“We’re trying to bring people together, not isolate them” says Anna Lowder.
Some of you inquired about it, so we checked it out. The whole idea behind the Hampstead community off Taylor Road is to step back in time, and in essence, make living a little easier for residents.
“It’s being built around the concept of traditional [...]
The Colonial Company – New Projects
Friday, February 1st, 2008Mobis Plant Adds Distribution Center
Friday, February 13th, 2004By Tiffany Ray
Montgomery Advertiser
Mobis Alabama, a tier one Hyundai supplier, not only will take over the plastic injection molding business left behind by Venture Industries, but will add a third prong to its Montgomery operations: a distribution center for service parts.
The announcement, made Thursday by company and officials at the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce, [...]
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City RSA Ink Four Star Hotel Deal
Wednesday, January 28th, 2004Local News – January 28, 2004 Montgomery, Alabama
City, RSA ink 4-star hotel deal
By William F. West
Montgomery Advertiser
With the stroke of a pen, the city of Montgomery and the Retirement Systems of Alabama made the first moves toward transforming an aging Civic Center into a convention center, four-star hotel and fine arts theater.
Mayor Bobby Bright on [...]
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CCIM Capital Hill Visit
Monday, December 22nd, 2003Capitol Hill Visits
CCIMs and CPMs at the Library of Congress.
Photo courtesy of Photographics of Washington, D.C.
OVERVIEW
On April 29, 2003, 80 CCIMs and 220 CPM©s participated in the 2003 IREM/CCIM Capitol Hill Visits. These CCIMs, CPM©s and ARM©s attended 160 meetings scheduled with Congressional offices in order to educate legislators about commercial real estate investment and [...]
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EastChase Adds Three New Stores
Thursday, December 18th, 2003EastChase adds 3 stores
By Mike Sherman
Montgomery Advertiser
Construction continues Wednesday at the new shopping center in EastChase that will contain PETsMART, Ross Dress for Less and Cost Plus World Market.
– Photos by Julie BennettAdvertiser
An import market with furniture, foods and wines, a name-brand and designer apparel store, and a superstore for pets are under construction at [...]
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Bruno’s to Open East Location
Friday, October 3rd, 2003By Mike Sherman
Montgomery Advertiser
A new Bruno’s under construction off Mt. Meigs Road will have a drive-through pharmacy.
– Karen S. Doerr, Advertiser
The developer of the new Chantilly Corners shopping center expects its new Bruno’s anchor store to open next month.
The center is on the southwest corner of the intersection of Chantilly Parkway and EastChase Parkway, east [...]
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City gets Orlando baseball team
Monday, August 25th, 2003The Class AA minor league baseball team from Orlando will make its Montgomery debut in April 2004, the team owners announced Tuesday.
Calling it “the worst kept secret in the history of professional league baseball,” Tom Dickson, co-owner of Professional Sports Marketing LLC, said his company has a binding purchase agreement to buy the Orlando Rays, [...]
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Hyundai supplier starts venture
Monday, August 25th, 2003VENTURE ALABAMA
Headquarters: Fraser, Mich.
Size: 60 plant locations in 13 countries
Annual sales: $2.5 billion
Employees: 13,000 worldwide
Prattville details: 670,000-square-foot plant will employ about 600 people. Expected to begin operations in September 2004
PRATTVILLE — Venture Alabama held its groundbreaking ceremony in Prattville Tuesday afternoon, the first step in construction of a 670,000-square-foot, $100 million automotive parts plant.
The project [...]
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Montgomery on the Move
Tuesday, August 5th, 2003Montgomery on the Move
One of the Deep South’s most embattled cities now offers opportunity and diversity.
by Nicole Gull
Setting SitesIsaiah Sankey was born December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala. — the same day fellow African American Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving her seat to a white person on a city bus. “They call me [...]
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Merchants, police see more cars downtown
Tuesday, July 8th, 2003Is it the imagination or has the traffic volume in Montgomery’s downtown increased in the past couple of years?
While exact numerical comparisons of downtown traffic growth or decline do not exist, longtime business owners, managers, police and the city’s certified planners say traffic in the central business district seems to have picked up in the [...]