Mobile Development Thread - Page 194

Port_of_Bama · #**3861** Posted **Apr 29, 2009, 11:51 PM**

Blessed my frind I under estimated you and thought of you differently. What I am saying is that I wouldn`t think that anyone else besides Me,Cottencity,and electrical purpose would know about Rogers ,lol. It`s the glaze on the ribs man !!!! lol

BlessedMobile · #**3862** Posted **Apr 30, 2009, 2:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by Port_of_Bama

Blessed my frind I under estimated you and thought of you differently. What I am saying is that I wouldn`t think that anyone else besides Me,Cottencity,and electrical purpose would know about Rogers ,lol. It`s the glaze on the ribs man !!!! lol

A few years ago I had dealings with the owner who was a pretty nice guy from what I remember. He had bought the business from the Rogers family.
It's been a while since I have been there but I remember it as being a little hole-in-the-wall place with a few tables and a lot of takeout. Good food. and the sauce did get high marks. I think some of the best BBQ in town is found around Five Points but that is largely under the radar. Don't keep the names of all the best places to yourself...share with your buds!

nimsjus · #**3863** Posted **Apr 30, 2009, 2:46 AM**

My family has been doing Rogers forever. I love that place. It used to be really convenient way back in the day when they cooked out of that old gas station by Davidson. I was pissed when they closed that store. My dad would still go across town to get those ribs. I also like Brick Pit, Dreamland and Saucy Qs too. Anybody know the name of the BBQ spot of DIP? Someone brought some to one of the places I was working and it was pretty good too.

nimsjus · #**3864** Posted **Apr 30, 2009, 11:31 AM**

This si the oddest idea to me. I hope it works and is a boom for the city. I can't imagine that they are going to be able to get financing in todays lending market (the idea is just to risky).
School board signs letter of intent with sports complex developers
Thursday, April 30, 2009
By RENA HAVNER PHILIPS
Staff Reporter
Receiving a nod from the Mobile County school board, developers of a proposed $1 billion sports complex off Interstate 10 said they will now start signing retailers to participate in what officials are calling an ambitious project.
The five-member school board Tuesday unanimously agreed to sign a letter of intent with the C.P. Newdome Foundation.
The foundation has proposed building a complex with athletic facilities — including a football stadium, a basketball arena, a water park, a shooting range and sports fields — as well as a hotel and convention and retail space.
The foundation has also proposed building a career-technical school on-site for the school system.
The Sports Complex of the Americas would sit on up to 1,500 acres of land at the McDonald Road exit in Theodore, including about 500 acres that belongs to the school system.
The letter of intent gives the foundation time to market the project, solicit commercial retailers and obtain financing commitments from investors. Steve Hanley, chairman of the foundation's development committee, said the foundation needs until at least November to work out all the details.
During that time, the school system will not seek other tenants for the valuable land as long as the foundation is making progress, board member Bill Meredith said. But if someone else wants the land, the school board would be able to get out of the agreement with 90 days' notice.
Meredith, whose district includes the land in question, said he has his doubts that the complex will ever be developed. But, he said, he wishes the foundation well.
The board had rejected a similar letter of intent with the foundation last month, saying it wanted support from the Mobile County Commission first.
The commission unanimously approved a resolution April 13 stating that it would "favorably consider" establishing a tax district on the land. A tax district there would allow the developers to raise the sales tax from
5cm HALF cents to 9cm HALF cents, with the extra 4 cents going to the developers to pay back construction bonds.
Cece Hylton, a spokeswoman for the foundation, said some retailers have already expressed interest in the complex, as have entertainment agencies in Branson, Mo., and Nashville, Tenn., and one of the "largest indoor-outdoor water parks."
"We feel very positive that we will not have a problem doing what we want do to," Hylton said.
Hanley said he expects to be able to make "major announcements" about the complex in about two weeks.

Electrical Porpoise · #**3865** Posted **Apr 30, 2009, 6:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by Port_of_Bama

Blessed my frind I under estimated you and thought of you differently. What I am saying is that I wouldn`t think that anyone else besides Me,Cottencity,and electrical purpose would know about Rogers ,lol. It`s the glaze on the ribs man !!!! lol

I used to go there a lot when I worked on Conception -- really nice people.

In Tuscaloosa there is Archibald's and then everything else.

Bogue · #**3866** Posted **May 1, 2009, 4:34 AM**

I would love for the sports complex to work out. I could, at minimum, see them making a play for the retail areas they've mentioned as well as the water park. Dunno' how much they can cobble together for the rest, though.

Scottybo · #**3867** Posted **May 1, 2009, 6:21 PM**

Anyone been following the Bruno's sale? 56 stores were bought with 31 remaining open and the other 25 going into liquidation. Only stores I've heard about that will close in our area through liquidation is the store at Hillcrest and Cottage Hill and Orange Beach. Only 6 out of 19 stores in Birmingham will remain open.

