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Birmingham Museum of Art Opens Café BMA by Kathy G., a Return to the Past

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Café BMA by Kathy G. opened at the Birmingham Museum of Art this week. (City of Birmingham)

By Chanda Temple | City of Birmingham

As Jason Mezrano worked in the kitchen at the Birmingham Museum of Art earlier this month, everything felt familiar to him.

Real familiar.

Jason Mezrano (City of Birmingham)

He’s part of Kathy G. & Company, which once used to run the café at the museum. The company’s museum café closed more than 12 years ago. But this month, the company returned to run the cafe again, which is now called Café BMA by Kathy G. Within one hour of its soft opening, people were at tables, ordering house salads, angus beef burgers, chicken salad, quiche and more.

“It’s an honor to come back. I feel at home at the Museum of Art,’’ said Jason, executive chef. “We are so glad to be here.’’

The café officially opened on Feb. 11, and will have regular operating days on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jason said they are planning to have a Sunday Easter Brunch and a Sunday Mother’s Day Brunch with jazz music. He said more details will be provided soon on those events.

Jason is the son of Kathy G. Mezrano, founder of Kathy G. He said his mother played a major role in the look of the café, from the wait staff’s aprons and uniforms to the white linens and each table topped with glass vases filled with a fresh flower and greenery.

One lunch table on Wednesday was full of museum staffers, including Museum Director Graham Boettcher.

“Kathy G. and Jason Mezrano have knocked it out of the park. They know the food that people will enjoy most,’’ Graham said. “They know how to prepare it and know this community really well. I know that they will be really successful in this space.’’

“When I arrived at the museum 20 years ago, they ran the (museum) restaurant. So, having them back feels like a full circle moment.’’

The café menu features Kathy G’s classic French recipe chicken salad, which can come on whole wheatberry bread for a sandwich or with a salad. As a salad plate, it is topped with toasted almond slivers, has a touch of Dijonnaise, has tarragon and is accented with a whole wheat sourdough crostini and two, long flatbread crackers from Continental Bakery. The chicken salad plate comes with seasonal fruit, such as kiwi, grapes, blueberries and a slice of cantaloupe.

Some other menu items include:

• Cedar Planked Salmon, which is topped with a grilled onion crust and apple smoked bacon and presented on a bed of freshly made vegetable ratatouille

• Pan Seared Herbed Chicken “Nicoise” Salad on local greens with marinated cherry tomatoes, French green beans, grilled fingerling potatoes, a soft boiled egg, and a citrus vinaigrette

• White Truffle and Oil Parmesan Pommes Frites that when dipped into the accompanying roasted garlic aioli, taste close to a Lay’s Sour Cream and Onion potato chip

• The Café BMA House Salad made with mixed greens and frisse, spiced pecans, grilled honey glazed pears, crumbled belle chevre cheese and homemade sourdough from Continental Bakery

• Butternut Squash Soup, which has a little nutmeg and a trace of cinnamon blended in with roasted butternut squash. Each creamy and hearty serving is accented with fried sage on top to add additional flavor and texture.

• Flourless Chocolate Torte with Whipped Cream and Raspberries served on plate drizzled in chocolate sauce and raspberry sauce

• A kid’s menu includes a grilled cheese sandwich and fries; chicken finger and fries; or a PBJ sandwich served with strawberries and blueberries

“Café BMA is about creating food that feels thoughtful, welcoming, and connected to the experience of being in the museum,” said Jason. “It’s an honor to be part of the BMA and to contribute to how visitors gather and enjoy their time here.”

ASFA Students Hear First-Hand from Original Cast Member of “Rent”

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Rodney Hicks, a cast member from the original Broadway production of Rent, visited with students at the Alabama School of Fine Arts. (Provided)

By Sherrel Wheeler Stewart | For The Birmingham Times

Aspiring theatre performers and producers at the Alabama School of Fine Arts got a firsthand glimpse of the reality of stage life recently with a visit from Rodney Hicks, a cast member from the original Broadway production of Rent. He was in Birmingham as a special guest for opening night of Rent, being presented by the Virginia Samford Theatre at Caldwell Park.

Rodney Hicks

Hicks was in his early 20s in 1996 when he took the stage as Paul in the original Broadway production of the Tony Award winning play. Rent, a story of love, resilience, community, hit Broadway as America and the world faced an expanding AIDS crisis.

Hicks returned to Rent in 2007 and was cast as Benny in the show’s closing season. He also was in the cast of Jesus Christ Superstar, and Come from Away. He currently stars in the Netflix series Forever.

He said he enjoys talking with developing artists. “Your purpose is not what you do. It’s what happens when you do what you do,” Hicks told the gathering of about two dozen students in a small ASFA theatre.

For him, the dream of being an artist started when he was 5 years old. He began working in the industry at the age of 17 on a show called Dance Party USA. He’s learned valuable lessons since that time.

“When you have leads, honor everyone in your space. Conduct yourself as a leader,” he said. “These are things you are not told in college. You learn as you go. Don’t ever give up on yourself. This is hard. You have to fall, because that is how you learn to stand.”

Hicks was joined at ASFA and at opening night by Birmingham native and veteran New York actor/producer Erich McMillan McCall. The two actors emphasized the importance of community theatre in developing young actors and producers.

“When community theatres and regional theatres across the nation present pieces that are a fabric of our culture, it can help move the needle forward to effective harmony and change,” Hicks said in a follow-up interview. “Attend live theatre. Support live theatre. Talk about live theatre to ensure community engagement.”

The Virginia Samford Theatre will present Rent Thursday – Sunday, February 19-22. For more information visit www.virginiasamfordtheatre.org.

I Immediately said ‘Yes’ Because I Loved Him’

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BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY | Special to the Birmingham Times

ROY & PATRICE WILLIAMS

Live: Huffman

Married: Sept. 14, 1991

Met: Fall 1986, at Jacksonville State University [JSU]. Roy was a senior and Patrice a freshman. They’d crossed paths a few times, but the first encounter was at the first college party Patrice ever attended at the Leone Cole Auditorium on campus.

“I remember this tall skinny guy asking me to dance and he was trying to talk to me while we danced and I couldn’t understand anything he was saying,” Patrice recalled. “And when the song was over I got off that dance floor so quick, it was like ‘exit stage right’ because who tries to talk while they’re on the dance floor?”

By January 1987, Patrice and Roy made a connection that lasted. She began working for the school newspaper, The Chanticleer as the secretary where Roy was the news editor and recalled that Patrice had still not begun paying him any interest.

“…and when she started working there, I thought she was cute, and I told the editor, who was my former girlfriend,” he remembered, “I said, ‘I think I like that girl’ … And we would have these office gatherings and would go out as a group. One day in walks the editor, [and asks in front of everyone] ‘did you ask her?’,” Roy said.

