[StBernard] How Mobile AL sees move of Int'l Shipholdings

[Westley Annis]

John, excellent point.
 
And from what I've been reading about the GO-ZONE opportunities, this
company might have been able to obtain land on the river, construct their
warehouse and get the tax benefits of more accelerated depreciation on it.
However, I guess having Mobile, Baldwin county and the state of Alabama hand
you $23 mill in "incentives" makes leaving the easier choice.
 
Jim York
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JLY, thanks for posting this. You know what is absurd about this is a while
back Walter Boasso proposed that a new, state of the art terminal facility
could be built on the Miss. river's east back either in St. Bernard parish
or Braithwaite where all the MRGO tenants could easily be relocated. The
total cost to build the new facility could be paid for within 15 years (or
sooner) from the annual funds saved by not having to dredge and maintenance
the MRGO.

Now wouldn't that have made sense? We Corps of Engineers could have already
begun the work of closing the MRGO and we wouldn't have lost a single job to
Mobile, AL or anyone else.

John Scurich