Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson, during a Q&A with aldotcom last week, named riverfront “activation” as among his top “legacy” projects, and one that he foresees coming together within the next two years.
“The highest probability, I believe, will be the airport in something that is started and completed ,” said Stimpson, whose third term ends in 2025, but who also hinted he might seek a fourth term.
The return of Amtrak to Mobile will result in a new train stop at the site of the former train station at 11 Government Street – the foot of Government and Water streets and adjacent to Cooper Riverside Park. Amtrak service is anticipated to return later this year with twice-daily trips between Mobile and New Orleans.
Hunter said the statues will be offer an eye-catching entrance into Cooper Riverside Park, hidden behind train tracks and sandwiched between GulfQuest and the Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center. He added, “In thinking about riverfront activation, we’ve been talking about that for the past three to five years now. It never included Amtrak. It was more about pedestrian foot traffic circulating around the Convention Center and Cooper Riverside Park and to GulfQuest. That’s why doing Heroes Park plaza as an entryway. With Amtrak, that will add a component that is not sandwiched in there yet. They will be on a short fuse to get stuff done. It could all come together in a short of time.
“We were talking about this idea before it went into Spanish Fort,” said Clark, acknowledging that his agency was in talks with a developer about a similar project at Cooper Riverside Park before the pandemic began. “If there was a place where it belongs, it is in Mobile, Alabama, where containerized shipping was founded.”
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