Enterprise as Therapy
They make protective sleeves for plants using brown paper and glue. They cut, sharpen and paint wooden stakes that hold real estate yard...
Gulf Coast Landmark Reborn
It’s hailed as the first skyscraper on the Gulf Coast and one of the first in the Southeast, an 11-story reinforced concrete, ...
Chief Activist for the Retired
Even being voted “most likely to succeed” in your Theodore High School graduating class is no guarantee in life. But Jo Ann Jenkins’...
Mystic Fantastic LLC
Actually, nothing is typical around Ron Barrett’s business. King Tut’s sarcophagus shares space with Wizard of Oz figurines and enormous dragon heads. ...
Spotlight on Baldwin County
Baldwin County is home to the beautiful Alabama Gulf Coast beaches. Those beaches — and the area surrounding them, which boast sports venues,...
High Seas Adventure Travel
She is 14, frightened, packed in a tiny ship, voyaging from France to Mobile. In 1704 the teenage Parisian set sail...
ASPA: Alabama Port Already Bulked Up for World’s Giant Ships
If anything concerns the Alabama State Port Authority (ASPA), it isn’t the Port of Mobile’s ability to handle the increase in volume of larger...
Ken Jansen – Grits for The Grand and Everybody Else
Working after hours can be a grind for 71-year-old Ken Jansen, and he wouldn’t have it any other way.
Jansen works during the day at...
Multifamily Housing – Downtown Digs, Coast to Coast
President and founder of Birmingham-based Capstone Building Corp., Jay Chapman is one of the leading Alabama general contractors in one of the few truly...
Flood Maps Re-engineered for Big Bucks
Dozens of new beachfront condos built in Orange Beach and Gulf Shores, including many condos built in place of developments destroyed by Hurricane Ivan,...