Local coverage
Project conversations across Mobile County and the central Gulf Coast.
What's covered depends on which independent providers are taking on work at a given time. Each community page below walks through the housing stock and site conditions that tend to matter there.
Prichard
Prichard developed just north of downtown Mobile as an industrial and shipping-adjacent community through the early twentieth cent...
Local planning notes →Saraland
Saraland grew north of Mobile along Interstate 65 as a bedroom community starting in the 1950s and 60s, incorporating in 1957 as M...
Local planning notes →Chickasaw
Chickasaw was built rapidly during World War II to house workers at the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company, growing from far...
Local planning notes →Semmes
Semmes sits in western Mobile County and grew more slowly than the city's northern suburbs, developing as a lower-density, more ru...
Local planning notes →Theodore
Theodore lies south of Mobile on flat coastal-plain land closer to the industrial corridor along the Mobile River delta, and its g...
Local planning notes →Tillmans Corner
Tillmans Corner grew as an unincorporated commercial and residential hub southwest of Mobile in the second half of the twentieth c...
Local planning notes →Dauphin Island
Dauphin Island is a barrier island at the mouth of Mobile Bay that has been rebuilt more than once after direct hurricane strikes,...
Local planning notes →Bayou La Batre
Bayou La Batre is a historic Gulf Coast fishing and seafood-industry village southwest of Mobile, long known as 'the Seafood Capit...
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