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Board holds Ace Theater application 60 days after residents raise parking, historic‑district concerns
Summary
The board agreed to hold over a variance request for the Ace Theater’s conversion into a concert and cultural venue to allow more neighborhood discussion after residents and community groups raised parking and preservation concerns. The applicant said the project would primarily serve the Excelsior Band and adjacent cultural plans.
The Mobile City Board of Adjustment voted to hold over for 60 days a variance application to convert the historic Ace Theater at 503 Congress Street into a concert and cultural venue.
John Rusick, representing Porchlight and the Excelsior Band, asked for a variance to permit an event venue in a T4 subdistrict with a seating plan described as 100 fixed seats plus roughly 50 movable seats for flexible capacity. Staff…
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