10 Cities for Real Estate Steals-US News and World Report

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Have a look at what we are building.  Now in Hamilton Bridges, Spring Grove and Summerglen the new homes will be built to include many more custom features. CHECK IT OUT!!! <img src="/assets/0000/2261/THE_NEW_COTTAGETRADITIONAL_020510__2_.jpg?1267567555" alt="" width="645" height="1521" />       2010-03-02T22:00:49+00:00 27

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OUR UPGRADES ARE STANDARD!

2010-03-03T16:32:24+00:00

It's always nice to hear what the European press is saying.... A city that looks beyond the recession IN JUNE a delegation of officials from Alabama packed their bags for the Paris Air Show. Along with officials from Mississippi and Florida they held a reception in the Eiffel Tower and enjoyed a cruise on the Seine. They appeared to be having a very good time, reported someone from Washington state, which is nervously eyeing Alabama's growing aerospace industry. How, in these bad times, can Alabama or Mobile, its most charming city, be so jolly? In June the state's unemployment rate hit 10.1%, more than double what it was a year ago. And things will get worse before they get better: a new survey from the University of Alabama says that business leaders expect the state's economy to go on shrinking in the third quarter. Nevertheless, people in Alabama, particularly in the south-west corner that includes Mobile, are refusing to be daunted. And their confidence is not misplaced. In recent years both city and state have been on a blitz of economic development. Most Alabamans trace the change back to 1993, when the state managed to land a Mercedes plant. This was a $300m investment that gave Alabama a big credibility boost. Honda and Hyundai plants followed and the state now has over 300 car-related companies. In 2006 Alabama won a Golden Shovel award from Area Development magazine, and this June it got a silver.  <img style="FLOAT: left; float: left" src="/assets/0000/2191/CUS922_normal.gif?1249567913" alt="" /> Mobile has had its own successes. Austal, an Australian  shipbuilder, came to the city in 1999 and has been expanding. The port recently opened a new container terminal. ThyssenKrupp is building a large steel plant that will bring 2,700 jobs to the region next year. Boeing, Alabama's aerospace giant, is based in Huntsville but is spreading to the south of the state. At the same time the city is smartening up. Ten years ago, says Win Hallett, the head of its Chamber of Commerce, the centre of Mobile was so ragged that he worried about visitors being frightened away by the hotels. In 2001 the schools superintendent gave out a dire warning: unless voters approved a property tax rise, he would have to cut the football programmes. The rise went ahead. All this has given Mobilians their sunny outlook, despite the current economic woe. Last year Moody's Economy.com ranked Mobile County first among America's 363 metropolitan areas for projected economic growth between 2007 and 2012. In June Forbes included Mobile (and Huntsville) in its list of the ten cities best placed for recovery. Mobile and Havana became sister cities in 1993 and, so far as they can, have kept up their ties ever since. There is a long relationship between southern Alabama and Cuba which, several hundred years ago, were trawled by the same cast of French and Spanish explorers. In the 19th century Mobilian doctors helped their Cuban peers fight yellow fever by destroying mosquitoes and a Cuban student who studied in Mobile returned home with a baseball and bat. City leaders are looking to benefit should there now at last be a change in America's policy towards Cuba. <a title="blocked::http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14140365" href="http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14140365" target="_blank">http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14140365</a>   2009-08-06T14:11:04+00:00 21

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The ECONOMIST on Mobile....

2009-08-17T20:20:07+00:00

Phase 4 of Hamilton Bridges is finally here!!!!!  This is the last phase of this beautiful cottage community.  One of the only developments in Mobile with NEW HOMES in the 120's.  That means low payments and affordable ownership.  Don't wait to reserve your new home in this wonderful WEST MOBILE neighborhood. 2008-06-26T13:37:54+00:00 18

2008-06-26T00:00:00+00:00

West Mobile Homes in the 120's

2008-06-26T13:39:44+00:00

In a continuing effort to provide the best communities in the best areas, we proudly announce the addition of Tanager in Spanish Fort.  This wooded development is surronded by nature while conveniently located close to the interstate and central to shopping, golf and the beach.  This one of a kind development is located on Jimmy Faulkner Drive, formerly HWY 181, between the new Spanish Fort High School and the newly constructed Spanish Fort Middle School.  It is in the Rockwell Elementary school district and is in the city limits of popular Spanish Fort. Tanager is a smaller Estate community with large lots nestled in a woodland setting.  Sibley Creek a free flowing waterway runs along the communities common area and along the back of some of the preimum lots.  Don't wait to find your perfect homesite.  Call 251-344-2600 to schedule an appointment for a showing. 2008-02-12T15:28:11+00:00 14

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SPANISH FORT IN THE LOW $200'S

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