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Old 10-31-2023, 05:31 AM
 
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
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I found a cool video of the Pizitz Food Hall and Sidewalk cinema in downtown Birmingham! Crazy because that entire building was an abandoned eyesore just 10 years ago!


https://youtu.be/msmsYmLRN0k?si=AAl2j6lxASODXK29
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Old 11-03-2023, 02:40 PM
 
Location: Madison, Alabama
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Woa !!! When did Nola fall below 1 million !?! They better hope Red Stick residents don't get a hold of that info.
They already have that information as of last April. They lost a large parish from their metro at the last update, dropping from 8 to 7 parishes, so it's not so much that they're shrinking that fast (but they are losing people) but rather the way the metropolitan area is delineated.

On the other hand, Birmingham picked up Walker County that had been dropped last time around (likely because of I-22 opening), but it's a pretty small county.
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Old 11-05-2023, 05:53 AM
 
Location: Mobile,Al(the city by the bay)
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They already have that information as of last April. They lost a large parish from their metro at the last update, dropping from 8 to 7 parishes, so it's not so much that they're shrinking that fast (but they are losing people) but rather the way the metropolitan area is delineated.

On the other hand, Birmingham picked up Walker County that had been dropped last time around (likely because of I-22 opening), but it's a pretty small county.
Gotcha
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Old 11-07-2023, 08:53 PM
 
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If downtown is growing rapidly, that must mean the rest of the city is collapsing rapidly... because while the downtown population as increased by like 6,000 over the last 15 years, the other neighborhoods have lost more than 20,000 in that time frame.

Tourian is so delusional.
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Old 11-08-2023, 02:30 PM
 
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
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Construction is ramping up on the Southtown redevelopment project!

https://www.al.com/news/2023/11/work...velopment.html
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Old 12-12-2023, 11:50 AM
 
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Construction is ramping up on the Southtown redevelopment project!

https://www.al.com/news/2023/11/work...velopment.html

So what's the deal with a few of the old housing units in Southtown still being occupied? I know it's part of some preordained plan. Are the residents of those buildings moving into the new construction once completed?
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Old 12-12-2023, 06:16 PM
 
Location: 35203
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Are the residents of those buildings moving into the new construction once completed?
Yes. The majority of those that stayed were elder residents. That is why the first apartments constructed was for them. Once they move in, then they will demo the remaining dated units.
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Old 12-13-2023, 06:15 AM
 
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Yes. The majority of those that stayed were elder residents. That is why the first apartments constructed was for them. Once they move in, then they will demo the remaining dated units.

Thanks! My wife and I were speculating on that.
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Old 01-08-2024, 09:42 PM
 
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Being a Birmingham resident and former Homer myself I think I can honestly say it's because we are jealous of our neighbors and we wish so bad to be in the national conversation with Nashville and Atlanta primarily, then other midsize faster growing metros to a lesser degree. Birmingham residents cannot stand the fact that Austin, Charlotte, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Nashville, ATL, and Tampa are growing like wildfire and get all the attention. They can't stand that other cities are first to get the latest/newest trends and we're left behind 10 years or so.

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huh??? Have you ever thought that the successful people birmingham does have stay here because it's *not* Atlanta or nashville?

If I had wanted to spend the last ten years in a big city I......would have moved. It's not like the bigger cities have a "not allowed" sign. I could easily get a job in those places.

I don't think birmingham thinks about those much more prominent(and much busier and much more hectic and much more traffic and generally much more expensive) cities much at all.

This doesn't make any sense.
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Old 01-08-2024, 09:48 PM
 
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Bet you won't see AL.COM report this, or the fact that metro Birmingham is now larger than metro New Orleans. But had it been a certain other city, it would have been plastered all over their website. It's cool though! Just stay tuned!
In any real sense the birmingham area is not larger than new orleans. A 5 year old could pull up pictures of new orleans(the downtown area, the french qtr, other sections) and compare them to birmingham and see that one of these is more prominent than the other. And some wonky definition of metro areas that says someone living way outside jasper freaking alabama is part of the birmingham area changes that......

and btw I'd much rather live in the birmingham area.
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