For more than a decade, a section of the 400 block of Dauphin Street has sat in the shadows of Mobile’s booming entertainment district, a quiet gap in the city’s most vibrant corridor.
While crowds flowed freely with to‑go drinks on either side, this stretch remained frozen outside the boundaries of the entertainment district.
During Art Walks, visitors passed boarded windows tagged with graffiti. Two buildings still bear the scars of a 2023 fire that nearly consumed the block. The last remaining furniture store downtown closed its doors last year, leaving the block without an anchor…