300-mile road to start in Orange Beach? Not exactly - Gulf Coast Newspapers
Well, not exactly.
While the Island was abuzz for a while Tuesday morning after the release, the actual southern end of the ambitious project is slated to be in Mobile.
"It's definitely going to be in the port of Mobile," spokesperson Amanda Flontek of Ameri-Metro said via phone Tuesday morning. "It will be three hundred miles of road. It's going to go from the port, Mobile, to the top of Alabama."
The entire project is reported to cost $7 billion, all privately funded, according the company's release.
Ameri-Metro is partnering with Alabama Toll Facilities, a private company that Ameri-Metro president Shah Mathias says is a nonprofit, formed in Cullman in 1993 which and also received a resolution of support from the state legislature for this project in 2007.
"The president of the company has been working on this for about eight years now and in the last two years it's really gotten into the development phase where they are getting all the engineering and everything behind it and funding," Flontek said. "Right now we're working with the Black Belt Commission and the Economic Development Association to get the land and they're kind of telling us where the road can go."
Mathias said today the project will be completely privately funded and will go back to the state "for no consideration" once the debt is paid.
It is also much more than a road, the company release said. According to the release, "in 2014, Ameri-Metro will begin construction of an inland port in central Alabama, consisting of a 4,000-acre site and 19-million square feet of storage space. In addition, the project will include the nation's largest freight and passenger airport, including four 18,000-foot runways to accommodate both Boeing Dream Liners and A380 airbuses. At present, no other airport in the nation provides such an extensive runway system."
Mathias also said the inland port will include the "Grand Central Station of the South – a 60,000-square-foot passenger and freight train station, with a complex including a 100,000-square-foot evacuation center and a fire, police, and ambulance station. The French Victorian structure will include boutique shops and a luxury hotel."
"We have a lot of support from the cargo industry we have a lot of manufacturing facilities that want to come up there," Mathias said Tuesday morning.
The company reports the project will create 14,000 jobs from the beginning of the project.
21 Sep, 2011--
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