“And I’m looking like, ‘ask me what?” Patrice said. And Roy was like, ‘oh yeah…do you want to go to the movies?’ And I said, ‘well, sure, when is it [the outing]? because I was thinking it was an office group thing, not a one-on-one thing.”

“I purposely chose a horror movie because I knew she’d have to huddle up close and squeeze on to me,” Roy laughed.

First date: February 1987, at a local movie theater in downtown Anniston to see ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.’ Roy picked Patrice up from her dorm’s lobby.

“Back then, it was an all-girls dorm and men couldn’t come up to the door, the RA would call you down … and when I got to the lobby it was just him, and at that time I was very ‘roll with the flow.’ I worked with him, so I trusted him and went ahead with him. But when I got to the car and saw no one else, that’s when it [really clicked] that it was just going to be us,” Patrice said.

Patrice added that Roy was the perfect gentleman. “I was really stepping outside of my norm by going to a horror movie, but he was very genteel. He asked if I wanted some popcorn, and he opened doors. He was very attentive, and he was giggling when I jumped at something happening on the screen. I spent most of the movie with my eyes closed,” Patrice laughed.

Roy remembered being happy to be in her presence. “I had to work to pursue her, and I eventually won her over,” he said. “I liked her, and I asked if I could come see her again and I would come to her dorm to study, and she would come to mine…”

The turn: October of 1987, Roy and Patrice attend the International House Ball, a formal which is where American students resided with the foreign students. It was then that Roy, who was a senior, knew he had fallen for Patrice, who was a freshman. Knowing he was about to graduate in December and move to Georgia to start working for the Columbus (GA) Ledger-Enquirer come January 1988, Roy proposed they date and leave room to see where it went. However, by December 1987, during Christmas break, Roy couldn’t bear the thought of ending the relationship.

“I fell for her. We had been dating for about three months, and I told her, ‘I think I’m falling for you. Would you be willing to stay in a relationship with me once I’m off campus?’ and she told me ‘yes,’” said Roy. “I came home as often as I could because I missed her. I knew I wanted this young lady who was still in college to remain mine. I couldn’t afford to come home often but I made it back at least once a month … And this was before cell phones when you had to pay to talk long-distance. I knew I wanted to ask her to marry me…”

“I was thinking of the caliber of man that Roy had shown himself to be and I was willing to endure the long-distance relationship,” Patrice said.

The proposal: Christmas Day, 1990, at Patrice’s parents’ home in Ragland, Alabama. Roy proposed in front of Patrice’ s family during the gift exchange, with her father’s blessing. Patrice was now a senior with only one more semester to go and by this time Roy was living in Birmingham and working at the Birmingham News. “I was making a lot more money, and only an hour away, and we had started really dating seriously and seeing each other very often,” Roy said.

“I was nervous, and I was hoping that I wouldn’t stumble over my words. And in a way, I wished that some of my family had been there. Her dad was a very serious man, and I remember him telling me, ‘You have my blessing, but if you can’t take care of her, you send her back home’ and I said, ‘no, sir, I can take care of her.”

“I think my sister knew Roy was about to propose because she was ready with the camera,” Patrice laughed. “But then Roy got down on his knee, and he was like ‘I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you,’ and I was thinking ‘this is really happening’, and I immediately said ‘yes’ because I loved him.”

Roy and Patrice Williams met at Jacksonville State University and began dating in 1987. The couple married in 1991. (Provided Photos)

The wedding: At Roy’s former church, Greater Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Leeds, Ala., officiated by Reverend Clyde Beverly Jr. Their colors were teal, peach, and silver.

Most memorable for the bride was Roy’s late brother Dwayne Williams, coming to her changing area on official best man business.

“We wrote our own vows to each other, and we were supposed to write them on a card and they were supposed to be taped to the prayer bench. And we [she and her bridal party] were in the secretary’s office waiting for the ceremony to start and Dwayne (who served in the U.S. Army) came to that office like he was on official Army business,” Patrice remembered. “He said, ‘I’m here for your vows, my job is to tape them onto the bench, and I was like there aren’t any; I’m going to speak from the heart. And he was like, ‘What?’ He looked at me like I had lost my mind, and I said, ‘I don’t have any, but it will be ok.”

Turns out Roy hadn’t written his either. “I told him, ‘I’m going to speak from the heart too.’ My brother was very disciplined, and he just couldn’t understand [flying by the seat of your pants].
Most memorable for the groom was being serenaded by Patrice’s brother, Andre Oden, as she walked down the aisle. “He was singing one of our favorite songs, Luther Vandross’s ‘Here and Now’ as Patrice walked down the aisle, and he was singing so beautifully, and I was in awe of this beautiful young lady who was walking down the aisle to be my wife,” Roy said.

They honeymooned on a cruise to the Bahamas. “It was both of our first cruise, and we remember being embarrassed at the dinner table sitting with a group of strangers,” Patrice said. “Someone asked what we had done today, and I responded, ‘we’re on our honeymoon’ and left it at that,” she laughed. “I guess they were trying to ask what excursions we had been on, and we had been on our own private excursion.”

Words of wisdom: “Always put God first. Never lose yourself and never depend on someone else to be your sole source of happiness,” Patrice said. “Find happiness within yourself and depend on your spouse to enhance the state that you’re already at.”

“As a couple, you must also realize it’s important to give the other person their personal time. Patrice went on a girl’s trip early this year and she’s about to go on another one. I think it’s important that you spend quality time together but also realize that they need their personal time too,” said Roy. “Also, realize that you never really know what true love is until you have gone through the fire. My brother, who was the best man at my wedding, got killed on 9/11 in the terrorist attack on the Pentagon, and if not for Patrice, I would not have made it because I was broken. Even 24 years later, she has patience because September is a rough month for me. The weeks leading up to [his brother’s death anniversary] I get in a dark place, and without Patrice’s willingness to be patient with me and realize that I am at my darkest and [dealing with] depression… She’s been my rock and brought me through that.

And, we had seven years of infertility [in our early marriage], in which I was ready to adopt, but Patrice did not give up. She would literally go to sleep rubbing on her stomach, basically saying God is going to give me a child … And then we had our first child, and then of course she was pregnant with our second child, our son, who she found out she was pregnant with after my brother was killed at the Pentagon…”

Patrice added: “True love in marriage is just the icing. There has to be a foundational relationship that’s there prior to all of that. Our cake is baked well … We both have a sweet tooth and we enjoy the icing, but we enjoy each other without the icing as well. When someone is sick and you’re there in those hard times (and we both had some health challenges), it’s the good and the bad. It’s knowing that you’ve got somebody in your corner that has your back on this journey with you, that you can trust. That’s sustaining power,” she said.

