Mobile Development Thread - Page 24

CottonCity251 · #**461** Posted **Jul 31, 2007, 1:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by bayourat 15

BIG NEWS ON THURSDAY!

About what?

SouthSky · #**462** Posted **Jul 31, 2007, 6:42 AM**

Yeah... I'm kind of wondering myself...

bayourat 15 · #**463** Posted **Jul 31, 2007, 8:26 PM**

Hint: it rhymes with the name of a stadium in Montgomery

Scottybo · #**464** Posted **Jul 31, 2007, 10:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by bayourat 15

Hint: it rhymes with the name of a stadium in Montgomery

Ok, now you're about as annoying as monty!!

lol

SouthSky · #**465** Posted **Jul 31, 2007, 11:10 PM**

The Hampton Inn? What's the news... I thought they had already announced it?

nimsjus · #**466** Posted **Jul 31, 2007, 11:59 PM**

New lagniappe is out. Articles of interest include...
New downtown food options inculding Market at 219 and several new eateries downtown.
http://www.lagniappemobile.com/article/1015
Article on Mardi Gras park proposal and the underfunding of existing parks.
http://www.lagniappemobile.com/article/999
Real Deal article discusses a new market at Govt and George in Oakleigh. Developer is a NO native who wants to mimic Camellia Grill inside and Cafe Du Monde outside. I am most excited because they will be doing beignets, which surprisingly are rarely seen in Mobile despite it being a smaller, cleaner NO.
http://www.lagniappemobile.com/article/1012

bayourat 15 · #**467** Posted **Aug 1, 2007, 2:37 AM**

grabing there shovels

CottonCity251 · #**468** Posted **Aug 1, 2007, 3:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by bayourat 15

grabing there shovels

What are you talking about?

SouthSky · #**469** Posted **Aug 1, 2007, 4:41 AM**

Ohhhhh.... okay. I like what I am hearing.

nimsjus · #**470** Posted **Aug 2, 2007, 8:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by bayourat 15

BIG NEWS ON THURSDAY!

Thursday is coming an going... What happened/was supposed to happen? Im assuming ground breaking on the Hampton from hints, but I have not see/heard any coverage.

NitekKetin · #**471** Posted **Aug 2, 2007, 9:47 PM**

When I drove by the Hampton site, last night, there were bulldozers and other construction equipment in the parking lot.

elb401 · #**472** Posted **Aug 2, 2007, 10:56 PM**

There used to be a few places that sold beignets......most started closing in the 1970s and 1980s. My parents and grandparents....native mobilians still make them.

Dale · #**473** Posted **Aug 3, 2007, 2:13 AM**

So what was the big news ?

sahara727 · #**474** Posted **Aug 3, 2007, 4:30 AM**

it was a groundbreaking ceremony. i walked by it while headed to the post office. sam jones & co. were all there, as were the cheesy gilded shovels. nice to see that they're getting started, though.

bayourat 15 · #**475** Posted **Aug 3, 2007, 4:41 AM**

bayourat 15 · #**476** Posted **Aug 3, 2007, 4:42 AM**

Today that went down, Now its time for the CROWN!

Musicisright · #**477** Posted **Aug 3, 2007, 7:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by bayourat 15

Today that went down, Now its time for the CROWN!

The crown? You're kind of talking crazy. Whatchu talkin' 'bout? Will you please tell us without being vague?

SouthSky · #**478** Posted **Aug 3, 2007, 7:10 AM**

The crown on the Riverview. (I think)

nimsjus · #**479** Posted **Aug 3, 2007, 12:59 PM**

I dont know anything about any crowns, but here is some downtown news...
St. Louis Street could be two-way by year's end
Friday, August 03, 2007By JEFF AMYStaff Reporter
Traffic on downtown's St. Louis Street could flow both ways before the end of the year, following contracts approved Tuesday by the Mobile City Council.

The city will pay to install additional traffic signals at four intersections on St. Louis and realign the intersection of St. Louis, Broad Street and Spring Hill Avenue.

Spectrum Associates will install the signals as part of a larger $121,723.50 contract.

Peavy Construction Co. will overhaul the Broad Street intersection for $36,640 under another city contract.

A stretch of Spring Hill -- west of Broad, in front of the post office -- also will be converted to two-way flow.

City Traffic Engineer Bill Metzger said the intersection work will allow people traveling westbound on Spring Hill and St. Louis to continue west across Broad on Spring Hill, instead of turning right on Broad and then left on St. Anthony Street to continue westbound.

Metzger said the intersection overhaul would begin soon, with work on the remainder of St. Louis to follow.

The markings on St. Louis will be repainted, but the street will not be repaved, Metzger said.

Some on-street parking places will be removed to make room for left-turn lanes, Metzger said, but the city will try to minimize the loss of spaces.

Many downtown Mobile streets were converted to one-way flow at mid-century in an effort to speed traffic. But today's urban planners say two-way traffic is more friendly to downtown

redevelopment and pedestrians.

Development interest on St. Louis has perked up in recent years, with one loft condominium complex nearing completion.

Earlier this year, the city reinstituted two-way traffic on Royal Street and on one-block stretches of Dauphin and St. Francis streets between Royal and Water. That was done mainly to accommodate the RSA Battle House Tower.

Future targets for two-way traffic could include St. Joseph Street, which currently runs one-way southbound, and St. Francis from Royal to Broad, which currently runs one-way westbound.

bayourat 15 · #**480** Posted **Aug 3, 2007, 9:13 PM**

Crown Royal....street

(Riverview )