Mobile Bay Area: Random Thoughts (Prichard, Daphne: for sale, apartment, homes)

[Surge0001]

Originally Posted by RocketDawg

Correct me if I'm wrong - but George and Jackson Counties used to be in the Gulport/Biloxi CSA, but now there is no CSA - Jackson County joined the Gulfport/Biloxi MSA.

I suppose it's possible that George County could join the Mobile MSA. My sister lives in rural George County and they always go to Mobile when they need anything - health care, shopping, etc., but they work in George County. Don't know if George County will meet the 25% commuter requirement to Mobile or not.

Are you aware of the proposal for an MSA to have a central city (or perhaps urban area) of 100,000 or greater, rather than the current 50,000? A lot of the current MSAs will turn into Micros if that proposal passes (and it probably should - it's an old definition established when the US was half the size it is now).

Yea, commuters had increased from 800 to 1200 from 2010-2015 going to Mobile from George County, doesn't seem like a lot but George County is pretty rural.
https://www.census.gov/topics/employ...nce/flows.html


Yea I agree there's too many metros, need to reduce them.

[MardiGras251]

Originally Posted by Surge0001

In the recent metro change Jackson/George County metro was dropped and Jackson joined the Biloxi metro and now George County is now no longer part of metro which gives me the impression that they are shifting to Mobile, once 198 is complete, I believe that will be the tipping point and reach that 25% commuting patterns since then you could get to downtown in just 40 minutes and reach schillinger's corridor in about 30 minutes and then with the creation of the Snow Rd/Macfarland expanded corridor from I-10 to new 198 in the next 3 years. It will likely create another commercial corridor even further west closer to Lucedale with just a 20 minute commute.


https://censusreporter.org/profiles/...al-metro-area/

Lol dude now that I’m thinking about it that’s like my third time on here saying they had been dropped lol I remember me and port city had this exact same exchange. I think I’m just subconsciously waiting on them to drop bc all the ms tags in wemo

[MardiGras251]

Random fact: st. Joseph medical center in Tacoma, Washington and ascension providence hospital is the exact same building. If not they’re eerily similar.

[southernnaturelover]

Originally Posted by Surge0001

Also I'm curious how corporation's will treat Mobile once we integrate Baldwin County into the metro. The metro grows from 430k to 655k. (a 50% increase) Not only that but metro would be considered a rapidly growing metro because Baldwin County is gaining 5-6k every year.

I don't think they will care one way or the other. They can do research and find out how many people live in the area whether Baldwin is "integrated" into the Mobile metro or not.

[southernnaturelover]

Originally Posted by MardiGras251

Random fact: st. Joseph medical center in Tacoma, Washington and ascension providence hospital is the exact same building. If not they’re eerily similar.

Interesting. Looking at them from the air however, Providence has one wing that is oval, and the other three are scalloped, while all four of the Tacoma hospital are scalloped.

[PortCity]

Originally Posted by MardiGras251

Random fact: st. Joseph medical center in Tacoma, Washington and ascension providence hospital is the exact same building. If not they’re eerily similar.

Yes I think they were both designed by the same architect from Chicago.

[southernnaturelover]

Originally Posted by PortCity

Yes I think they were both designed by the same architect from Chicago.

Several of my paramedic friends have always referred to Providence as "Flintstone Manor".

[PortCity]

Originally Posted by southernnaturelover

Several of my paramedic friends have always referred to Providence as "Flintstone Manor".

LOL what ?!

[PortCity]

Originally Posted by MardiGras251

Random fact: st. Joseph medical center in Tacoma, Washington and ascension providence hospital is the exact same building. If not they’re eerily similar.

Bertrand Goldberg was the architect.Most of his designs have that cylindrical signature. I was told that the city was going to have him to design a building downtown in the late 80's/ early 90's.

[Surge0001]

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/...QhzBeM11HpwuHU


I think the biggest potential is Duplex and Triplex. You can greatly increase the population density if cities implement Duplexes/Triplexes. Cities like Chickasaw and Satsuma need to look into changing their ordinances to allow the plexes in their R-1 zoning. As land locked cities, there's literally no where for the cities to expand. If the city wants to grow they will need to start introducing these plexes and even encourage them for new builds, not only that it will allow for a higher tax base as the land value will increase with the higher population density. Other cities that would greatly benefit from changing such ordinances are Mobile and Prichard. Prichard has a lot of land for development and would benefit greatly from the ordinance. Inner City Mobile would also benefit from it, not enough people live in the inner city within proximity of downtown due to limited land available for growth