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Alabama Port Authority marks one year of 50-foot ship channel
Just over one year after the Mobile Ship Channel reached its authorized depth of 50 feet, the Alabama Port Authority (APA) has closed the strongest revenue year in its history. Since the channel opened to its full depth on October 3, 2025, 168 vessels have transited it with a recorded...
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This Mississippi Fabric Shop Fills Room After Room With So Much Fabric It Feels Like Quilting Heaven
Plain buildings can fool you, and that is exactly what happened on a quick stop along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. From the parking lot, it looked like any small storefront you might drive past without a second thought. Inside, though, one room of fabric led to another, then another, until...
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Mobile Chamber to Honor Minority-owned Businesses at the 29th Annual Eagle Awards
The Mobile Chamber’s 29th Annual Eagle Awards and Eagle Business Forum will celebrate outstanding local minority-owned businesses and their contributions to the economy and community. This year’s honorees include B.E. Brown & Co. Mortuary, Easy Heating & Cooling and the Melton Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the University...
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We Were Priced Out of Retirement in Colorado—So We Moved to Alabama and Halved Our Mortgage
Thinking about moving to another state, but not sure how to start? Welcome to Crossing the Line, where real people spill about how they searched for properties in another state. Today, Tery and Tina Holt, a couple in their 60s, share about their plan to leave. Colorado and live somewhere...
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This Mississippi Farmers’ Market Rewards The Drive With Homemade Pecan Pies And Local Produce
Some of the best shopping trips on the Mississippi Gulf Coast happen twice a week, under a highway, before most people finish their morning coffee. Tables stacked with garlic, yams, spaghetti squash, and homemade pecan pies wait for anyone willing to show up early. Vendors here know their regulars by...
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New Biloxi business offers luxury cruises around the Coast
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) — The Biloxi Bay Area chamber of commerce celebrated a new small business officially taking to the water Thursday. Fawkes Party Boat held a ribbon cutting at the Point Cadet Marina, the boat’s dock. The luxury charter boat can take up to six passengers on...
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Brew Y’all Named Among New Tenants at Smyrna’s Sewarts Landing
Brew Y’all, a coffee concept based in Mobile, Alabama, has been named among six new tenants at Sewarts Landing, a $400 million mixed-use development at the intersection of Sam Ridley Parkway and Highway 41 in Smyrna, Tennessee. According to a report by Boropulse, developers Equitable Property Company and Chapman Capital announced the new tenants as the development welcomed its first businesses.
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Mobile Riverwalk Plaza developers go bigger: New proposal calls for 33-story building
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Developers of a proposed mixed-use destination project on the city’s downtown waterfront rolled out plans Wednesday representing a bolder vision than the one outlined in 2023. New renderings from Riverwalk Plaza now show a 33-story building next to the Arthur Outlaw Mobile Convention Center. At...
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$60 million defense expansion breaks ground in Pascagoula
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WLOX) — A $60 million expansion in the defense industry is underway on the Mississippi Coast. Officials from Jackson County, the Navy and Australia gathered in Pascagoula for a groundbreaking ceremony. Fairbanks-Morse held the groundbreaking Tuesday for its newest expansion to the Bird-Johnson Pascagoula Naval Propulsion facility.
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2026 Eagle Award Winner: B.E. Brown & Co. Mortuary
For Bobbie Brown, caring for families is a calling that spans more than five decades. At B.E. Brown & Co. Mortuary, that commitment connects generations of funeral service professionals through a shared purpose: serving families with dignity, compassion and personalized care. A 2026 Mobile Chamber Eagle Award recipient, the mortuary...
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Mobile Chamber Names Ellis G. Foster, Jr. Director of Government Affairs
MOBILE, Ala. – The Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce has named Ellis G. Foster, Jr. its new director of government affairs. Foster, who began Oct. 19, will help advance the Chamber’s advocacy agenda on behalf of its nearly 1,600 member businesses, coordinate the Chamber’s Governmental Affairs Committee and represent the Mobile business community in Montgomery during the legislative session.
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Eagle Awards Hall of Fame: Easy Heating and Cooling
For Enoch Smith, the next chapter of business growth starts on familiar ground: the very street where he grew up. The president of Easy Heating & Cooling is expanding into general contracting, building on more than two decades of service while investing in the neighborhood that helped shape him. That connection to customers and community is at the heart of the company’s recognition as the Mobile Chamber’s 2026 Eagle Awards Hall of Fame inductee.
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2026 Reverend Wesley A. James Minority Business Advocate: The Melton Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Turning an idea into a business takes more than ambition. It takes knowledge, guidance and opportunities to put both into practice. At the University of South Alabama, the Melton Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation brings those elements together, nurturing entrepreneurship on campus and throughout the Central Gulf Coast. Its work has earned the Center the Mobile Chamber’s 2026 Reverend Wesley A. James Minority Business Advocate Award.