They really do not need or require the city's approval because that is a church. It doesn't need any zoning approval like the other locations. We are thinking of other places, but I don't think they are viable. Chang and Dan Williams, the coalition's executive director, refused to discuss more details until after today's board meeting at the St. Francis Street Center. There, for the past five years, up to 100 homeless or poor people have come each weekday for a free lunch served by volunteers with the Loaves and Fishes program.
Breakfast is served on weekends.
Usually the others will take care of that. Downtown business people learned about the coalition's plans to move into the church's Sunday school annex at a Wednesday meeting with Williams and Elizabeth Sanders of the city's Main Street Mobile program. I'm outraged about it. I'm going to raise all the hell I can raise, which will probably come to no avail. Like other merchants interviewed by the Mobile Register, Norwood wanted the center located on St. Emmanuel Street near Mobile County Metro Jail and the city's industrialized waterfront.