Apartment Look

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) –   Development partners Leaf River Group and Bristol Development Group , as well as Mobile City officials , broke ground on Meridian at the Port, a large upscale apartment complex on Water Street. The more than $51 million project will feature 267 luxury apartments , a saltwater pool, a dog park, roof top lounge , and more. The complex is expected to be completed by 2019. Rent is estimated to be between $1000-1200. Tuesday morning, the development sent new artist renderings of the complex and they can be seen below in the slideshow. This residential development is part of an ongoing effort to revitalize the downtown area. City officials hope development like Meridian at the Port will make Water Street more pedestrian-friendly. “We’ve got to find ways to get people from across the street here at the various hotels and some level of interaction with our waterfront. This project accomplishes that vision to some degree,” says District 2 Councilman Levon C. Manzie...

OLD TIMER The Stewart apartments occupy the top two floors of this 1921 building at the corner of Southwest Broadway and Ankeny. Patrick Alexander IN JUNE , the rumors began wafting through the Stewart Apartments like the cigarette smoke that often clouds its halls. The 55-unit building’s long-time manager had passed away on May 28. If no one stepped in to replace him, 66 residents would soon be looking for a place to live—with little hope of finding a suitable spot. The first rumblings of a looming mass eviction came not long after apartment manager Mike Narver ’s death. But by August 11—20 days before Narver’s lease to run the building was set to expire—no one was any clearer on their future. “It’s so back and forth,” said Eddie Grant, a 62-year old resident who clerks the Stewart’s front desk, as he emptied a garbage bin in the building’s lobby last week. “Now I heard we might be out at by the end of the month, or next week.” Marge Appling , a 20-year resident and the building’s...