The Silent Partner: Commercial Development Authority board responsible for Oxford's growth
Five years ago, there was little but an overgrown wooded area south of Interstate 20’s exit 188. Today the once-empty space is dominated by the city’s new economic engine, the Oxford Exchange, with its rows of name-brand, big-box retailers and parking lots full of cars driven by shoppers whose money fills the city’s swelling coffers.

Mar 29, 2009 | 0  | 13  | 

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The Silent Partner: Changes in law give more power to cities
Landing a big retail store in Alabama sometimes takes serious bait. Since 1994, Oxford’s Commercial Development Authority has been the city’s fishing pole. The city baited the CDA’s hook by providing grading and infrastructure work for retail property.

Mar 31, 2009 | 0  | 12  | 

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CDA contracts not at Oxford City Hall
People looking for contracts signed by Oxford’s Commercial Development Authority won’t find them at City Hall where the board meets. They’re up the road on East 13th Street in Anniston in the office of city attorney John Phillips. Their location may put the city on the wrong side of state law which says records must be kept in the principal office of the CDA . And the principal office, the law says, must be in Oxford’s city limits.

May 27, 2009 | 1  | 8  | 

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