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There continues to be a lot The building will be owned by of talk about innovation and the Chamber Foundation and 5 News You Can Use entrepreneurship here in open for clients sometime 9 Legislative Wrap-Up: Key Bills to Mobile and across the country. within the next two years, once Know About And we should be talking it undergoes extensive 11 Small Business of the Month: about it. Entrepreneurship renovations to update the Sam Winter & Co. Real Estate has been the driving force of space into a modern, state-of- American employment for the-art facility. 13 Made in Mobile: Prism Systems decades. Simply stated, helping The Chamber has hired 15 Guest Column: Wellth is the to keep our local economy Hayley Van Antwerp to serve New Wealth strong is tied directly to our as the PortAL’s executive 17 Balance Serves a Healthy Alternative willingness to promote the start of new director, and she has already begun work to Dining Out, Every Day business ventures. attracting private funding and applying for 19 1702 Kicks Off Second Year According to data from the U.S. Census federal grants to pay for purchasing of the 20 How to Nominate Outstanding Bureau net employment growth rate in this building and renovations of the facilities. Minority-Owned Businesses country would be negative without the Additionally, she will be recruiting clients jobs created by start-up businesses. to the PortAL. By design, the clients at the 22 Investor Focus: Southern Earth Sciences It is for that reason the Chamber and its PortAL will greatly benefit from the 24 CEO Profile: Tammy Little, Shell partners at the city, county and University availability of business, financial, legal Chemical LLP of South Alabama are working together to and human resources experts who will 25 Chamber@Work bring Innovation PortAL to downtown Mobile. volunteer their time on site. Because the 29 Ambassador of the Month: The PortAL will be located in a 35,000- PortAL companies share office space, the Peggy Folz square-foot building on St. Louis Street. start-ups can easily bounce ideas and 30 Chamber Hires Hayley Van Antwerp experiments off one another, which will to Guide New Project be invaluable. Fostering entrepreneurship and 30 Vicki Studstill Elected to Chamber “growing our own” is a sound economic Board of Directors development strategy. Entrepreneurs create 31 Board of Advisor Profiles job opportunities for not only themselves, 32 Calendar but for others. It will be gratifying for this 35 Member News community to see that occur at Innovation 38 Anniversaries PortAL, right in the heart of our metropolitan region. 39 New Members the business view is published monthly, except for the combined issue of December/January, by the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce 28 451 Government St., Mobile, AL 36602 251-433-6951 www.mobilechamber.com ©2016 Publisher William B. Sisson Executive Editor Leigh Perry-Herndon Managing Editor Jennifer Jenkins Copy Editor Michelle Irvin Additional Writers and Editors 12 Mike Herndon, Ashley Horn, Susan Rak-Blanchard and Carolyn Wilson Printing Services: Interstate Printing/Direct Mail Graphic Design: Wise Design Inc. 16 Advertising Account Executive: René Eiland 251-431-8635 [email protected] 4 the business view JUNE 2016 NEWS you can use Zoned In to Growth The new design for Water Street is expected to serve as an example of how new city zoning codes could inspire additional development. The City of Mobile’s completed more than 50 zoning get their input on current at North Water Street. community-driven, long-range and development codes in 26 barriers and how they can be Thompson Engineering is strategic plan, Map for Mobile, states, including those for removed to ensure the final working from a plan developed highlighted the need for a Montgomery, Austin and St. document is business-friendly. by MIG, a California-based zoning overhaul. Petersburg, Fla. Communities are returning planning and design company, Map for Mobile is the When complete, Mobile will to traditional design where to make Water Street the framework for the city’s have a single source document there are homes, grocery stores gateway to Mobile. It includes preservation, revitalization and that not only updates codes, but and coffee shops – all within a crosswalks, bicycle and growth aligned with economic also provides clarity and walkable distance. Over the pedestrian lanes, traffic and community development uniformity, streamlines years, there were such strict signalization, landscaping and activities. And to fulfill the processes and promotes zoning regulations, people had other elements. The work will objectives, the city’s zoning growth, said Shayla Beaco, no choice but to get in their cars. extend from Beauregard Street ordinances, subdivision senior director of city planning. “It’s time to eliminate the to the 1,500 block, south of regulations, streets and general “Once we have that, we have hurdles,” Beaco said. Government Street. land use plans, must be revised a tool for reinvestment that Two recent examples that When complete, citizens and or replaced to achieve growth. removes barriers of growth,” exemplify what the new visitors will be connected to the In April, the city contracted said Beaco. regulations could promote is Mobile riverfront and its with White & Smith as the During the 24-month process, the proposed transformation of amenities including Cooper leading expert to revise the the city will meet with architects, Water Street and Meridian at Riverside Park, the Mobile city’s 50-year-old plan. The engineers, homebuilders, The Port, a proposed new Convention Center, GulfQuest Missouri-based firm has developers and contractors to apartment complex, going up Maritime Museum and the Mobile Cruise Terminal. Rogers & Willard will serve as the local development consultant for Meridian at The Port developed by the Leaf River Group, based in Jackson, Miss. Construction is set to begin this summer on the $46.5 million apartment complex at 300 North Water St., where the old Delchamps grocery store headquarters once stood.