All of this is pending approval, of course.

Electrical Porpoise · #**3868** Posted **May 1, 2009, 7:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by Scottybo

Anyone been following the Bruno's sale? 56 stores were bought with 31 remaining open and the other 25 going into liquidation. Only stores I've heard about that will close in our area through liquidation is the store at Hillcrest and Cottage Hill and Orange Beach. Only 6 out of 19 stores in Birmingham will remain open.

All of this is pending approval, of course.

Here is the list. Click the link for the closed stores.

Most Bruno's stores in Mobile area would stay open under Southern Family Markets bid; Birmingham and Montgomery hard-hit

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According to the list, stores to remain open are:
Bruno's No. 51, 3780 Riverchase Village, Hoover.
Bruno's No. 70, 509 S. Alabama 119, Alabaster.
Bruno's No. 84, 2001 E. McFarland Blvd., Tuscaloosa.
Bruno's No. 304, 100 Plantation Point Shopping Center, Fairhope.
Bruno's No. 306, 1545 Gulf Shores Parkway, Gulf Shores.
Bruno's No. 309, 6729 Spanish Fort Blvd., Spanish Fort.
Bruno's No. 310, 306 S. University Blvd., Mobile.
Bruno's No. 323, 4350 Old Shell Road, Mobile.
Food World No. 15, Cullman Shopping Center, Cullman.
Food World No. 27, 4400 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa.
Food World No. 30, 251 Mary Esther Cutoff, Mary Esther, Fla.
Food World No. 49, 3225 Rainbow Drive, Rainbow City.
Food World No. 53, 518 Pelham Pkwy., Pelham.
Food World No. 54, 216 Green Springs Highway, Homewood.
Food World No. 58, 2891 Allison-Bonnett Memorial Drive, Hueytown.
Food World No. 61, 4055 Cottage Hill Road, Mobile.
Food World No. 114, 2501 Government Blvd., Mobile.
Food World No. 124, 2519 W. Meighan Blvd., Gadsden.
Food World No. 141, 8084 Davis Highway, Pensacola.
Food World No. 142, 4320 Lillian Highway, Pensacola.
Food World No. 145, 309 Main St., Trussville.
Food World No. 213, 6032 W. U.S. 90, Milton, Fla.
Food World No. 223, 7859 Pine Forest Road, Pensacola.
Food World No. 234, 4200 McFarland Blvd, Tuscaloosa.
Food World No. 247, 641 Bear Creek Road, Tuscaloosa.
Food World No. 330, 2962 Dauphin Island Parkway, Mobile.
Food World No. 334, 3710 Dauphin St., Mobile.
Food World No. 337, 112 Saraland Loop Road, Saraland.
Food World No. 339, 7361 Theodore-Dawes Road, Theodore.
Food World No. 362, 4051 Barrancas Ave., Pensacola.
Food World No. 369, 1104 John Sims Parkway, Niceville, Fla.

Electrical Porpoise · #**3869** Posted **May 1, 2009, 7:08 PM**

Rep. John Murtha drops push to split Air Force tanker contract between Boeing and Northrop

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A proposal by U.S. Rep. John Murtha to split the Air Force tanker contract between Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. will not be included in this year's supplemental war spending bill, according to the congressman.
fileRep. John Murtha

Murtha, D-Pa., the chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees defense spending, said he was abandoning his push to add language to the bill that would have directed the Pentagon to buy planes from both manufacturers.

Murtha "remains committed to working out a plan that gets tankers in the air faster," a spokesman said today. He said Murtha intends to make another push for the dual buy later this year, when the appropriations committee begins crafting the fiscal 2010 defense budget.

Murtha, backed by Alabama congressmen Jo Bonner, R-Mobile, and Artur Davis, D-Birmingham, saw the split as a potential compromise to break a political stalemate between the two rival teams and help the Air Force get its planes.

But the proposal had a powerful opponent in Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who said the dual buy was a bad deal for taxpayers and the Air Force.

U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., a strong supporter of Boeing, told the Press-Register this week that he also opposed the split.

Bonner and Davis are hoping Northrop can land at least a piece of the potential $40 billion contract because the company would build its KC-45 tankers in a proposed $600 million, 1,500-worker factory in Mobile.

New tankers are the Air Force's top priority. The service wants the new planes to replace its aging fleet of KC-135 Stratotankers, which have been flying on average for nearly 50 years.

