and Baldwin county CSA is over 570,000 based on the 2006 census. With the counties that are on that graph Mobile CSA is well over a million. I`ll be up herein Hutsville for school during the meeting wish I could make it I hope someone mention this.

MobileLSUBoy what link did you get that from ?

[Bayside]

Originally Posted by Alxx611

Holy crap, I'm really pumped about the Gayfer's place. Valet parking, retail and condos, a library on the 5th floor, a spa and a pool, its just unbelievably nice.

And just think, for $200,000.00, you can be living there in your very own 600 square foot condo!

[Del]

Originally Posted by Bayside

And just think, for $200,000.00, you can be living there in your very own 600 square foot condo!

Yeah, when I saw "600 sq ft" I thought, oh good, there will be some studios for young people, students, etc. But when I read about the 24 hour valet parking, I realized how wrong I was. Will some of these be sold to folks who just want a downtown place for Mardi Gras? I can't imagine spending that kind of money for that, but then again I don't have that kind of money.

Husband went to the meeting last night - his "breakout group" was chiefly concerned with retail and crime, crime, crime. Someone from downtown pointed out that crime was actually decreasing downtown and increasing in West Mobile - that statistic seemed to fall on deaf ears. Then we have the editorial in this morning's paper, "Perceptions are not the reality for Mobile." Gee, who could it be creating the perception by having mug shots on the front page every single day??? Black guy goes to jail for a traffic ticket: front page! 400 people show up for a meeting to help plan Mobile's future: page 5B, next to the obits. Oh yes, and another crime pic next to that story for good measure.

[BKOTH97]

Originally Posted by Port_of_Bama

Man thats what I been talking about, we are thge only city in the state with a 2 county metro. Mobile and Baldwin county CSA is over 570,000 based on the 2006 census.

Port_of_Bama,

Mobile is not the only city in the state with a 2 county metro.

Huntsville (Madison, Limestone) - 376,753
Decatur (Morgan, Lawrence) - 149,549
Florence/Muscle Shoals (Lauderdale, Colbert) - 142,657

Mobile (Mobile, Baldwin) 404,157

Numbers are 2006 MSA Estimates.

Thanks,
BKOTH97

[elb401]

Those numbers are just Mobile county. 1 county metro. Baldwin is in our CSA. If baldwin was in our metro it would be morelike 580,000 people.