MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) — The City of Mobile and its partners are building more workforce housing.
New homes are going up on Phillips Lane near Forest Hill Elementary School. The city is calling this a true public private partnership with a developer who brought the idea before the city.
“He had identified property on Phillips Lane. It was a single-owner property that had been held there for a while. It’s just land, vacant land. He contacted the owner, came to us, proposed the idea, and then purchased the property himself,” said Jamey Roberts, City of Mobile Director of Neighborhood Development…