Gates has said he intends to move forward with a winner-take-all competition for the coveted deal beginning this summer, with a contract for 179 planes awarded early next year

mobile · #**3870** Posted **May 2, 2009, 7:54 PM**

That split contract is BS we should get the whole thing down here. We won and thats that. If we had lost we wouldn't have been able to cry about it and get a split.

mobile · #**3871** Posted **May 2, 2009, 7:57 PM**

that sports complex and water park would be great. Although I wish the could put the water park in the woods DT behing Orange Grove. Since Orange Grove is tore down build that area up nicer and rebuild orange in a different spot of mobile.

Bogue · #**3872** Posted **May 2, 2009, 9:21 PM**

I was under the impression that they were building some kind of new mixed-income housing in that area... HopeV or HopeIV or something like that?

Port_of_Bama · #**3873** Posted **May 3, 2009, 3:04 AM**

Yeah they are builing new homes in that area. That water park sounds realy nice i hope it isn`t nothing cheesy but a good money draw.

mobile · #**3874** Posted **May 3, 2009, 3:39 AM**

Well I still wish that they would do something with that huge wooded area behind orange grove. Woods dont belong in a downtown metro area. IMO

NitekKetin · #**3875** Posted **May 3, 2009, 7:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by mobile

Well I still wish that they would do something with that huge wooded area behind orange grove. Woods dont belong in a downtown metro area. IMO

I'd like to see the 'wooded area' around Orange Grove developed into a nice regional park, like an eastern counterpart to west Mobile's municipal park. It could even feature a golf course, nicely-sized lake and amphitheater. There have been plans for a large scale park in that area for decades. A reinvigorated residential community can be built between it and Downtown.

nimsjus · #**3876** Posted **May 3, 2009, 11:02 AM**

In downtown news from Kathy Jumper's column...
"MLK Redevelopment Corp. has a contract to buy 4.1 acres at Congress and Broad streets, and plans to build a 38,000-square-foot retail center, according to Michael Pierce, executive director of the nonprofit group. The land is owned by the Mobile Coun ty Health Department and the sale should be finalized soon, Pierce said."

Also for any Auburn Alums, the column above also mentions the opening of a Momma Goldberg's Deli in Mobile. It say they will open in early August and will be located on Airport in Yester Oaks Shopping Center. For those of you that didnt go to Auburn, the origianl Momma G's is in this little old house right next to campus. They serve steamed sandwiches, beer, and nachos (doritos with melted peperjack cheese steamed on top) until about 3AM. They now have franchises in Auburn, Bham(Homewood), Tuscaloosa, Lagrange Ga, and Montgomery, with Mobile and Dothan on the way. I think that location is terrible and I will be moving before it opens, but I love Momma G's sandwiches. I think they would have been better off to be located closer to USA or downtown, but hopefully they do well at this location.

OCA REP · #**3877** Posted **May 3, 2009, 3:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by nimsjus

I think that location is terrible and I will be moving before it opens, but I love Momma G's sandwiches. I think they would have been better off to be located closer to USA or downtown, but hopefully they do well at this location.

Similar situation here in MGM. The Mommas here is located way out east in a suburban strip shopping center. Would have tons more character closer into town... maybe near Huntingdon College in an older house/building. As an AU grad I love the food, but it is not conveniently located for me to visit there too often. I will just eat at the original when up there for games, etc.

Port_of_Bama · #**3878** Posted **May 4, 2009, 11:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by mobile

Well I still wish that they would do something with that huge wooded area behind orange grove. Woods dont belong in a downtown metro area. IMO

Yeah your right it doesn`t and making it into a nice park with apartments would be a good look also.

There is some sort of construction going on at the corner of Springhill and Broad near the Mobile County health daprtment. It seems as if they are building a fountain there right in that little median does anyone know ?

nimsjus · #**3879** Posted **May 4, 2009, 1:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by Port_of_Bama

Yeah your right it doesn`t and making it into a nice park with apartments would be a good look also.

There is some sort of construction going on at the corner of Springhill and Broad near the Mobile County health daprtment. It seems as if they are building a fountain there right in that little median does anyone know ?

I think they are calling that a park. There was an article a while back posted on here about that little strip/triangle there.

CottonCity251 · #**3880** Posted **May 4, 2009, 1:22 PM**

From the Press-Register...

Mobile City Councilman Fred Richardson's New Year's Eve Moon Pie drop drew 12,000 people to downtown Mobile last year. Now it might be drawing a new business to the city.

Richardson recently forwarded the Press-Register an e-mail from Tory Johnston, vice president for marketing at Chattanooga Bakery, which makes Moon Pies. Johnston said the company wants to open a "MoonPie General Store" somewhere in the Mobile area for a six-month trial run from November to April 2010.

If the store is successful, it would open in a permanent location in the fall of 2010.

In addition to the marshmallow-and-graham-cracker treat, the Moon Pie General Store would also sell Moon Pie-themed T-shirts, hats, toys and other gifts.

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Sounds good...should/must be downtown.