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Originally Posted by (Tim)
No, Mobile is not hurting because of Biloxi and Pensacola. Baton Rouge is very close to New Orleans and it is not hurting. You cannot label Mobile like that at all. I lived in Pensacola and the people that I knew there came to Mobile. Mobile has so much more than Pensacola, things that Pensacola want's bad. LSU boy you must be oblivious to the development in Mobile and what we have. If you want to break it down, the Mall of Louisiana was to be built in Mobile back in 1995 when Mobile and it's bourgeois rejected the whole deal. The development firm Jim Wilson & Associates from Montgomery, decided to move in to Baton Rouge. The Mall of Louisiana looks so much like River chase. Too bad that old Mobile did not want it. Things are so much more different now and I see a much better attitude than before. Mobile does have a lot of the same stores they are just scattered all over the metro.
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I am very aware of the change of attitude in Mobile. I know the city is changing, and its gonna be great - eventually. I work for one of the largest national commercial construction companies, headquartered in Mobile, although I am working in the Baton Rouge office right now, but I know all about Mobile and surrounding area developments. I know our local economy is expanding while nationally, well, we all know what its doing. I also knew that the Mall of La was going to come to Mobile, but didn't. My point was not to say how terrible Mobile is and will be, but that yea, its changing, but growth is while right now speedy, not in the direction I would like it to be going, meaning I would like to see higher-end retailers and dining, etc. than whats currently planned/already there. Make Mobile more upscale than it already is. Show that we have some class. The last things we need are more crappy-— dollar stores and walmarts, although walmart has been cutting back big-time on their new-store building (the company I work for has the national walmart contract). Does anyone know what is going on with the one on Airport by Providence though?
And as far as saying Baton Rouge's proximity to New Orleans doesn't hurt it? Well i think it had in the past, pre-katrina. And of course Pensacola doesn't compare to Mobile, but it most certainly takes away from our tourism industry since they have the awesome crystal clear water that we don't. If Alabama could legalize gaming or a lottery or BOTH then that would certainly help. We are the ONLY state in the Southeast without either. Keep Alabamian's money in our own state's pockets!
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