Mobile Development Thread - Page 184

nimsjus · #**3661** Posted **Mar 6, 2009, 12:48 PM**

Sam Jones has cancer (multiple myeloma). Prognosis seems good and his staff say he will seek reelection.
http://www.al.com/news/press-register/metro.ssf?/base/news/1236334580317100.xml&coll=3

P.S. All my pictures from Mardi Gras, Downtown, and Spring Hill College are linked at the bottom of the last page.

phoenixboi08 · #**3662** Posted **Mar 6, 2009, 5:57 PM**

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I finally got all of my pictures loaded up to photobucket. I can post some here if you guys have some favorites. There are a tonf of pictures. I hope you guys enjoy.

Downtown Pictures
http://s177.photobucket.com/albums/w222/nimsjus/Mobile%202009/

WAIT! What are they building on the old courthouse lot?

| BRAVO | · #**3663** Posted **Mar 6, 2009, 11:54 PM**

Very nice pics nimsjus. I really enjoyed the tour of Mobile. Thanks!

nimsjus · #**3664** Posted **Mar 7, 2009, 2:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by phoenixboi08

WAIT! What are they building on the old courthouse lot?

That is the courthouse annex that wraps around the Mobile Bar Associations Headquarters. The Courthouse property that will become the Mardi Gras Park is just east of this new building and is currently being used as the staging ground for the annex construction.

phoenixboi08 · #**3665** Posted **Mar 8, 2009, 5:11 PM**

Oh. I guess that was kinda obvious... it's really exciting to FINALLY see something being done. What about the new Fed. Courthouse? Any news on that?

BlessedMobile · #**3666** Posted **Mar 8, 2009, 8:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by phoenixboi08

Oh. I guess that was kinda obvious... it's really exciting to FINALLY see something being done. What about the new Fed. Courthouse? Any news on that?

I think many thought that the money would come from the stimulus package but that seems to be far less for infrastructure than first thought. I did read that this is one of the highest priority needs by the GSA...maybe that will help.

SouthSky · #**3667** Posted **Mar 10, 2009, 9:03 PM**

County Music Venues Coming to Alabama
Several country music singers are making a big announcement in Birmingham today. Tracy Lawrence, Marty Stuart, and Darryl Worley are holding a news conference to discuss an entertainment circuit in Alabama. They want to have venues in Dothan, Montgomery, Mobile, Birmingham and Huntsville; creating a series of major entertainment complexes. The group claims these entertainment destinations will create thousands of jobs and millions of tax dollars and charitable contributions.

http://www.myfoxal.com/dpp/news/20090310Afternoon_News_Update

Another link:

http://thebama.com/?p=169

bayou15 · #**3668** Posted **Mar 11, 2009, 3:19 AM**

http://urban.cityofmobile.org/urban_pc/items_results.php?a=fs&meeting_id=213&current_key=4119

Muskavon · #**3669** Posted **Mar 11, 2009, 4:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by SouthSky

County Music Venues Coming to Alabama
[I]Several country music singers are making a big announcement in Birmingham today. Tracy Lawrence, Marty Stuart, and Darryl Worley are holding a news conference to discuss an entertainment circuit in Alabama. They want to have venues in Dothan, Montgomery, Mobile, Birmingham and Huntsville; creating a series of major entertainment complexes.

Let me make it clear that I'm not disparaging this idea in any way. I'm not a snob who somehow thinks country music is beneath us all nor do I dispute that it can be a good thing economically and/or provide entertainment to an appreciative audience.

But I do want to make a comment that I think these singers are pretty "crafty". And I mean all these guys from the Vegas circuit to Branson to this idea. This "nostalgic" type of set up guarantees and extends their career long after it would have been over. Good for them. If it sells, I can't judge. It may not work as single acts going to dive bars at random. But as packs of has-beens singing in groups at venues, it probably works very well. I actually sort of salute this type of entrepreneurship. It's a pretty good concept IMO. Protecting their future.

That said, I've never been sold that "entertainment" of any sort grows the economy very efficiently without tourism specifically wanting to come see it. You give me $7 and I'll show you a bike trick. That doesn't grow our economy much. You give me $7 and I'll show you a bike trick while sending $5 of it to Nashville or Universal Studios seems like it might actually shrink the local economy. Now if tourists want to come...that's another equation. Maybe they have the group of Lorrie Morgans to pull that off.

Electrical Porpoise · #**3670** Posted **Mar 11, 2009, 4:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by Muskavon

Let me make it clear that I'm not disparaging this idea in any way. I'm not a snob who somehow thinks country music is beneath us all nor do I dispute that it can be a good thing economically and/or provide entertainment to an appreciative audience.

But I do want to make a comment that I think these singers are pretty "crafty". And I mean all these guys from the Vegas circuit to Branson to this idea. This "nostalgic" type of set up guarantees and extends their career long after it would have been over. Good for them. If it sells, I can't judge. It may not work as single acts going to dive bars at random. But as packs of has-beens singing in groups at venues, it probably works very well. I actually sort of salute this type of entrepreneurship. It's a pretty good concept IMO. Protecting their future.

