Nicholas joining ECIDA
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer After six years with Coastal Gateway Economic Development Alliance, the last nine months as its interim director, Jess Nicholas is hanging out his own shingle. Nicholas worked on the deals that eventually brought Brown Precision to Atmore, Provalis to Brewton and many other industrial concerns to the five-county CGEDA service area. The Monroe County native said he had hoped to continue the work of…