Happily ever after: The Williams attend the Tower of Prayer Church, in Leeds, they cofounded and serve as a deacon, deaconess and Patrice as the financial officer. They have two children, Naja, 26, and Royce, 24.

Patrice, 58, is a Ragland Ala. native [Saint Clair County], and Ragland High School grad. She attended Jacksonville State University [JSU], where she earned a BA in political science, minored in accounting and graduated cum laude. Patrice has worked for the Alabama Department of Human Resources for the last 33 years, where she serves as the program manager for all financial programs in the Bessemer region.

Roy, 61, is a Jacksonville, Ala. native, and Jacksonville High School grad. He attended Jacksonville State University [JSU], where he obtained a BA in English and a minor in communications. Roy was a journalist for 25 years and worked 23 years at the Birmingham News. For the last 10, he’s worked as the public relations specialist for the Birmingham Public Library.

“You Had Me at Hello’’ highlights married couples and the love that binds them. If you would like to be considered for a future “Hello’’ column, or know someone, please send nominations to editor@birminghamtimes.com. Include the couple’s name, contact number(s) and what makes their love story unique.

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Who Led the Civil Rights Movement for Decades, Has Died at 84

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson sits for an interview in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Jackson died Tuesday, he was 84. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

By Sophia Tareen | Associated Press

CHICAGO — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s assassination, died Tuesday. He was 84.

Jackson led a lifetime of crusades in the United States and abroad, advocating for the poor and underrepresented on issues from voting rights and job opportunities to education and health care. He scored diplomatic victories with world leaders, and through his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, he channeled cries for Black pride and self-determination into corporate boardrooms, pressuring executives to make America a more open and equitable society.

And when he declared, “I am Somebody,” in a poem he often repeated, he sought to reach people of all colors. “I may be poor, but I am Somebody; I may be young; but I am Somebody; I may be on welfare, but I am Somebody,” Jackson intoned.

It was a message he took literally and personally, having risen from obscurity in the segregated South to become America’s best-known civil rights activist since King.

Santita Jackson confirmed that her father died at home in Chicago, surrounded by family.

“Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a statement posted online. “We shared him with the world, and in return, the world became part of our extended family.”

Fellow civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton said his mentor “was not simply a civil rights leader; he was a movement unto himself.”

“He taught me that protest must have purpose, that faith must have feet, and that justice is not seasonal, it is daily work,” Sharpton wrote in a statement, adding that Jackson taught “trying is as important as triumph. That you do not wait for the dream to come true; you work to make it real.”

Despite profound health challenges in his final years including a rare neurological disorder that affected his ability to move and speak, Jackson continued protesting against racial injustice into the era of Black Lives Matter. In 2024, he appeared at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and at a City Council meeting to show support for a resolution backing a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.

“Even if we win,” he told marchers in Minneapolis before the officer whose knee kept George Floyd from breathing was convicted of murder, “it’s relief, not victory. They’re still killing our people. Stop the violence, save the children. Keep hope alive.”

Calls to action, delivered in a memorable voice

Jackson’s voice, infused with the stirring cadences and powerful insistence of the Black church, demanded attention. On the campaign trail and elsewhere, he used rhyming and slogans such as: “Hope not dope” and “If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it,” to deliver his messages.

Jackson had his share of critics, both within and outside of the Black community. Some considered him a grandstander, too eager to seek out the spotlight. Looking back on his life and legacy, Jackson told The Associated Press in 2011 that he felt blessed to be able to continue the service of other leaders before him and to lay a foundation for those to come.

“A part of our life’s work was to tear down walls and build bridges, and in a half century of work, we’ve basically torn down walls,” Jackson said. “Sometimes when you tear down walls, you’re scarred by falling debris, but your mission is to open up holes so others behind you can run through.”

In his final months, as he received 24-hour care, he lost his ability to speak, communicating with family and visitors by holding their hands and squeezing.

“I get very emotional knowing that these speeches belong to the ages now,” his son, Jesse Jackson Jr., told the AP in October.

Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., right, and his aide Rev. Jesse Jackson are seen in Chicago, Aug. 19, 1966. (AP Photo/Larry Stoddard, File)

A student athlete drawn to the Civil Rights Movement

Jesse Louis Jackson was born on Oct. 8, 1941, in Greenville, South Carolina, the son of high school student Helen Burns and Noah Louis Robinson, a married man who lived next door. Jackson was later adopted by Charles Henry Jackson, who married his mother.

Jackson was a star quarterback on the football team at Sterling High School in Greenville, and accepted a football scholarship from the University of Illinois. But after he reportedly was told Black people couldn’t play quarterback, he transferred to North Carolina A&T in Greensboro, where he became the first-string quarterback, an honor student in sociology and economics, and student body president.

Arriving on the historically Black campus in 1960 just months after students there launched sit-ins at a whites-only diner, Jackson immersed himself in the blossoming Civil Rights Movement.

By 1965, he joined the voting rights march King led from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. King dispatched him to Chicago to launch Operation Breadbasket, a Southern Christian Leadership Conference effort to pressure companies to hire Black workers.

Jackson called his time with King “a phenomenal four years of work.”

Jackson was with King on April 4, 1968, when the civil rights leader was slain at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Jackson’s account of the assassination was that King died in his arms.

With his flair for the dramatic, Jackson wore a turtleneck he said was soaked with King’s blood for two days, including at a King memorial service held by the Chicago City Council, where he said: “I come here with a heavy heart because on my chest is the stain of blood from Dr. King’s head.”

However, several King aides, including speechwriter Alfred Duckett, questioned whether Jackson could have gotten King’s blood on his clothing. There are no images of Jackson in pictures taken shortly after the assassination.

In 1971, Jackson broke with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to form Operation PUSH, originally named People United to Save Humanity. The organization based on Chicago’s South Side declared a sweeping mission, from diversifying workforces to registering voters in communities of color nationwide. Using lawsuits and threats of boycotts, Jackson pressured top corporations to spend millions and publicly commit to diversifying their workforces.

The constant campaigns often left his wife, Jacqueline Lavinia Brown, the college sweetheart he married in 1963, taking the lead in raising their five children: Santita Jackson, Yusef DuBois Jackson, Jacqueline Lavinia Jackson Jr., and two future members of Congress, U.S. Rep. Jonathan Luther Jackson and Jesse L. Jackson Jr., who resigned in 2012 but is seeking reelection in the 2026 midterms.

The elder Jackson, who was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1968 and earned his Master of Divinity in 2000, also acknowledged fathering a child, Ashley Jackson, with one of his employees at Rainbow/PUSH, Karen L. Stanford. He said he understood what it means to be born out of wedlock and supported her emotionally and financially.

