Mobile Development Thread - Page 38

CottonCity251 · #**741** Posted **Nov 18, 2007, 10:39 PM**

Nothing big. I went down there yesterday and there were way more developments on existing building then mentioned on the Downtown Mobile Alliance's website.

CottonCity251 · #**742** Posted **Nov 22, 2007, 4:46 PM**

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

pboo74 · #**743** Posted **Nov 27, 2007, 11:47 PM**

went home wednesday and alot of work is going on downtown and it looks good,but still has a ways to go,we need more infill a couple or more of 10-12 stories or so downtown?

nimsjus · #**744** Posted **Nov 29, 2007, 3:43 PM**

Kind of downtownish...A little industry
Berg Spiral Pipe on track to open in September
Company names key Mobile managers Tuesday, November 27, 2007By KAIJA WILKINSONBusiness Reporter
Berg Spiral Pipe Corp. reports that it is on schedule to start production in less than a year as its $75 million plant takes shape on the old International Paper site near the Mobile River.
The plant's 200,000-square-foot pipe building is expected to be finished this week, and about $40,000 worth of equipment, most of it from Germany, is expected to arrive in February, said Dave Delie, president and chief executive officer.
Next to the main pipe building, foundation work has begun on an 80,000-square-foot pipe coating facility, he said. Steel for that building will start going up in January, Delie said.
Parent company Panama City, Fla.-based Berg Steel Pipe Corp., a subsidiary of German EUROPIPE, has hired a human resources manager and controller for the Mobile plant, and continues to interview for key management positions, he said.
Lynn Funchess, human resources manager at Berg's Florida headquarters, said the new hires, both of Mobile, are Stephen Landry, controller, who is a certified public accountant with more than 11 years' experience, and Jim Key, human resources and safety manager, who has nearly 30 years' experience.
Both men live in Mobile, she said.
With the help of Alabama Industrial Development Training, the company plans to start hiring hourly employees early next year, Delie said.
Pay will start at $12 to $13 per hour, but production incentives could tack on 20 to 30 percent, Delie said.
The plant ultimately may employ more than 100 people.
"We are right on schedule," he said. "We will start doing some tests in July and August (of 2008), and be in production in September."
Delie said large oil and gas transmission companies -- The Williams Cos. Inc., BP PLC, Duke Energy Corp., El Paso Corp. and TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. -- will be the main customers of the large-diameter (or spiral) pipe produced in Mobile. "The demand is strong," he said.
City, state and Berg officials announced in May that they had signed a deal to build a pipe plant in Mobile, following the sale of 86 acres of Alabama State Port Authority property to Berg for $2.6 million.
The deal included about $6.6 million in incentives.

trmdrftr · #**745** Posted **Nov 29, 2007, 5:22 PM**

Can anyone tell me when they are going to start the Bring Back Broad Street Project and how long they are expecting it to take to complete?

SouthSky · #**746** Posted **Nov 30, 2007, 5:42 PM**

The Press-Register had a picture of the Renaissance Riverview spire being erected in the paper and the online edition today.

Here is the pic:

CottonCity251 · #**747** Posted **Nov 30, 2007, 6:36 PM**

Out of a scale of one to ten, what would you'll rate the Riverview's crown?

I myself would give it a 6 now from the renderings that I saw but that may change when its complete.

Alxx611 · #**748** Posted **Nov 30, 2007, 9:30 PM**

Two renderings were released.

In this one it looks bad because 1. Its a black building with a white and greenish spire and 2. its a round/square spire on an oval building. and 3. its in the middle of the roof and doesnt start on one end of the roof and end at the other, its just plopped in the middle:

In this rendering though, I think it looks badass:

bayou15 · #**749** Posted **Nov 30, 2007, 10:18 PM**

374ft + crown150ft = 524ft........second tallest in the state

NitekKetin · #**750** Posted **Dec 1, 2007, 12:55 AM**

Too bad they couldn't relocate that air conditioning equipment and use that space for a high-end roof-top restaurant. Can you imagine the views of Downtown and Mobile Bay from up there!

CottonCity251 · #**751** Posted **Dec 1, 2007, 2:11 AM**

I don't think the spire is going to be specfic colors, more like a stainless steel or chrome...?? The color of the new panels on the window? I just hope it has lighting.

