The Mobile Area of Chamber of Commerce has collected $9.24 million in pledges for its next five-year economic development campaign, on the way to a $10 million goal.

Officials with the Ohio-based company said they hoped to be turning out houses by fall, starting with 65 employees and growing to 155 within three years.

France Horton's sister, Doris Thomas Isbell Stanton of Mobile, was here Wednesday for the Policemen's Memorial Service.