Democratic presidential hopeful Jesse Jackson with his wife, Jacqueline, salutes the cheering crowd at Operation Push in Chicago, March 10, 1988. (AP Photo/Fred Jewell, File)

Presidential aspirations fall short but help ‘keep hope alive’

Despite once telling a Black audience he would not run for president “because white people are incapable of appreciating me,” Jackson ran twice and did better than any Black politician had before President Barack Obama, winning 13 primaries and caucuses for the Democratic nomination in 1988, four years after his first failed attempt.

His successes left supporters chanting another Jackson slogan, “Keep Hope Alive.”

“I was able to run for the presidency twice and redefine what was possible; it raised the lid for women and other people of color,” he told the AP. “Part of my job was to sow seeds of the possibilities.”

U.S. Rep. John Lewis said during a 1988 C-SPAN interview that Jackson’s two runs for the Democratic nomination “opened some doors that some minority person will be able to walk through and become president.”

Jackson also pushed for cultural change, joining calls by NAACP members and other movement leaders in the late 1980s to identify Black people in the United States as African Americans.

“To be called African Americans has cultural integrity — it puts us in our proper historical context,” Jackson said at the time. “Every ethnic group in this country has a reference to some base, some historical cultural base. African Americans have hit that level of cultural maturity.”

Jackson’s words sometimes got him in trouble.

In 1984, he apologized for what he thought were private comments to a reporter, calling New York City “Hymietown,” a derogatory reference to its large Jewish population. And in 2008, he made headlines when he complained that Obama was “talking down to Black people” in comments captured by a microphone he didn’t know was on during a break in a television taping.

Still, when Jackson joined the jubilant crowd in Chicago’s Grant Park to greet Obama that election night, he had tears streaming down his face.

“I wish for a moment that Dr. King or (slain civil rights leader) Medgar Evers … could’ve just been there for 30 seconds to see the fruits of their labor,” he told the AP years later. “I became overwhelmed. It was the joy and the journey.”

Exerting influence on events at home and abroad

Jackson also had influence abroad, meeting world leaders and scoring diplomatic victories, including the release of Navy Lt. Robert Goodman from Syria in 1984, as well as the 1990 release of more than 700 foreign women and children held after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. In 1999, he won the freedom of three Americans imprisoned by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

In 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded Jackson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor.

“Citizens have the right to do something or do nothing,” Jackson said, before heading to Syria. “We choose to do something.”

In 2021, Jackson joined the parents of Ahmaud Arbery inside the Georgia courtroom where three white men were convicted of killing the young Black jogger. In 2022, he hand-delivered a letter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago, calling for federal charges against former Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke in the 2014 killing of Black teenager Laquan McDonald.

Jackson, who stepped down as president of Rainbow/PUSH in July 2023, disclosed in 2017 that he had sought treatment for Parkinson’s, but he continued to make public appearances even as the disease made it more difficult for listeners to understand him. Earlier this year doctors confirmed a diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy, a life-threatening neurological disorder. He was admitted to a hospital in November.

During the coronavirus pandemic, he and his wife survived being hospitalized with COVID-19. Jackson was vaccinated early, urging Black people in particular to get protected, given their higher risks for bad outcomes.

“It’s America’s unfinished business — we’re free, but not equal,” Jackson told the AP. “There’s a reality check that has been brought by the coronavirus, that exposes the weakness and the opportunity.”

Former Associated Press writer Karen Hawkins, who left The Associated Press in 2012, contributed to this report. Associated Press writers Amy Forliti in Minneapolis and Aaron Morrison in New York contributed.

 

Entrepreneurship Center Launches in Birmingham to Boost Small-Businesses

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The Entrepreneurship Center for Growth and Excellence (EC) formally launched last week in Birmingham. (City of Birmingham)

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Delivering an important additional resource for small-business owners across the Magic City, the Entrepreneurship Center for Growth and Excellence (EC) formally launched last week at a gathering of the city’s elected leaders and business leaders.

The EC is a recipient of funding from the City of Birmingham’s Reinvest Birmingham initiative, Regions Bank, Kresge Foundation, Mastercard, and Prosper Birmingham. Further, the EC is launching with a unique strategy combining real-world data and hands-on experience to drive results, leading to small-business growth across the city.

“The Entrepreneurship Center for Growth and Excellence stands ready to assist Birmingham’s small businesses with the tools they need to succeed,” said Kendra Key, Executive Director of the EC. “Business owners in Birmingham are defined by an entrepreneurial spirit, plus offering a great product or service. Where the EC can help is by connecting entrepreneurs to existing resources and developing growth strategies to help local business owners take their company to the next level of success.”

The EC has four key purposes:

  1. Serving as a front door for Birmingham entrepreneurs seeking guidance on successful small-business ownership
  2. Driving strategies that lead to growth for locally owned businesses
  3. Convening the small-business ecosystem by bringing together business support organizations, advisors and strategists who can help small businesses grow
  4. Connecting local entrepreneurs with other entrepreneurs to share best practices and even identify ways they can grow their companies – together

Key is serving as a loaned executive to the EC from Regions Bank. Her role has been to understand local conditions and craft a sustainable response to her findings. This led to the development of the EC, where she is the inaugural executive director.

“Economic and community development are at the heart of our strategy for serving the places where we live and work,” said Leroy Abrahams, Executive Vice President and Head of Community Engagement for Regions Bank. “Our role in helping establish the Entrepreneurship Center signifies our commitment to Regions’ headquarters city while setting the stage for more business growth and prosperity here at home.”

 

Mayor Randall Woodfin speaks at the Entrepreneurship Center for Growth and Excellence launch. (City of Birmingham)

The primary goal of the EC is to work in collaboration with both small businesses and resource providers to create meaningful connections. The EC will be a catalyst for the entrepreneurial ecosystem, uplifting business support organizations serving the community while connecting small businesses to the resources they need.

While the EC will connect businesses to existing resource providers, the organization will also work to identify gaps in the ecosystem and recruit programs to fill those gaps. There is an established need for “systems work,” meaning behind-the-scenes activities that boost efficiency, growth, and communication among key players. The EC will address this need by working with stakeholders to accurately assess points of friction for business growth and find creative solutions that lead to measurable results. Behind-the-scenes work takes time and resources, but it is vital to truly meet the needs of the community.

About the Entrepreneurship Center for Growth and Excellence

The Entrepreneurship Center for Growth and Excellence (EC) is Birmingham’s central ecosystem hub — connecting local and emerging businesses to the knowledge, tools, and resources that drive measurable growth.

With the EC officially launched, business owners and resource providers are encouraged to visit the www.ecbham.com website and take the survey linked there to begin the process of engaging with the EC. To learn more about this organization, visit the EC’s website or contact: connect@ecbham.com.

