Africatown was supposed to be attracting tourists this summer with the opening of the Heritage House museum and with land and water tours on the horizon. But the museum’s opening is delayed until the end of the year.
For now, the biggest issue coming out of Africatown revolves around zoning, and the creation of a “Safe Zone” amendment that Mobile city officials are set to discuss and possibly vote on next week.
The amendment is also viewed as the only loose end remaining in the approval of the UDC, the most wide-ranging change to Mobile’s zoning law in at least 50 years. It was first rolled out by Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson’s administration about a year ago. Lays out a boundary for the Safe Zone that includes much of the existing residential areas within Africatown, but also areas bordering Paper Mill Road and extending to Lewis Quarters. But the map does not extend east of Paper Mill to the waterfront, where most of the existing heavy industry has long been located.
On the other end is the Africatown Community Development Corporation , headed up by longtime Africatown residents Angela and Cleon Jones, who was a member of the 1969 “Miracle” Mets, and is enshrined in that team’s Hall of Fame. Womack says that Jones is being pushed as the “leader of the community,” which he says is not the case. And Womack, according to Angela Jones, does not support ACDC as the “only working organization” in Africatown. She disputes the widespread notion that the community is contaminated and believes the industry has been valuable in employing the residents.Construction continues on the Heritage House in the Africatown community of Mobile, Ala., on Monday, May 23, 2022. .
A Welcome Center, which would be constructed across from the Old Plateau Cemetery – where Clotilda survivors and descendants are buried – is also still in the planning stages. According to a city spokesman, the city of Mobile is working to finalize a design and engineering contract with Studio 2H Design and their team.
Ludgood, who is spearheading those efforts, said the project’s entire cost will be around $1 million.
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