Mobile entered into a 22-year contract Tuesday with Colorado-based Oak View Group to manage its new $300 million Civic Center ...

The Ace Theatre has sat mothballed for nearly five decades. Mobile officials coveted the building as an anchor to an ongoing civil rights and cultural heritage district.

But with a tour due to begin soon in Mobile, Drew and Ellie Holcomb have been struggling through it. “I’m a little bit more of the drill sergeant, so I have to keep Ellie in line,” said Drew. “It’s ...