08/24/2026
SHOULD THE CITY HAVE A MARINA?
⚓ Mobile is considering a $48,900 feasibility study to determine whether a public marina or additional public docking facilities are feasible in the city — and where they might go.
🏗️ The Mobile City Council will consider Tuesday spending $48,900 with Covington Civil & Environmental to conduct the study, which would examine multiple possible sites, including city-owned property and other locations that could be suitable for a marina or public docks.
The study would look at demand from boaters, shoreline conditions, dredging needs, access, parking, utilities and other infrastructure.
It would also examine what type of facility could be developed, what it might cost and how it could be operated. That could include city operation or use of a third-party operator.
The study would rank potential locations, develop preliminary concepts and costs for the most promising sites and recommend a path forward. No preferred location has been identified.
🚧 Phase III of the Broad Street redevelopment project could also receive $1.6 million in FY2027 Rebuild Alabama funding.
This phase runs from the Canal Street traffic circle to Garrity Street and includes reconstruction of the roadbed, curbs and gutters, drainage inlets, landscaping, sidewalks and bicycle infrastructure.
The transportation plan accompanying the proposal lists the 1.19-mile South Broad Street project at an estimated total cost of $16 million.
💻 A held-over three-year agreement with Tyler Technologies would cost the city $7.418 million.
The agreement largely continues software Mobile already uses for finances, revenue, business licenses, human resources, payroll, Build Mobile permitting and zoning, municipal enforcement and other city operations.
Mobile has used Tyler’s primary financial and permitting systems since 2014. The new agreement would also upgrade the Mobile Police Department’s records-management system to handle increasing demands for data processing, reporting and case management.
🏛️ Plans for the museum inside the Africatown Welcome Center could also move forward.
The city proposes a $240,954.15 contract with Watermark Design Group for the first step in developing and coordinating the museum exhibits. The work includes developing exhibit content, organizing information, preparing layouts and making technical recommendations.
Among the ideas for future exhibits are a historical timeline with audiovisual content, holograms, wayfinding and artifact displays and an immersive theater. Those are concepts for later phases, not features being built under this contract.
The first planning phase is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, although that schedule depends partly on community contributions such as photographs, interviews, movies and artifacts.
A separate $90,000 agreement with Lyvve Investment Group, which was held over from an earlier meeting, covers community liaison work associated with the Welcome Center, youth jobs programming and partnership planning.
🚗 North McGregor Avenue reconstruction is also moving forward through two separate council actions.
One would move $250,000 from the city’s unassigned General Fund balance into the North McGregor Reconstruction project for continued work between the roundabout and Springhill Avenue.
A separate item would award McElhenney Construction Co. a $1,419,344.43 construction contract for the North McGregor project.
