ABC News recently ran an article touting our area as a great alternative to the beaches of the East and West coast.

It is full of facts and figures from our Convention and Visitors Bureau as well as saying some very nice things about our area.

The Northrop Grumman tanker contract will bring many jobs and many new people to our Gulf Coast area.  Mobile will see a lot of these buyers but Baldwin County will certainly get their share as well.

Our expectations are that once they see our beaches they will want to have a little piece of it for their very own.  Many of the executives may not stay in our area but might want a place that their family can enjoy when they have to be in our area on business.

There will be a few more things to see down here along our beautiful coast soon.  It has been announced that a Publix will be built in Orange Beach at the intersection of Perdido Beach Blvd and Hwy 161.  New restaurants are also coming along, like the new Longhorn steak house at The Pinnacle.

There is even construction underway on a new restaurant on the area at the Gulf Shores Public Beach that was formerly Barefoot, Fat Tuesday and The Spot.

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The construction is over, the finishing touches are being done and the grand opening is set!  The new Hangout at the Gulf Shores Public Beach is ready to open. 

Please read the article from the Baldwin Register to get more details!

Click here to see a picture of the property.   http://mlsdata.xorbmedia.com/images/t_100_4016.JPG

Commercial experts are very excited about growth in our Gulf Coast area.  The first Gulf Coast Commercial Real Estate Summit will be held on Wednesday, February 27 from 8:30 to 4:30 at the Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center. 

This summit is sponsored by USA Mitchell College of Business and USA's Center for Continuing Education.

Their goal is to educate the public and real estate professionals as to the positive things that are happening in Mobile and Baldwin County.  They plan to offer at least the past 10 years worth of real estate trends and continuing education opportunities.

Good news fishermen!  The Gulf State Park fishing pier is coming back!  Plans were recently announced that construction will begin in November 2007 on the new, bigger, better pier with completion expcted to be in FEbruary 2009 or sooner.

The new pier will be located a little bit east of where the old pier was located and will be longer and wider with a highter elevation above sea level.

The pier has been a large part of the whole Gulf State Park experience for decades and everyone is very excited to see it coming back.

Publix Super Market has announced plans to open a 54,000 sq. ft. store this upcoming Spring in the new  Shoppes at Palm Pointe now under construction at the intersection of Perdido Beach Blvd. and Hwy 161 in Orange Beach.  Publix will be the anchor for the 194,000 sq. foot retail center.  This is the first Publix in South Alabama and we are all very excited about the addition to our area.

The Wharf is also opening a few new shops in the spring.  The main one will be Guy Harvey's Island Grill to open in April.  He will also open the Guy Harvey Art Gallery next to the restaurant and a Guy Harvey clothing store.  This will be very exciting for all of the deep see fishermen I am sure. 

The rental market for the Alabama Gulf Coast is doing better that ever.   The summer of 2007 has been a record breaker for many units and it is not over yet!

Bookings are up approximatley 24% from spring 2006.

Click here to read full Mobile Press article

October 10, 2007

We received an update on the rental situation from Herb Malone with the Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau and the numbers are GOOD, no they are GREAT! 

2004 was our last recore-breaking year for rentals and 2007 has beat those numbers handily.  The summer season (June-August) was up 13.2% from 2004 and the spring season (March-May) was up a respectable 2.2%. 

The special events our area hosts as well as the cooperative efforts of businesses of all types have all worked to help make this summer our best ever.

ThyssenKrupp, a major international steel manufacturer from Germany, will build a new plant near Mount Vernon in northern Mobile County.  This will bring approximately 30,000 jobs to southern Alabama during construction and will employ 2,700 when it begins operations.  The peojected completion date of the plant is 2010.  The company will ship in steel from one of its' other plants in Brazil and manufacture parts for industry in the Alabama factory.

This is a major boon to the economy of south western Alabama and puts us near the top of the steel industry in the US.

This link is to an article about the expected real estae boom in the northern Mobile County area as well as Baldwin County.  http://www.al.com/press-register/stories/index.ssf?/base/business/117965295020410.xml&coll=3  ( you may need to cut & paste)

Baldwin County has been kicked out of first place!  St. Claire county, near Birmingham, is now the fastest growing county in the State of Alabama.  Don't worry, though, since Baldwin County is still up there at #2.

Click here to read article from the Mobile Press

Recently the beautiful white sand beachs of the Alabama Gulf Coast have been ranked as some of the best in the nation. 

If you are interested in looking into investing along the Alabama Gulf Coast you are at the right place!  Just drop us a line by e-mail or give us a call.  Click the Contact Us button on the left of your screen.

Associated Press Article

AOL Travel recently added Gulf Shores to it's list of Top 10 Beach Bargains.  This is a great thing for our area and we hope to see more visitors this summer than we did last summer!

Click this link to read the article  :  http://travel.aol.com/travel/DepartmentPage?id=1000050

Currently Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and several other coastal communities are discussing the possiblity of "captive" insurance for condo projects along our beaches.  This will allow the buildings to be rated individually with their insurance rates reflecting their ranking instead of being insured under the "blanket" type coverage offered now.  This is a form of "self insurance" previously not availabe in Alabama.

Please read this Mobile Press article for more details.

A Montgomery firm is working to open offices along the Alabama Gulf Coast to offer captive insurance.

Click here to view the Mobile Press article

Recently a move was made to allow the captive insurers to cover automobiles as well as home.  This will, hopefully, intice them to move into the Alabama Coast as this is a major source of money for insurers.

Read the Mobile Press Article

The State of Alabama just named the Wolf Bay wahtershed as an "Outstanding Alabama Water".  This means that the watershed  and it's high water quality are vitally important to the environment.

Please read the following Mobile Press Register.

Everyone is very excited about the announcement that Northrop Grumman will be building air refueling tankers in Mobile.  They were competing against Boeing in Seattle, WA for the contract.

"The deal includes 179 aircraft to be delivered by Northrop and its bidding partner, EADS North America, over the next 15 years. The team plans to assemble its tankers, which are based on a French-made Airbus jet, in a pair of new plants at Mobile's Brookley Field Industrial Complex, creating 1,500 jobs. "

Boeing has contested the awarding of the contract and has held hearings in Washington.  One of their issues is that they did not give the contract to an American company.  While Northrop Brumman is not based in the US, the people who will be actually building the refueling systems and modifying the airplanes ARE Americans, mostly Alabamians.

Click link to read more information on the controversy:  http://www.al.com/news/press-register/index.ssf?/base/news/120488491375810.xml&coll=3