Along the waterfront north of downtown are shipbuilders and a rail yard. Cranes interrupt the skyline, loading lumber and coal onto ships in the bay. Caller-Times Mobile is a heavy industry city whose port is one of its biggest assets. The port ranks among the 10 busiest in the nation. Along the waterfront north of downtown are shipbuilders and a rail yard.
Cranes interrupt the skyline, loading lumber and coal onto ships.
Mobile has seen that heavy industrial base shrink as industries found land on the city's outskirts more appealing. As the warehouses and factories downtown closed, so did the businesses surrounding them. He bought an antebellum house and remodeled the interior to house the offices. People wanted new and bright and shiny rather than historic. Residents moved out of the city, heading east across Mobile Bay into neighboring Baldwin County for more upscale suburbs such as Daphne, Fairhope and Gulf Shores.