News & Events

On Tuesday, May 24th, the Coastal Civic Masters class toured Bayou La Batre, seafood capital of Alabama. Starting the tour at Olympic Shellfish Processors, the class donned hair nets and learned about picking crabs. The next stop of the tour was to Graham Shrimp and a tour by Ernie Anderson. Our last stop of the tour […]

On December 4th, 2015, the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act became law, authorizing $305 billion over the next five years to the U.S Department of Transportation’s rail, highway, public transportation, safety, research and technology projects and programs. Among the FAST Act’s policy provisions, the Federal Rail Administration (FRA) was provided $500,000 to convene a working

One of the biggest questions surrounding the I-10 Bridge and Bayway Widening project is how are we going to pay for it? With the preliminary design phase underway, the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) has begun attempting to answer this question by looking into potential funding options for the project.   First, ALDOT is planning

On March 8th, 2016, over forty five elected, business and community leaders from Coastal Alabama traveled to Montgomery, Alabama for meetings with our state officials and a legislative reception. Coordinated by Coastal Alabama Partnership (CAP), it was the second time leadership from Mobile and Baldwin counties have traveled together to represent the region as a

Coastal Alabama Partnership recently welcomed the inaugural class members to the Coastal Civic Masters Program(CCM). The program is designed to build a regional leadership coalition to promote the needs of Coastal Alabama, to provide leadership development for area leaders and to build community awareness for leaders of Coastal Alabama issues. CCM is the first regional leadership