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[email protected] • OCT. 24-NOV. 7, 2018 • 251-968-5683 • 850-492-5221 Over 200 Grammy Award winning and up and coming songwriters perform original songs in multiple loca- tions across the island during this renowned festival. Attendees enjoy an up-close-and-personal concert experience and often learn the stories behind the songs. Most venues are free to attend; a few charge a modest cover at the door. Photo by Shelley Patterson - CShelzPhotos.com Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival • Nov. 8-18 frankbrownsongwriters.com Page 2 • The Mullet Wrapper • Oct. 24-Nov. 7, 2018 • Ad. Info: 251-968-5683 or 850-492-5221 • SHARE YOUR COMMUNITY NEWS• E-Mail: [email protected] Ad. Info: 251-968-5683 OR 850-492-5221 • SHARE YOUR COMMUNITY NEWS • Email: [email protected] • Oct. 24-Nov. 7, 2018 • Page 3 Page 4 • The Mullet Wrapper • Oct. 24-Nov. 7, 2018 • Ad. Info: 251-968-5683 or 850-492-5221 • SHARE YOUR COMMUNITY NEWS• E-Mail: [email protected] Ad. Info: 251-968-5683 OR 850-492-5221 • SHARE YOUR COMMUNITY NEWS • Email: [email protected] • Oct. 24-Nov. 7, 2018 • Page5 Page 6 • The Mullet Wrapper • Oct. 24-Nov. 7, 2018 • Ad. Info: 251-968-5683 or 850-492-5221 • SHARE YOUR COMMUNITY NEWS• E-Mail: [email protected] GULF SHORES CITY COUNCIL of Commerce Drive. Resicum International, an aerospace maintenance, re- City will widen Coastal Gateway Blvd. (County Rd. 8) pair and overhaul company, is relocating its headquar- ters from Pensacola to a new 21,000-square-foot By John Mullen a traffic signal and is seeking support from the City of building on the extended portion. This grant will pay Gulf Shores is making plans to move forward with a Foley, Baldwin County and the Baldwin County Bridge for roadway and drainage constructions costs as well as widening of the former County Road 8, taken over and Company. construction, engineering and inspection but does ex- renamed by the city as Coastal Gateway Boulevard. “We have to get three groups to support because it is clude design and utility expenses. The council also ap- It was just one of several ambitious projects city offi- part of the beach express connection,” Acreman said. proved $70,000 to Barge Design solutions to complete cials said they will be working on soon including the “We’ve had a positive response from all three entities.” the necessary survey, geotechnical and design services final phase of the Gulf Place Project on city Gulf front Included in this project is a quarter mile spur to the for this project. between the Phoenix All-Suites Hotel on the west and south about halfway between State Route 59 and the Economic Development Coordinator Blake Phelps said Regatta condos on the East. Another project will extend beach express. It will be a two-lane road with sidewalks Barge will also complete the design for the entire loop Commercial Drive in the Business and Aviation Park and bike paths and the city hopes to extend it all the of Commerce Drive near the state’s Mariculture Cen- near the airport to service a new building to be built by way to Oak Road East or County Road 6. ter. Resicum Iternational, an aerospace company. “Initially we are only focusing in on this first 40 acres “We are not proposing at this time to fund that at this “We’ve been working on a but our goal is to continue that road in the near future time but while we had crews out there it made a lot of project to widen Coastal all the way to Oak Road East and have another oppor- sense to complete the design on the loop,” Phelps said. “This will be our Gateway (pictured below) to tunity for people to use a two-lane highway and avoid “It’s basically $18,000 more to get them to complete de- a four-lane road with a di- having to cut through a residential neighborhood,” sign of that loop.” direct access to vided median, closed GULF PLACE PROJECT IN OTHER BUSINESS: Gulf Shores with drainage system, curb and This lot is undeveloped Gulf front the city will improve • The council continued the alcohol ban on the beach gutter, bike lanes, side- with amenities similar to the new Gulf Place in the area during spring break for the fourth year. Dates for the signage for people walks,” Public Works Direc- of the Hangout. ban are March 2 through April 28. The first ban came coming from the tor Mark Acreman said. “This is a significant change in our world,” Mayor midway through the 2016 spring break season when The city is looking to pay Robert Craft said. “The good news about this