Bayou Shipbuilder Booming
Travis Short looks out the picture window in his Bayou La Batre office and points out the diversity of Horizon Shipbuilding’s clientele. To...
An Immigrant’s Business Odyssey
Crowds form quickly at Von’s Bistro. During prime time dining, the line at this downtown Mobile culinary destination may extend beyond the door,...
A Big Show to Recruit Engineers
ABOVE Aboard the replica 1851 America, students learn the varied ways engineers can put their skills to use. For...
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...