Lawson State Elevates Lineworker Training with Bucket Truck from Alabama Power

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Lawson State received a previously owned bucket truck that will be used for training. (Provided)

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For aspiring utility lineworkers, there’s nothing like being familiar with tools of the trade, including the soaring heavy-duty bucket trucks used to repair transformers and electrical poles.

That’s one of the reasons Lawson State is grateful to receive a previously owned bucket truck that will be used for training. Presented to the college by Alabama Power, this workhorse teaching tool will help students rise more than 50 feet in the air to examine roadside utility poles.

“This is more than just a bucket truck and we are deeply grateful to Alabama Power,” said Lawson State President Dr. Cynthia T. Anthony. “This equipment will allow us to expand training in our lineworker program and in other areas that require similar skills.”

Reliable electric service depends on trained people. This equipment helps Lawson State train the next generation of linemen who will restore power safely and serve communities.

Overall, the demand for newly trained lineworkers is exceptionally high, according to labor data. And at Lawson, getting into the 10-week lineworker training program is extraordinarily tough. More than 300 people submitted their applications in late 2025; only 10 students were chosen.

As part of the program, they learn pole climbing, power line installation, truck driving, ladder safety and more. The addition of a bucket truck represents a practical training tool for the next generation of linemen.

Often, students who perform well during the rigorous training have job offers before they complete the program.

“When they go to work — whether for Alabama Power or another company — when they first get hired on the crew, they’re going to be on a bucket truck or a digger derrick,” explained instructor Gerald Jones, a retired lineman.

“This type of learning is hands-on,” he said, referring to the bucket truck. “This is something they’ll work with every day.”

Alabama Burger Joint Cooking Up 200 Free Meals to Share ‘A Little Love’

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Crystal, left, and Denise Peterson, co-owners of Yo' Mama's Restaurant, in downtown Birmingham are opening a new restaurant, On A Bun. (File)

By Mary Colurso | mcolurso@al.com

Free Burger Monday. It’s not an official holiday, but folks in Alabama can celebrate all the same.

On a Bun, a Birmingham burger joint owned by Denise and Crystal Peterson, is giving away 200 free meals on Feb. 16 at the downtown restaurant, 2328 Second Ave. North.

The mother-daughter duo aims to fill some bellies in their community, provide cheer on Presidents Day and spread the word about their newest eatery.

“Last year was hard financially for a lot of people,” Crystal Peterson says. “We want to introduce (our new brand) to people, but we also want to show them a little love. And we want to do it presidentially. Schools are going to be out on Monday, banks are going to be closed. So this might be the only meal that some people have.”

The Petersons earned many fans with their first restaurant, Yo’ Mama’s, which moved in January 2025 from the Second Avenue space to a bigger location a few blocks away.

Yo’ Mama’s, founded in 2014, continues to please customers in its new home at 2024 Fourth Ave. North, offering much-loved dishes such as chicken and waffles. The Petersons’ second restaurant, On a Bun, opened in summer 2025 and continues to build a clientele.

On Monday, the Petersons will be focused on burgers, paired with bags of chips and bottles of water. The meals will be bagged, Crystal says, and offered to anyone who shows up at On a Bun between 5-8 p.m. The only requirement for diners is to be present at the restaurant — the limit is one meal per person — and it’s first-come, first-served until all 200 meals are gone.

“It’s just our way to introduce ourselves to the community,” Peterson says. “Everybody knows Yo’ Mama’s in the community. We’re opening a new brand. We’ve been open for about six months, so we kind of want to get our foot stamped into the community over there again.”

On Monday, the Petersons will be focused on burgers, paired with bags of chips and bottles of water. The meals will be bagged, Crystal says, and offered to anyone who shows up at On a Bun between 5-8 p.m. (On A Bun)

As a bonus, On a Bun will donate 100 more meals on Monday to a Birmingham organization, Margins: Women Helping Black Women, to help feed homeless people in the city.

“We care about the locals, and we are locals,” Peterson says.

On a Bun is typically closed on Mondays, but will open its doors for three hours for the giveaway event. The restaurant seats 36 people, so Peterson expects that most meals will be grab-and-go.

Details matter at On a Bun; Peterson adds that people can choose a burger or cheeseburger at the giveaway. American cheese will be used for cheeseburgers, she says, and condiments like ketchup, mayonnaise and mustard will be available. Gluten-free buns will be available on request.

The restaurant’s usual hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, 5-9 p.m. The full menu features burgers (beef or turkey) with various toppings on brioche buns, fried chicken sandwiches, catfish sandwiches, pork chop sandwiches, sides and desserts.

Meet Reginald and Autumm Jeter: Birmingham Judge-and-Ph.D Couple on Patience, Purpose and Partnership in Marriage

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Circuit Court Judge Reginald Jeter and Autumm Jeter, Ph.D. have been married since July 2004. The couple met at a fraternity party at Miles College in 1998. (Amarr Croskey, For The Birmingham Times)

By Je’Don Holloway-Talley | Special to the Birmingham Times

(Third of Three Parts)

This Valentine’s Day, The Birmingham Times steps into the chambers of justice and the corridors of care to celebrate three extraordinary marriages where love lives at the intersection of duty and devotion. We shine a light on the relationships of three area judges and doctors who are building healthy bonds while serving a community shaped by history, faith, and resilience.

Love rises above all in the lives of Circuit Court Judge Fred Bolling and Brandi Bolling, M.D.; Circuit Court Judge David Hobdy and Cynthia Hobdy, M.D.; and Circuit Court Judge Reginald Jeter and Autumm Jeter, Ph.D.

On the bench, in the clinic, and in courtrooms, boardrooms, and state offices, these men and women are entrusted with the lives, liberties, and well-being of others. Yet at home, they are husbands and wives learning, like every couple, how to extend grace and use wisdom acquired over years of matrimony.

Over the next three days, we will share their love stories. Yesterday, the Bollings; Friday, the Hobdys and today, the Jeters.

CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE REGINALD JETER, & AUTUMM JETER, Ph.D.

Live: Hoover

Married: July 31, 2004

Met: At a Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity party at Miles College in 1998.

“I went to Talladega College, and he went to Samford [University]… My [AKA] sorority sisters and I went, and he and his [Kappa] fraternity brothers were there, and I noticed Reginald was a little quiet and reserved, but he was good looking,” Autumm said. It was a quick introduction, but long enough for Autumm to know she would not mind getting to know him better. “We had literally just met, but he was nice, so I gave him my phone number, and we started talking,” she said.

Reginald was intrigued by Autumm’s lively personality. “She was extremely talkative and outgoing, so that’s what made me want to talk to her,” Reginald remembered.

At the time, Autumm and Reginald were sophomores at their respective schools. “The relationship did not stick at first; we were sophomores in college… We did not become a couple until our senior year,” she said.

