Apartment Choice

The Mobile City Council has approved the sale of the Water Street building known as City Hall North , clearing its way for redevelopment as an apartment complex , and a consultant on the project said that groundbreaking could come next spring. District 2 Councilman Levon Manzie announced his "100 percent support" for the project and pledged to assist developers any way he could. "I can't think of a better way to describe 350 St. Joseph Street than to say it's not now needed for public or municipal purposes," Manzie said as the council voted. "It has been a blight on that corner of DeTonti Square for a long time. And that entrance is one of the gateways to our beautiful city." "I know those employees who worked at old City Hall North are not sad to see it go," commented Council President Gina Gregory . "It will be a tremendous improvement." Occupying a roughly triangular lot where St. Joseph Street hits Water Street , the bu...

A woman and a 16-year-old male have been arrested and charged for robbery on Primrose Street two weeks ago in Dartmouth.Police say on Aug. 4 at about 7 p.m., a 16-year-old was arrested from Dartmouth inside a restaurant on Nantucket Avenue in Dartmouth.Eleven days later, an 18-year-old woman was arrested in Truro at 9:10 p.m. on Aug. 15. She was later taken back to Halifax.According to Halifax Regional Police (HRP), officers responded to an apartment building on Primrose Street at 3:08 p.m. on Aug. 2. Story continues below Police say a 55-year-old man had entered the building and was followed by a woman and a male youth the man says he had seen at a drugstore on Primrose where he made a purchase. HRP says the man believed the couple followed him to his apartment and forced their way in as he entered.The woman had a rock in her hand and the 16-year-old had a knife and they demanded the man’s property, police say. The man then stomped his feet on the floor, alerting his neighbour who ca...