Spanish Fort Shopping Center — Local services in Spanish Fort

Need to halt design and apply common sense Community Development ideas (fulfill basic needs), and install sidewalks and paths between areas that are seamless, continuous, able to be used by wheelers, strollers and walkers. This would be the number one thing to make this a usable little village, and a destination, where one could stay in a hotel or live in the apartments or park once, and access all of the shopping and such without driving. Great opportunities here for the sloping terrain to be a feature, with a footbridge, perhaps with water feature, from the hotel area to the commerce area. Upgrade this property and you will fill those empty stores, fill a niche and rival your competitors bc you have something they don't--a little "valley," housing and lodging and a waterpark and a trampoline park. Also, go to the property corner, behind lazyboy, turn and look. You can see the bay! Remember wheelchair-users, families and heed the...

Nice coffee shop at PJ's. Very nice baristas. Drinks are awesome but tend to be more expensive than Starbucks. The atmosphere is really great; it's quiet, there are books for everyone, and there's classical music on that you can actually hear, to name a few awesome things. I also like the drive thru. You order and they'll help you nicely with it if you want to know more about their unique drinks. Gotta love their beignets! Got them almost all the time; they're fresh and hot! Food is good too. I'm pretty sure they make it in store, not shipped like Starbucks. Really seems like a good Mom and Pop place even though...

I came hoping to see the Spanish fort. Security for the fort was far more lax than expected. While I was there not a single conquistador or pikemen were in evidence. I felt slightly anxious knowing Napoleonic or British troops could storm in unopposed at any moment. Most of the other visitors seemed unaffected and just continued haggling with the vendors, of which there were far more than expacted. I worry that the lack of military readiness could signal the collapse...