“Modern American Recycling Services (MARS)”
That’s where I worked until I retired. Actually I got pissed off and quit. I worked at that facility for 20 years through 4 different owners. It was a shipyard until MARS bought it and turned it into more of a scrapyard and then sold most of it to Austal.
Thank you very much for your personal on-the-ground knowledge.
I’d noticed in the owner changes and name evolutions, MARRS lost an R. It was a tad strange because the present map label and news articles refer to the place as MARRS, when there’s no MARRS on their website.
The most current street view is from 2019, where MARRS is the name on the building, having replaced the names of the previous owners in the viewing history.
The lost R was obviously the R for “repair”.
And then I’d found these, news timing immediately following the inauguration “steel”:
JANUARY 23, 2019 — Modern American Recycling Services, Inc. (M.A.R.S.), a leader in the scrap recycling industry, reports that it completed a transaction acquiring World Marine, LLC on January 22, 2019.
For Mobile, the sale means — according to MARS — that the location will continue to operate as a full-service shipyard, with additional recycling services. It will be known as Modern American Recycling and Repair Services, or MARRS.
MARS, based in Louisiana, was established in 1971 and describes itself as “the largest barge dismantler in the United States,” scrapping an average of 1,200 barges per year. It also dismantles ships as well as drilling rigs and platforms.
RSA sells Mobile shipyard; new owner to add recycling
Updated: Jan. 28, 2019, 2:59 p.m.|Published: Jan. 28, 2019, 2:54 p.m.
https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2019/01/rsa-sells-mobile-shipyard-new-owner-to-add-recycling.html