One of Alabama Gulf Coast's busiest airports might soon be going commercial. Currently Jack Edwards Airport serves only private flights, but if the recommendations of an engineering study are approved the airport could be accepting commercial jet traffic within 5 years.
The airport currently has about 80,000 takeoffs and landings each year. Airport officials expect that number could double, and have proposed a plan to grow the airport in response to the increased demand by Gulf Shores vacation goers, conventioneers and other visitors.
Gulf Shores considers commercial jetliners
Southern Alabama is playing a starring role in television, music video and even in independent film documentaries lately. Recently the Antiques Roadshow people were in town to film a segment for their upcoming season
Today we learn that Southern Alabama will play backdrop to a number of country music videos. It seems the local film offices and communities are friendly and accommodating to production companies who need just the right scenes to serve as the settings for their art.
Get ready for it. Whether you're just visiting Alabama's Gulf Coast, vacationing in a Gulf Shores condo for a week or looking to invest in a vacation rental property on the Gulf Coast, you'll be paying more - a lot more - for insurance.
Fewer and fewer companies remain in the market to sell Gulf Coast vacation property owners insurance for their condos or vacation homes. Those that do remain are charging much more to insure against storm damage.
With the prices of Gulf Shores real estate escalating as they are and the ever increasing demand from Alabama Gulf Coast vacationers the daily, weekly and monthly prices for vacation rentals is about to rise significantly.
Seafood and southern cooking is at its best along Alabama's Gulf Coast. The unfortunately reality is the really good places are just not big enough to handle the summer crush of vacationers and visitors looking for one of those tasty meals.
Gulf Shores and neighboring Orange Beach visitors and vacationers are finding long wait times for restaurant seating this summer. Be prepared. Either rearrange your dining schedule for an early or a later meal. If you show up during prime time you may end up having a later meal anyway.
Life long Gulf Shores resident and entrepreneur Clyde Weir and his daughter Andrea Weir Franklin, owners of the Souvenir City shops in Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, have just donated a large tract of land to the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo. The donation will allow the Zoo and park to relocate to an area less likely to be affected by inclement weather such as that which forced the zoo's evacuation last year.
The property is 25 acres in northern Gulf Shores. It will be a welcome change from the low-lying plot near the Gulf of Mexico where the zoo had been located.
Gulf Shores has certainly been good to us and in return we want to do something for the community.
Nearby Gulf Shores - The Mobile area will play host to a production crew this week as they visit attractions around Mobile and Dauphin Island. These field trips will be be included in an episode of the Antiques Roadshow to be recorded at the Mobile convention center this weekend.
Approximately 5,000 to 6,000 people are expected to attend the main attraction appraisal event, which will take place at the Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center from 8am to 6pm this Saturday.
The scheduled field trips include the Mobile Medical Museum where filming took place yesterday, and the Audubon Bird Sanctuary on Dauphin Island.