In 1957, a four-acre site on “the western outskirts of Mobile” was purchased from the Government Street Presbyterian Church by Palmer and Baker, an engineering firm that had been responsible for the construction of the Bankhead Tunnel some 20 years earlier. The property had once been considered for a westward move by that congregation which happily never occurred.
The engineering firm, which was founded in 1938 by Wayne Palmer, had grown substantially, and the new facility was designed to house 400 employees at an estimated cost of more than $600,000. Currently, that would equate to just under
$7 million…