Cranes are in place, steel is rising, and a bridge is slowly taking shape over the Tensaw River.
But it’s not that bridge.
A $78.8 million project visible just east of the USS Alabama Battleship is a replacement span along the U.S. 90 Causeway, set to be completed by January 2027. Meanwhile, the long-promised, $3.5 billion I-10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway looms in the background — still in planning, and still without a firm construction start…