is we’ve unruly crowds gathered daily on the beach in Gulf Foley Beach Ex- Hosea Weaver and Sons out been focused for a long time on our middle third of our Shores. The ban was enacted in a specially called meet- press trying to get of Mobile about $9.2 million half mile. We have now spread this out to where the full ing and has been reinstated each year since. for the refurbished road. half mile of property that we own is available to the • The council agreed to OK a lease agreement with Gulf to Gulf Shores. This does not include an- public with access points, fire substation, public safety Shores Power Sports on a half-acre at Jack Edwards That’s the reason other $3.5 million for in- building and police substation. We’ll have folks housed National Airport. Owners Morgan and Blakely Kitchens spections and testing on the there to help us manage it and react if anything hap- want to build an 8,100 square foot hangar and lease it for the size and new roadway. pens.” for 40 years. Monthly rental would be about $5,400 and design of the road. Mayor Robert Craft said it Other amenities will include more parking, a restroom go up yearly based on the consumer price Index or by 3 will provide an alternative building, improved pedestrian access points, shade percent. The hangar will be used for the storage, main- Not only for the route for those traveling to structures, a 20-foot wide boardwalk and an improved tenance and repair of aircraft owned by the Kitchens. residential growth Gulf Shores. There are also walkover. • The council agreed to a memorandum of understand- already several subdivisions The city added a public safety building at the west end ing with Baldwin County for a school resource officer at but also for using along the road and more are of Gulf Place in phase one of the project and will add a the elementary, middle and high schools in Gulf Shores. that as an entry to being planned. police substation at the east end with this final phase. The Baldwin County Board of Education will provide “This will be our direct ac- “We’ll have folks housed there to help us manage it $50,000 for each officer to help offset the cost. Gulf Shores from cess to Gulf Shores with sig- and react if anything happens,” Craft said. • The council agreed to pay Skipper Consulting $93,000 the beach ex- nage for people coming from Cunningham Delaney had the lowest conforming bid to develop a Master Street Plan that will prioritize up- the Foley Beach Express at just more than $2.5 million and is scheduled to start coming transportation improvements and develop ad- press.” trying to get to Gulf Shores,” work on Oct. 29. Environmental/Grants Coordinator ditional strategies to address future traffic growth. Craft said. “That’s the rea- Dan Bond said. Work is expected to completed by April • The council agreed to reappoint Morgan Szapiel, Bob- son for the size and design 30. bie Rooker, Susan Brush to the Library Advisory Board of the road. Not only for the residential growth but also EXTENDING COMMERCE DR. and Councilman Jason Dyken to the Library Board. for using that as an entry to Gulf Shores from the beach The council authorized the mayor to sign a grant from • The council OK’d a special event liquor license for the express.” the Alabama Department of Transportation industrial Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Fly-In on Oct. It will take about 18 months to finish the project, Acre- access grant worth almost $360,000 for the extension 26-27 at Jack Edwards National Airport. man said, and it will start with moving utilities and im- proving them in the process. “The good news is because of the rapid growth that we are seeing on Coastal Gateway Boulevard a lot of these utilities will be upgraded during this process,” Acreman said. “Baldwin EMC is going to upgrade their capacity because of the demands that are being placed, not only now but in the near future as some of these properties develop as well as Gulf Shores Utilities water and sewer capacities in these areas.” At either end of the new roadway both the intersection at State Route 59 and the Foley Beach Express will be upgraded as well. “When we are completed we will have improved both the intersections at Highway 59 and the Foley Beach Express,” Acreman said. “At Highway 59 we are adding a northbound right turn lane, we’re adding a north- bound right turn lane to the west off of Highway 59 and we’ll have dual left turns going south.” On the Foley Beach Express, the city is looking to have Ad.