That said, I've never been sold that "entertainment" of any sort grows the economy very efficiently without tourism specifically wanting to come see it. You give me $7 and I'll show you a bike trick. That doesn't grow our economy much. You give me $7 and I'll show you a bike trick while sending $5 of it to Nashville or Universal Studios seems like it might actually shrink the local economy. Now if tourists want to come...that's another equation. Maybe they have the group of Lorrie Morgans to pull that off.

lol, dude. it is just a small investment for them. lets not dive into it like we are on the worlds greatest acid trip.

Muskavon · #**3671** Posted **Mar 11, 2009, 4:43 AM**

How is it that someone or something named "electrical porpoise" could bring me down from an LSD trip? It is just effing wrong.

Yeah, sorry, that was too indepth. But what the hell. Not much else to talk about lately.

Anything to move away from parks.

Electrical Porpoise · #**3672** Posted **Mar 11, 2009, 4:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by Muskavon

How is it that someone or something named "electrical porpoise" could bring me down from an LSD trip? It is just effing wrong.

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Yeah, sorry, that was too indepth. But what the hell. Not much else to talk about lately.

Anything to move away from parks.

This is true. New news is good news to me. Been kind of dead lately.

nimsjus · #**3673** Posted **Mar 11, 2009, 12:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by SouthSky

County Music Venues Coming to Alabama
Several country music singers are making a big announcement in Birmingham today. Tracy Lawrence, Marty Stuart, and Darryl Worley are holding a news conference to discuss an entertainment circuit in Alabama. They want to have venues in Dothan, Montgomery, Mobile, Birmingham and Huntsville; creating a series of major entertainment complexes. The group claims these entertainment destinations will create thousands of jobs and millions of tax dollars and charitable contributions.

http://www.myfoxal.com/dpp/news/20090310Afternoon_News_Update

Another link:

http://thebama.com/?p=169

They never mention what venue they will use in Mobile. If I were a betting man, I bet they plan on using the new racetrack as their venue for Mobile or The Wharf. I doubt we get a new project to discuss out of this deal. I kind of hope it is the race track. They have always mentioned Branson style entertainment venues when discussing the entertainment portion of that project. Maybe their interest would help nudge that project of the drawing board and into reality.

nimsjus · #**3674** Posted **Mar 11, 2009, 12:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by bayou15

http://urban.cityofmobile.org/urban_pc/items_results.php?a=fs&meeting_id=213&current_key=4119

That looks good to me. What is on that corner now? Is that the lot where there used to be a crappy bank building and then they cleared it.

Electrical Porpoise · #**3675** Posted **Mar 11, 2009, 7:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by nimsjus

That looks good to me. What is on that corner now? Is that the lot where there used to be a crappy bank building and then they cleared it.

Yeah, it is just a parking lot now.

SouthSky · #**3676** Posted **Mar 11, 2009, 11:04 PM**

Turning basin funding soon?

http://blog.al.com/live/2009/03/gulf_coast_exploreum_universit.html

Electrical Porpoise · #**3677** Posted **Mar 12, 2009, 4:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by SouthSky

Turning basin funding soon?

http://blog.al.com/live/2009/03/gulf_coast_exploreum_universit.html

That would be sweet. It would be even sweeter if we had an economy that would put ships in there.

Jesus walked on water and his first present to us was money for something that sits on water. Coincidence? I think not.

BlessedMobile · #**3678** Posted **Mar 13, 2009, 3:09 AM**

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Originally Posted by Muskavon

Let me make it clear that I'm not disparaging this idea in any way. I'm not a snob who somehow thinks country music is beneath us all nor do I dispute that it can be a good thing economically and/or provide entertainment to an appreciative audience.

But I do want to make a comment that I think these singers are pretty "crafty". And I mean all these guys from the Vegas circuit to Branson to this idea. This "nostalgic" type of set up guarantees and extends their career long after it would have been over. Good for them. If it sells, I can't judge. It may not work as single acts going to dive bars at random. But as packs of has-beens singing in groups at venues, it probably works very well. I actually sort of salute this type of entrepreneurship. It's a pretty good concept IMO. Protecting their future.

That said, I've never been sold that "entertainment" of any sort grows the economy very efficiently without tourism specifically wanting to come see it. You give me $7 and I'll show you a bike trick. That doesn't grow our economy much. You give me $7 and I'll show you a bike trick while sending $5 of it to Nashville or Universal Studios seems like it might actually shrink the local economy. Now if tourists want to come...that's another equation. Maybe they have the group of Lorrie Morgans to pull that off.

ditto Musk...you can survive longer in a pack than as a solo. Sounds like a bigger version of the FAIR is coming to town.

BlessedMobile · #**3679** Posted **Mar 13, 2009, 3:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by nimsjus

That looks good to me. What is on that corner now? Is that the lot where there used to be a crappy bank building and then they cleared it.

That land is going to eventually be a hotel. Most likely a Hyatt Place. The same developer did the Hampton downtown. I know the parking guru of downtown who knows all and sometimes shares tidbits of wisdom with me...like the above.

BlessedMobile · #**3680** Posted **Mar 13, 2009, 3:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by Electrical Porpoise

That would be sweet. It would be even sweeter if we had an economy that would put ships in there.

Jesus walked on water and his first present to us was money for something that sits on water. Coincidence? I think not.

EP...Jesus , as part of the Godhead, likewise created the barrier islands which we taxpayers are determined to endlessly rebuild by spending more money to pill up sand which WILL WASH AWAY. Now there is $400,000 wasted. Pass the hat among homeowners and buy a dump truck load with the proceeds.