Mobile without the ,Alabama?
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008Forget water coolers and cubicles - - all the talk everywhere is and will be for sometime the landing of the Airbus contract on our Brookley Field. The economic impact not just for the City and County but for the entire State will be enormous. It seems Mobile has become a money magnet and the Europeans apparently have a thing for us. We are kind of cute, aren’t we, stretched out on a tranquil bay, our arms around two beaches? Congratulations to all who worked diligently over the past three years to assure the Air Force, NG and EADS that our city is worthy of such a big contract. Fingers crossed that Boeing’s expected protest will heard but not listened too, and that other businesses will begin to pay closer attention to Mobile ( I expect the Disney folks are already here scouting around for a lot of acreage and that I-65 is backed up all the way to Atlanta with the corporate exodus from there to here -LOL). Having traveled quite a bit I am sometimes flustered having to say “Mobile,Alabama” when asked from where I hail - instead of just “Mobile.” It seems we are moving much closer to being a City instead of just a city. March really did come in like a lion! Hope to cover this and more in my Lagniappe County View column.