Karlos Finley, of Africatown Redevelopment Corp.: “We’re really excited that organizations are galvanizing, congealing and focused in a specific area on revitalizing this community. And when I say revitalizing, I mean a complete and total revitalization.”
The Africatown Welcome Center is pictured on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, in Mobile, Ala. At the time, the welcome center was housed in a mobile home across from the Old Plateau Cemetery. The new center will be located in the same spot, but it will be much larger and serve as a tourist attraction. That project is being funded by RESTORE Act money.
Yesterday, the Mobile City Council authorized a nearly $400,000 contract with Mott MacDonald, a local architecture firm, for the design of the Africatown Welcome Center. And, at its monthly meeting yesterday, the Africatown Redevelopment Corporation Board of Directors announced progress on their office building and on the housing projects they started in the new year.
These are all welcome signs of progress to the residents of Africatown, an impoverished area of the city: As of 2015, one in three households in Africatown and adjacent neighborhoods have incomes below the poverty level, according to the city of Mobile. Following discovery of the Clotilda four years ago, which generated national interest in the area, residents hoped that these projects would capitalize on that momentum and help revitalize the area. But there have been delays.
“We’re really excited that organizations are galvanizing, congealing and focused in a specific area on revitalizing this community,” Karlos Finley, the new executive director for the ARC, said after their monthly meeting Tuesday. “And when I say revitalizing, I mean a complete and total revitalization.”
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