Trent Pflaum and Lewis Golden both live in Mobile’s Oakleigh Garden District and both believe in the potential of revitalizing downtown and midtown. And both on Wednesday, hope to learn how to do it.

“It’s a different animal,” Golden says. “There’s all sorts of hoops to jump through. There are lots of things to consider, and I don’t know what I don’t know.”

The Downtown Mobile Alliance (DMA) is putting on a workshop to help people who want to make a difference in the historic neighborhoods central to Mobile.

They call it “small scale development” and the workshop will provide the coaching the DMA says is needed to understand development in Mobile’s historic neighborhoods.

“We’re looking to people in the community that have the bee in their bonnet for development,” Elizabeth Stevens, president of the DMA, says. “We want people who want to develop and improve their neighborhoods, and we want them to be successful.”