Both graduated from college in May 2001, moved back to Birmingham, and began pursuing their postgraduate education. Autumm started teaching and started graduate school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham [UAB] to earn her master’s degree, and Reginald started law school at the University of Alabama’s School of Law [UA]. They married in July 2004, and continued their education at Samford University, where Autumm received a Doctor of Education, and UAB, where Reginald received a Master of Business Administration.

Circuit Court Judge Reginald Jeter and Autumm Jeter, Ph.D. met at a fraternity party at Miles College in 1998. (Amarr Croskey, For The Birmingham Times)

Prioritizing love: For Reginald and Autumm, they recognized early on that prioritizing their love as much as they did their education and budding careers would be crucial. Before getting married, they lived separately and would go days without seeing each other due to their rigorous schedules.

“Early on, I realized that the same effort that I was putting into my education would have to be put into our relationship because we were not seeing each other every day, we had to be intentional,” said Reginald. “So just as I had to set a schedule for classwork and things of that nature, we also had to set time for us to be able to talk, go out to dinner, and spend time.”

“We made sure that we talked often and that we met often. There just was an intentionality about it, just because we both had demanding schedules,” Autumm added.

Asked how they protect their marriage when work never really turns off, Reginald said, “We do not really have a set schedule… so we cannot just leave the work [at the office]. There may be things that occur outside of the normal nine-to-five – [police] officers may have to get me to sign a warrant, or there may be an emergency issue where you have to get a judge to enter a mercy order. “We both realize our jobs are not your normal nine-to-five. So, we just have to be flexible.”

“If there’s something that we have scheduled to do with family, we generally don’t let anything interfere, unless it’s something we just cannot prevent,” Autumm said.

Seeing about each other: To keep the scales balanced, you simply “have to turn it off and just have to be there,” Autumm said. “We’ve been together 25 years, and married for 21, so we know what the other person needs. If Reginald wants to watch a game or a movie, I will do that with him. If I want to go to a concert or watch one of these reality shows, he will watch it with me. Or, currently, we have one in college, we will say, ‘Hey, let’s call our oldest.’ You have to stop the work for some time and see about each other and your family.”

“Your spouse is with you during your worst days and your best days,” Reginald said. “You have to have patience. There are times when you bring cases home with you, and we generally talk about them with each other. The same thing with her, she has things that go on in the school system, and we talk about it and bounce ideas off each other.”

Keeping the spark: Asked how they keep the spark alive, Autumm said it is all in doing special things with and for each other. “We celebrate Valentine’s Day, Christmas, and all of our birthdays, but it is in the special things we do for each other. You have to do the fun things the other person enjoys.”

“You just have to continue dating each other,” Reginald added. “The things that we did when we first got together, we still do. We schedule movie nights… and even after 21 years, we still date each other.”

Autumm Jeter, 47, is a Fairfield native and Fairfield Preparatory High School graduate. (Amarr Croskey, For The Birmingham Times)

Lessons learned. Asked what marriage has taught them, Autumm said, “Patience is needed in life and marriage because you merge into one. Careers add new stress, new phases, and new demands, so you have to be patient. Partnership means you are in it together, and purpose is supporting the things each other wants in life and just making it work.”

Reginald added, “You have to have patience. Purpose evolves, and partnership means carrying the other when they need encouragement. All three go together.”

Happily ever after: The Jeters attend The Worship Center Christian Church in Bessemer and have two sons, Jordan, 19, and Joshua, 16.

Reginald Jeter, 47, is a Birmingham native and a Ramsay High School graduate. (Amarr Croskey, For The Birmingham Times)

Autumm, 47, is a Fairfield native and Fairfield Preparatory High School graduate. She attended Talladega College, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in education, the University of Alabama at Birmingham [UAB], where she obtained a master’s degree in education, and Samford University, where she received a Doctor of Education degree. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. and is the current Assistant State Superintendent with the Alabama State Department of Education.

Reginald, 47, is a Birmingham native and a Ramsay High School graduate. He attended Samford University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and management, and the University of Alabama School of Law, where he obtained a Juris Doctor degree, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham [UAB], where he received a Master of Business Administration. Reginald is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. and currently serves as a Circuit Court Judge for Jefferson County.

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Birmingham Ignites Western Corridor Transformation with $2 Million SEEDS Act Grant

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Redeveloping the historic Ensley site and upgrading Birmingport will help turn once-thriving industrial land into a new engine for job growth and economic expansion. (Black Warrior Riverkeepers)

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The City of Birmingham has received a $2 million grant from the State of Alabama to begin transforming its Western Corridor into a major center for logistics and manufacturing. The funding comes from the SEEDS Act, a state program that helps prepare large sites for economic development. This first phase will focus on creating a master plan and conducting environmental studies for approximately 500 acres at the former U.S. Steel Ensley Works site, as well as improving the Birmingport facility.

Mayor Randall Woodfin

“This $2 million investment is about positioning Birmingham for long-term economic growth,” said Mayor Randall L. Woodfin. “We’re taking deliberate steps to prepare the Western Corridor for the next generation of industry. By investing in site readiness now, we are sending a clear message that Birmingham is open for business and ready to compete for high-quality jobs that will benefit our residents for decades to come.”

The goal is to build on Birmingham’s strong transportation network — with easy access to interstates, rail lines, air travel, and waterways — to attract new businesses. By modernizing the port and preparing this large industrial site, Birmingham supports current employers while also attracting national and global manufacturing and logistics companies.

“This is an important step toward unlocking the full potential of our Western Corridor,” said District 8 City Councilor Sonja Smith. “With a renewed focus on smart development, we are positioning our district to compete for major employers from across the country and bring real opportunities to the people who live here. I’m optimistic that this effort will bring fresh energy, expand opportunity, and help ensure lasting prosperity for families right here at home.”

Redeveloping the historic Ensley site and upgrading Birmingport will help turn once-thriving industrial land into a new engine for job growth and economic expansion. This effort will help diversify Birmingham’s economy and create more opportunities for residents.

“This investment is ultimately about investing in people,” said Council Pro Tem LaTanya Tate of District 9. “When we create real pathways to stable, well-paying jobs, we strengthen families and give our young people reasons to believe their future is right here at home. Economic opportunity is one of the most effective tools we have to make our neighborhoods safer and more vibrant. By preparing this site for new industry and growth, we’re building hope for our entire community.”

The planning and evaluation work will begin immediately. This is the first step toward attracting major investment, creating quality jobs, and positioning Birmingham as a key player in the Southeastern supply chain.

