COME ON DOWN TO MOBILE AND BEFORE YOU TAKE THAT CRUISE OUT OF THE GREAT PORT CITY....YOU CAN ENJOY OUR FINE ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT AND MINGLE WITH SOME OF OUR LOCAL FOLK. ISN'T THIS THE PLACE YOU YOU HAVE ALWAYS DREAMED OF LIVING THE GOOD LIFE.I signed on to the old Facebook today to see what was happening in the world of social networking. I had a hot invitation in my mailbox to join one of the 7 million groups that exist in this cyberspace playground. Normally I just ignore most of these unless I am just bored tired of receiving the same invitation every day. SO I notice I had been sent one of these golden invites to join the "Make Some Noise" group for downtown Mobile. My first thought was.....is this some kind of new save the polar ice caps approach?
I managed to get about half way through the description tag when I started to shake my head. What is wrong with this community? Where are the people with an interest in progress? Why are college kids running this city?
This loosely formed group of rabid music fans are highly pissed off that some of the new residence in the LODA are upset with the late night party scene. Wow, imagine that! The late night party crowd has taken a territorial approach with the belief that they were there long before these new squatters invaded their little mecca of cheap beer and amateur music. So who is right in this epic battle for lower Dauphin?
Before you start calling me a big fat hypocrite, I will say that I had my fair share of fun as a young man under the watchful eye of the green Admiral Semmes statue. Those days are long gone and hopefully for those of you reading this post. So what is my take on this whole situation?
I am amazed every time I drive down Dauphin street at how slow the area is changing. It has been a decade now since we first heard of the "String of Pearls" that was going to turn downtown into an entertainment district similar to other cities our size. Other than some wider sidewalks, couple of trees, some bike stands, and Cathedral Park, what has actually changed. All this better walking area still leads to the same type of business.....the ratty bar! Lets be honest with ourselves. There are now a few art places and the theater has a face lift, but the majority of money spent is from drunk college kids shooting purple hooters. Is this really the long term plan the city is banking on for economic growth?
Most of the bars are just shitty looking! I know it and you know it. Hayles is a dump, the garage is a dump........you can just keep going down the list. If you are not embarrassed by the Heroes deck overlapping into the middle of a city street....you might need to stop reading now. Is this really the look we want people to see when they arrive in a major metropolitan city. You have to love the tourism potential of cheap paper signs, flyer's and stickers in the windows as you stroll down those neat new sidewalks. It must be some kind of Mobile "thang" that the uglier and nastier your bar looks, the more business you generate. Let me give you a clue to why the downtown crowd is not very diverse. People in their thirties and up have no interest in going to the LODA to hear broke down cover bands play music at volume 11. The people with good jobs and money to spend are looking for a night out that doesn't bring back memories of their frat days.
I went to an event at the Mitchel Center last night (I will blog about later). This was a show with huge international appeal. It was the kind of night that you actually put some church clothes on and act like an adult. I was shocked at the number of faded Polo's, t-shirts, flip flops, blue jeans, baseball caps, and tennis shoes. I just can't help but think that Mobile is becoming exactly what downtown has been all these years.......ugly. This city is set on being nothing more than casual. You see it in every restaurant. You see it in stores. This sense of ugly and poor looking is the best we can do. I am tired of going to other cities and actually seeing people who look like they have some direction in the lifestyle they want to live. It is OK to tuck a shirt in and go to bar that is actually clean. I am getting way off subject here, but this whole concept of "lower class" is something that keeps downtown Mobile under the foot of the college moron. I just wish half of Mobile would go to a city where people actually go downtown for something other than a Bud Lite and a Cowboy Junkies cover band.
Until we realize that the people making a commitment to living, shopping, dinning a and spending in downtown Mobile are more important than the nightly cover charge, the city will never progress. The opportunity to be an upscale attraction and a city with a high standard of living is right in front of our eyes. Is this the downtown that evokes the phrase..."I want to live in Mobile". Is this the city that is going to wow all those new corporations? We always hear people bitching about more culture...more art in downtown. That will never come because it will always play second fiddle to the beer stained stages and popped collars that is Mobile Entertainment. Lets get some new blood and build a city that brings in real money and real opportunity. Don't let me down Eastern Shore. If you build it, we will come! Any body got a key to the bulldozer?
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Fantastic post today, excellent writing as well.
I especially agreed with this
"This city is set on being nothing more than casual. You see it in every restaurant. You see it in stores. This sense of ugly and poor looking is the best we can do. I am tired of going to other cities and actually seeing people who look like they have some direction in the lifestyle they want to live."
If you are going to rent an apartment downtown, at least check it out on a Friday or Saturday night to see how loud the surrounding clubs are in the neighborhood. If you live in a business or entertainment district, you should realize it may not be conducive to getting a good night's sleep.
Also, I know it's a terrible thing to think of, but I keep waiting to read the headline about some out of control Ford F-250 plowing into that Heroes deck. Probably driven by a Bubba, Trey, or Jimmy Joe Bob.
It is hard to get everything in one post. My big issue is not really about the guy who lives next to the night club (although he has lived there before there was even a bar on his block....30+ years). The whole idea is what you want downtown to be. A thriving downtown is not a dozen bars and 5 dozen empty buildings. A thriving downtown is not an area that is only generating an economic impact after 9 pm. For downtown to survive and for these bar owners (and future store owners) to survive they need residents. They need traffic throughout the day. I just don't think they see the big picture. Can we get a little creative and open something other than a college bar.
i know its not popular, but I am in favor getting rid of a third of the buildings downtown and building something other than a mildew trap. Some buildings are historical but many are nothing but old buildings. We will slowly become the next New Orleans.......The city that people from nice places come to trash, puke on, act a fool and then go home to their nice downtown. Lets not become a stepping stone.
I think the Crescent movie theater is a good start. A grocery store would be nice. They have a dozen Wal-Marts in Mobile and Baldwin county, but none are located downtown or near downtown. Hopefully, they build affordable downtown housing. The new lofts/condos are very expensive and the cost/sq ft ratio is much lower then a house in west Mobile. The housing that is being offered west of Broad St. and North of Government is geared toward wealthy young professionals (probably white). Right now, Mobile is stuck trying to decide if its downtown is New Orleans or Savannah. Currently, it's somewhere in between and I don't think the mix works. They either add strippers or add more culture.
Downtown needs to add more culture. Savannah is far better than NOLA ever wanted to be, and it too is a port city - all while keeping their old buildings and historic landmarks.
As for adding strippers, I worked an event not long ago at the Saenger and when I came out, the girls walking up and down the sidewalk were practically naked with skirts showing their crotches with nothing covering them. Why have strip clubs when you can get all the cat watching for free? just my .02
Downtown Mobile is a mierda hole and has been since I moved here in '92. My out of town guests all ask to go downtown and then are disgusted and dissapointed in it. It's just gross.
Thank you, that was extremely valuable and interesting...I will be back again to read more on this topic.
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