Excelsior Band: Renovation of historic theater clears key hurdle with city

For decades it has sat abandoned and forgotten.

A two-story brick building on Congress Street in Downtown Mobile that once was an entertainment destination for Mobile’s segregated African American community.

But the increased appreciation for Mobile’s black history has redevelopment projects swirling around the old theater. And now, that building, the old Ace Theater, has been caught in the flow…

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