February 12, 2026

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By multiple measures, the Birmingham area has seen dramatic declines in unemployment since the pandemic. (Adobe Stock)

 

 

 

 

 

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BJCC, is recruiting for a 1) Payroll and Benefits Administrator for information & to apply visit https://www.bjcc.org/jobs/ or send resume to careers@bjcc.org /fax resume 205-458-8530.

 

 

 

 

 

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CASE NO. CV-2025-905503.00

 

 

 

 

 

NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING BY PUBLICATION

 

TO: BLAKE DAVIS, as heir of MARGUERITE JACKSON DAVIS; JAMES MCGEE and unknown heirs of JAMES MCGEE; PURNELLER MCGEE and unknown heirs of PURNELLER MCGEE; KATRINA DAVIS LEWIS and SHERAN DAVIS MITCHELL, as heirs of MARGUERITE JACKSON DAVIS; UNKNOWN HEIRS OF MARGUERITE JACKSON DAVIS; LOIS HALL; CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA) a/k/a CAPITAL ONE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; ALABAMA CREDIT UNION, as successor by merger to MILESTONE CREDIT UNION; J.T. SMALLWOOD, JEFFERSON COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR; JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA; CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA; and any and all other unknown heirs, claimants or interested parties claiming any right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the real estate described herein,

 

TAKE NOTICE that on December 17, 2025, the Birmingham Land Bank Authority filed the above-styled Complaint, and the Land Bank asserts that it has recorded notice of a pending quiet title and foreclosure action in the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Alabama concerning the rights and/or interests in the following real property:

 

 

 

Property Address: 3324 28th Avenue North, Birmingham, Alabama 35207

 

 

 

Tax Parcel ID No.: 01-22-00-13-4-032-008.000

 

 

 

Legal Description: Lot Eight (8), according to Lauderdale Survey, as recorded in Map Book 5 Page 118 in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Jefferson County, Alabama, situated in Jefferson County, Alabama (It appears said legal is the same as that certain legal described in Instrument No. 2018005177 as follows: LOT 8 LAUDERDALE)

 

 

 

ANY PERSON WITH A PROPERTY INTEREST IN THE ABOVE PROPERTY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THEY MAY LOSE SUCH INTEREST, IF ANY, AS A RESULT OF THE ABOVE-REFERENCED QUIET TITLE AND FORECLOSURE ACTION. The final hearing on this quiet title and foreclosure action is hereby set for April 13, 2026, in Room 360, Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama at 10:00 A.M. The judgment of the Court may result in title to the property vesting in the Birmingham Land Bank Authority. Any person who proves to the Court’s satisfaction a right to redeem the property pursuant to Alabama Code §§ 40-10-73 (1975) et seq. or Alabama Code §§ 40-10-83 (1975) et seq. may redeem the property pursuant to those statutes within five (5) days after the appropriate Order on Final Hearing is issued. FAILURE TO REDEEM THE PROPERTY AND PRESENT PROOF OF REDEMPTION TO THE CIRCUIT COURT WITHIN THE 5-DAY PERIOD MAY RESULT IN A LOSS OF THE RIGHT OF REDEMPTION.

 

 

 

The address of the Birmingham Land Bank Authority is City Hall, 710 North 20th St., Birmingham, AL 35203. The Birmingham Land Bank Authority may be contacted care of Cherokee W. Wooley, Law Offices of Thomas J. Skinner, IV, LLC, at (205) 802-2545.

 

 

 

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED by the undersigned Clerk of Court that publication of this notice be made once a week for three consecutive weeks in the Birmingham Times, a newspaper of general circulation in Jefferson County, Alabama, and that all persons to whom this notice is addressed and any and all persons claiming any title to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance on the above-described land or any part thereof are hereby directed to plead, answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint in this cause before the hearing date or a judgment by default may be rendered against them it being intended that this notice shall be used to perfect service against all parties who cannot be personally served with a copy of the Complaint.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CASE NO. CV-2025-905506.00

 

 

 

 

 

NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING BY PUBLICATION

 

TO: REGINALD RATTLER and MICHAEL ANTHONY RATTLER, as heirs of T.S. RATTLER AND JEAN RATTLER; UNKNOWN HEIRS OF T.S. RATTLER; UNKNOWN HEIRS OF JEAN RATTLER; J.T. SMALLWOOD, JEFFERSON COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR; JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA; CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA; and any and all other unknown heirs, claimants or interested parties claiming any right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the real estate described herein,

 

TAKE NOTICE that on December 17, 2025, the Birmingham Land Bank Authority filed the above-styled Complaint, and the Land Bank asserts that it has recorded notice of a pending quiet title and foreclosure action in the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Alabama concerning the rights and/or interests in the following real property:

 

 

 

Property Address: 4509 13th Avenue North, Birmingham, Alabama 35212

 

 

 

Tax Parcel ID No.: 01-23-00-20-1-012-012.000

 

 

 

Legal Description: Lot 7, Block 2, according to the survey of Meadowlawn, as recorded in Map Book 20, Page 44, in the Probate Office of Jefferson County, Alabama, situated in Jefferson County, Alabama (It appears said legal is the same as that certain legal described in Instrument No. 2023061336 as follows: LOT 7 BLK 2 MEADOWLAWN)

 

 

 

ANY PERSON WITH A PROPERTY INTEREST IN THE ABOVE PROPERTY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THEY MAY LOSE SUCH INTEREST, IF ANY, AS A RESULT OF THE ABOVE-REFERENCED QUIET TITLE AND FORECLOSURE ACTION. The final hearing on this quiet title and foreclosure action is hereby set for April 13, 2026, in Room 360, Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama at 10:00 A.M. The judgment of the Court may result in title to the property vesting in the Birmingham Land Bank Authority. Any person who proves to the Court’s satisfaction a right to redeem the property pursuant to Alabama Code §§ 40-10-73 (1975) et seq. or Alabama Code §§ 40-10-83 (1975) et seq. may redeem the property pursuant to those statutes within five (5) days after the appropriate Order on Final Hearing is issued. FAILURE TO REDEEM THE PROPERTY AND PRESENT PROOF OF REDEMPTION TO THE CIRCUIT COURT WITHIN THE 5-DAY PERIOD MAY RESULT IN A LOSS OF THE RIGHT OF REDEMPTION.

 

 

 

 

 

The address of the Birmingham Land Bank Authority is City Hall, 710 North 20th St., Birmingham, AL 35203. The Birmingham Land Bank Authority may be contacted care of Cherokee W. Wooley, Law Offices of Thomas J. Skinner, IV, LLC, at (205) 802-2545.

