By John Sharp
Gulf Shores and a development team for a new Embassy Suites were to celebrate a “topping out” of the $140 million convention hotel on Thursday, but Mother Nature got into the way.
Hurricane Francine, which made landfall along the Louisiana coast Wednesday afternoon, is the latest obstacle for a project that has had plenty of them since it was first OK’d by Gulf Shores leaders in 2018 when the project was estimated to cost $85 million.