Musicisright · #**752** Posted **Dec 1, 2007, 7:29 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by bayou15

374ft + crown150ft = 524ft........second tallest in the state

The news said it'll be 434 feet tall when it's finished. Would that still make it the second tallest in Alabama? That's a pretty sneaky way of adding feet.

NitekKetin · #**753** Posted **Dec 1, 2007, 8:29 AM**

The second tallest in the State is more than 450'.

CottonCity251 · #**754** Posted **Dec 1, 2007, 2:43 PM**

I thought the crown is suppose to be 125 feet? If this is so, the building would stand right at 500 feet tall, or 499 feet to be exact.

bayou15 · #**755** Posted **Dec 1, 2007, 7:56 PM**

http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/? Looking at the diagram she is at 374ft now. Reports last week in the Mobile Press stated it would be 150ft. But i heard 125ft the most, so who neauxs ?

But what ever it is . It will make the skyline look awesome

Maybe someone with money will see this ,and redo the loook of the Amsouth bank building it's becoming an eyesore like the civic center

GEAUX TIGERS !!

NitekKetin · #**756** Posted **Dec 1, 2007, 9:13 PM**

I would think Emporis' figure is more substantial than this site's diagram.

nimsjus · #**757** Posted **Dec 2, 2007, 2:38 PM**

From today's real estate column in the Press Register-
Water Street Cafe has opened in the Moorer YMCA at 101 N. Water St., according to owner Richard Walsh . He had previously owned and operated The Lunch Box Cafe at the Gulf Coast Exploreum at 65 Government St. Exploreum officials say a new restaurant is now serving lunch, Creative Catering .

bayou15 · #**758** Posted **Dec 2, 2007, 2:43 PM**

thanks 4 da update

Musicisright · #**759** Posted **Dec 2, 2007, 7:58 PM**

I got to see the Riverview yesterday and the huuuuge crane. Even though it's still way early in construction, I think I'll like the crown.

Also, the Hampton Inn is coming along very nicely! There are huge concrete pillars coming from the ground. Sorry, I'm not a construction expert so I don't know the correct term for them.

CottonCity251 · #**760** Posted **Dec 5, 2007, 7:00 PM**

Check this out from The Birmingham News...

Airbus may set Mobile, Alabama, plant to build commercial planes
Plans hinge on tanker contract with Air Force

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

DAWN KENT
News staff writer

Airbus could make commercial planes in the United States, with Mobile being a likely choice for the work, a German business publication reported Monday.

WirtschaftsWoche said Airbus is looking into establishing an assembly operation in the U.S. or Russia to lessen the impact of the falling dollar on its finances.

The weekly said Mobile is the most likely choice for Airbus' fourth assembly operation.

Airbus parent EADS already has plans to build an assembly plant in Mobile if it and partner Northrop Grumman win a contract to produce tanker aircraft for the Air Force. A decision on the contract, which could be worth up to $100 billion, is expected next year.

Alabama Development Office Director Neal Wade said his office is aware of the report and is seeking clarification from the company on what it might mean for the state.

"We've always hoped that, whether it was the tanker or something else, there would be some type of EADS presence in Mobile," he said.

English newspaper The Guardian said on its Web site Monday that EADS sources confirmed that Airbus could set up a new plant in Mobile for the final assembly of civil aircraft, alongside the A330-based air-to-air refueling plane for the Air Force. "But a precondition would be that we win the tanker contract," a source told the paper.

Airbus has been hurt by the falling value of the U.S. currency because its planes are priced in dollars but its costs are calculated in euros. The dollar has fallen sharply this year compared to the euro.

The U.S. currency's decline against the euro has been so dramatic that "we have no choice" but to move production of aircraft doors, fuselage parts and wing components outside Europe, EADS Chief Executive Officer Louis Gallois said in an interview on Paris-based radio station Europe1.

Airbus, which lost $839 million last year, plans to sell six plants in Europe and eliminate 10,000 jobs to help reduce costs. Airbus needs to have a supply base in countries either that offer low costs or are in the "dollar zone," Gallois said in the broadcast.

"We're not saying we may have to do this, we're saying we will do this," Gallois told Europe1.

Airbus now has two assembly plants in Europe and began construction in May on another near Beijing. It should open in 2011. Bloomberg News contributed to this report.