Great pictures!! thanks for sharing them. OH next time your downtown....go to the saenger theater and take pictures of their murals. They're great too.
The Saenger Theater was closed for some reason. The shot of downtown from the North was taken from five stories up on a fire escape.
Let me say I was in downtown at night for the first time in quite a while and I'm very impressed with the night life. Its way more active, lit up, and more places to go than I remember. And it only seems to be getting better, with all these coming soon signs. I'm really excited about the Crecent Theater. Its still midway through construction.
No, Its an art class I'm taking at MHS. We have a small class of about 8 people and we usually behave pretty good, so our teacher took us down there. She's really cool, considering she allowed us on the fire escape, Cathedral tower, and it was her awesome idea to go inside the GM&O building, something I would have never thought of doing.
Here's some more views from the fire escape, if they look familiar to you, MusicisRight:
The Escape itself
And may I add the tower looking amazing at Bayfest last night?
Yeah dude, that's the same fire escape I climbed! Pretty freaky at night, too. Yes, I couldn't stop looking at the tower last night at BayFest. I think it hypnotized me.
"The partners said that they expect their investment to be one of the largest in downtown, after the Retirement Systems of Alabama's RSA Battle House Tower and Battle House Hotel projects."
Thats great. I think we need more stuff like this downtown. I will improve everything from nightlife, to business owners making more money, to just seeing more faces downtown. I like this.
I'm curious how many of these upscale lofts are being lived in and how many are bought by investors. Not being a pessimist, but I just don't see thousands of Mobilians/out of towners wanting to pay big bucks to live in decked out pads downtown. This project, the Carriage House, and the new construction on St. Francis seems like about all the high end we can handle for now(maybe too much). I'm glad to hear that the gayfers building will be full. It is in such a critical location and when it is empty that block feels empty. I also liked that they would be salvaging parts of the building deemed historically signifficant(and entrance of St. Emmanuel I believe) but updating the Dauphin St entrance with a glass facade. A little old, and a little new. I'm also very glad to see that retail is planned for the Dauphin St entrance. I also like to see that these prjects are popping up all across the downtown core, and not just along one street. This will help spur retail across the entire core as well.
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OH next time your downtown....go to the saenger theater and take pictures of their murals. They're great too.
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