Council Economic Development Committee - Regular Meeting

Everybody. This is the council economic development committee. It is 05:04PM. It is Monday, 02/02/2026. And, mister Castro, you will take roll. Yep. Council member Polia? Present. Okay. And Present. And mayor Salinas? Present. Thank you. Next public comments. This is, reserved for anybody in the audience that would like to make a public comment on something on the agenda. Seeing no one in the audience, I'd to close public comments, and I'll move on to approval of miss.

I'll move. Second.

Moved by council member Andrew, second by council member Cheney. And there to objection. Next is report action items, which is, retail, corridor, tour, Miss Baring Boulevard, morals report.

Thank you, Andrew. Paul Nguyen, chief economic development officer to kick it off. This is an introduction you'll get, today, we are going the second of several retail photo tours. You may recall, four door these retail photo tours was the request from this committee to be allowed to go out to different parts of the city, extending beyond downtown, which we often receive a lot of comments that are overemphasized in downtown. So today, we'll be taking a narrated tour of the Hesperian Retail Corridor narrated by my team, Javier Castro, who's done a tremendous amount of work.

We'll have a brochure, a narrated tour with some designated stops to big businesses and small businesses. And we invite the public, seeing none here, but there is information with a map that you that you have here with anticipated stops all the way. So with that, then you can pause this meeting and then proceed to the basement where mister Mau is waiting to

Mister Mau is in the, economic development in Mobile. Yes.

The smaller band is What? Smaller band because all the big bands were sold out for Super Bowl. So we were actually lucky

to be in

this one.