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Mayor Reed pitches riverfront arena and convention-center expansion; city adds cameras and drones downtown

Mayor's Take Podcast · November 14, 2025
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Mayor Steven L. Reed said Montgomery City is in talks to expand its convention center and build a downtown arena, and that extra cameras and two drones have been added to downtown public-safety monitoring ahead of the holiday season.

Mayor Steven L. Reed said on the Mayor’s Take podcast that Montgomery City is in conversations to expand its convention center and build a downtown arena on the riverfront and expects to ask the Montgomery City Council to review plans within about a month to six weeks. "We're gonna be asking the the city council to take a look at all of that in the next month or so, maybe 6 weeks," Reed said.

Reed framed the project as an…

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