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Mobile Wants to Give City Employees COVID Bonuses
Mobile, Ala., Mayor Sandy Stimpson has proposed that the city copy Birmingham’s plan to give its full-time and part-time city employees a $5,000 and $2,500 bonus, respectively, for working during the coronavirus pandemic.
June 16, 2021 • (TNS) Mobile, Ala., Mayor Sandy Stimpson on Tuesday urged the city to copy Birmingham and give a $5,000 bonus to every full-time city employee, and $2,500 to part-time workers.
Stimpson says the money would come from federal relief for COVID-19. The Mobile city council could vote on the plan sometime after June 29. Birmingham city leaders have already endorsed their plan, and the bonus checks are expected to go out to 3,500 full-time employees this month.
McFarland Mall demolition, redevelopment in Tuscaloosa ‘a long time coming’
Updated Feb 22, 2021;
Posted Feb 22, 2021
The McFarland Mall site is located at 900 Skyland Blvd East in Tuscaloosa. The mall was built in 1968 and opened in 1969. (Ben Flanagan/AL.com)
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The demolition of McFarland Mall is set to take place between 8-8:30 a.m. on Tuesday in Tuscaloosa.
Property owner and local businessman Stan Pate streamed a drone video on Facebook Monday to announce the demolition will take place, inviting the community to watch “phase one” of the 2.5-acre plot’s flattening.
“We’re gonna take care of business here and put this mall first phase on the ground,” Pate said in the video. “We’re gonna try to do it in less than two hours. Been a long time coming.”
McFarland Mall demolition: Watch the shopping center come down
Updated Feb 23, 2021;
The demolition of McFarland Mall is underway in Tuscaloosa. See it in the video above and in the photos below.
Property owner and local businessman Stan Pate announced this week the demolition would take place, inviting the community to watch “phase one” of the 2.5-acre plot’s flattening.
Several excavators lined the front of the mall, as Pate and Tuscaloosa City Councilwoman Sonya McKinstry spoke to media ahead of counting down the start of the razing. The diggers then tore into the old Shoe Station and Sticks N Stuff storefronts.