Adventure company and sweet treats are among new businesses coming at the beach
OWA Parks & Resort has a new attraction that promises fun after dark.
Aura Adventures, an outdoor adventure company, has opened at OWA, off South OWA Boulevard, in Foley.
Aura features glow-in-the-dark night kayak experiences on the lake in Downtown OWA. Aura also offers pedal boats and paddle board adventures.
The deal is just one of notable real estate transactions in coastal Alabama in recent days.
- Lanae, an online cabinetry wholesaler, has leased 29,050 square feet of space at 65 Sidney Phillips Drive in Mobile, according to Chris Harle and Leigh Dale Younce of White-Spunner Realty, who represented the landlord.
- CPAP Plus has leased 1,449 square feet of space in Foley Square Shopping Center at 2434 McKenzie St., in Foley, and plans to open next month, according to Robert Cook of Vallas Realty and Joe Roe Burton of Burton Property Group, who handled the transaction. This will be the medical equipment supplier’s fourth location in south Alabama.
- New sweet businesses are arriving in time for summer: Crave Cookies has opened at Wharf Portside at 4593 Main St., at The Wharf in Orange Beach. And Gage’s Ice Cream has opened in The Square, a mixed-use development at 1538 Gulf Shores Parkway in Gulf Shores.
- Three new stores are joining the lineup in the Eastern Shore Centre off Ala. 181 in Spanish Fort: Blooming Fabulous Flower Shop, Fluffy Pet Shop and Escapology, a family friendly escape room concept.
- The city of Orange Beach has renamed the former Bear Point Cemetery the Municipal Cemetery, which sits on a quarter of an acre near Canal Road and Campagno Lane in Orange Beach. The cemetery was owned by the Orange Beach Volunteer Fire Department, which was dissolved a few years ago. The OBVFD donated the cemetery to the city.