 

 

 

 

 

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED by the undersigned Clerk of Court that publication of this notice be made once a week for three consecutive weeks in the Birmingham Times, a newspaper of general circulation in Jefferson County, Alabama, and that all persons to whom this notice is addressed and any and all persons claiming any title to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance on the above-described land or any part thereof are hereby directed to plead, answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint in this cause before the hearing date or a judgment by default may be rendered against them it being intended that this notice shall be used to perfect service against all parties who cannot be personally served with a copy of the Complaint.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CASE NO. CV-2025-905501.00

 

 

 

 

 

NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING BY PUBLICATION

 

TO: JEFFERY MILLIGAN and unknown heirs of JEFFERY MILLIGAN; A.M.E. INVESTMENTS, LLC; FANNIE MAE a/k/a FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION; J.T. SMALLWOOD, JEFFERSON COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR; JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA; CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA; and any and all other unknown heirs, claimants or interested parties claiming any right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the real estate described herein,

 

 

 

TAKE NOTICE that on December 17, 2025, the Birmingham Land Bank Authority filed the above-styled Complaint, and the Land Bank asserts that it has recorded notice of a pending quiet title and foreclosure action in the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Alabama concerning the rights and/or interests in the following real property:

 

 

 

Property Address: 761 81st Place South, Birmingham, Alabama 35206

 

 

 

Tax Parcel ID No.: 01-23-00-11-4-029-015.000

 

 

 

Legal Description: Lots 13 and 14, in Block 42, according to the survey of South Highlands Addition to East Lake as recorded in Map Book 6, Pages 66 and 67, in the Probate Office of Jefferson County, Alabama, situated in Jefferson County, Alabama (It appears said legal is the same as that certain legal described in Instrument No. 2023061338 as follows: LOTS 13 & 14 BLK 42 SO HGLDS OF EAST LAKE)

 

 

 

ANY PERSON WITH A PROPERTY INTEREST IN THE ABOVE PROPERTY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THEY MAY LOSE SUCH INTEREST, IF ANY, AS A RESULT OF THE ABOVE-REFERENCED QUIET TITLE AND FORECLOSURE ACTION. The final hearing on this quiet title and foreclosure action is hereby set for April 1, 2026, in Room 340, Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama at 9:00 A.M. The judgment of the Court may result in title to the property vesting in the Birmingham Land Bank Authority. Any person who proves to the Court’s satisfaction a right to redeem the property pursuant to Alabama Code §§ 40-10-73 (1975) et seq. or Alabama Code §§ 40-10-83 (1975) et seq. may redeem the property pursuant to those statutes within five (5) days after the appropriate Order on Final Hearing is issued. FAILURE TO REDEEM THE PROPERTY AND PRESENT PROOF OF REDEMPTION TO THE CIRCUIT COURT WITHIN THE 5-DAY PERIOD MAY RESULT IN A LOSS OF THE RIGHT OF REDEMPTION.

 

 

 

The address of the Birmingham Land Bank Authority is City Hall, 710 North 20th St., Birmingham, AL 35203. The Birmingham Land Bank Authority may be contacted care of Cherokee W. Wooley, Law Offices of Thomas J. Skinner, IV, LLC, at (205) 802-2545.

 

 

 

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED by the undersigned Clerk of Court that publication of this notice be made once a week for three consecutive weeks in the Birmingham Times, a newspaper of general circulation in Jefferson County, Alabama, and that all persons to whom this notice is addressed and any and all persons claiming any title to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance on the above-described land or any part thereof are hereby directed to plead, answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint in this cause before the hearing date or a judgment by default may be rendered against them it being intended that this notice shall be used to perfect service against all parties who cannot be personally served with a copy of the Complaint.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CASE NO. CV-2025-905505.00

 

 

 

 

 

NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING BY PUBLICATION

 

TO: FREDERICK EDWARD MCDUFFIE; TERRIYOKA N. MCDUFFIE; LAKAI T. LOTHER; UNKNOWN HEIRS OF BERNICE LOTHER; J.T. SMALLWOOD, JEFFERSON COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR; JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA; CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA; and any and all other unknown heirs, claimants or interested parties claiming any right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the real estate described herein,

 

 

 

TAKE NOTICE that on December 17, 2025, the Birmingham Land Bank Authority filed the above-styled Complaint, and the Land Bank asserts that it has recorded notice of a pending quiet title and foreclosure action in the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Alabama concerning the rights and/or interests in the following real property:

 

 

 

Property Address: 632 64th Place South, Birmingham, Alabama 35212

 

Tax Parcel ID No.: 01-23-00-22-3-023-010.000

 

 

 

Legal Description: Lot 21, according to the map of Jackson & Dinkins Addition to Woodlawn, as recorded in Map Book 9, Page 25, in the Probate Office of Jefferson County, Alabama, situated in Jefferson County, Alabama (It appears said legal is the same as that certain legal described in Instrument No. 2017011060 as follows: LOT 21 JACKSON & DINKINS ADD TO WOODLAWN)

 

 

 

ANY PERSON WITH A PROPERTY INTEREST IN THE ABOVE PROPERTY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THEY MAY LOSE SUCH INTEREST, IF ANY, AS A RESULT OF THE ABOVE-REFERENCED QUIET TITLE AND FORECLOSURE ACTION. The final hearing on this quiet title and foreclosure action is hereby set for April 1, 2026, in Room 340, Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama at 9:00 A.M. The judgment of the Court may result in title to the property vesting in the Birmingham Land Bank Authority. Any person who proves to the Court’s satisfaction a right to redeem the property pursuant to Alabama Code §§ 40-10-73 (1975) et seq. or Alabama Code §§ 40-10-83 (1975) et seq. may redeem the property pursuant to those statutes within five (5) days after the appropriate Order on Final Hearing is issued. FAILURE TO REDEEM THE PROPERTY AND PRESENT PROOF OF REDEMPTION TO THE CIRCUIT COURT WITHIN THE 5-DAY PERIOD MAY RESULT IN A LOSS OF THE RIGHT OF REDEMPTION.

 

 

 

The address of the Birmingham Land Bank Authority is City Hall, 710 North 20th St., Birmingham, AL 35203. The Birmingham Land Bank Authority may be contacted care of Cherokee W. Wooley, Law Offices of Thomas J. Skinner, IV, LLC, at (205) 802-2545.

 

 

 

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED by the undersigned Clerk of Court that publication of this notice be made once a week for three consecutive weeks in the Birmingham Times, a newspaper of general circulation in Jefferson County, Alabama, and that all persons to whom this notice is addressed and any and all persons claiming any title to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance on the above-described land or any part thereof are hereby directed to plead, answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint in this cause before the hearing date or a judgment by default may be rendered against them it being intended that this notice shall be used to perfect service against all parties who cannot be personally served with a copy of the Complaint.

 

 

 

 

 

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CASE NO. CV-2025-905675

 

 

 

NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING BY PUBLICATION

 

TO: COMMUNITY HOMEBANC, INC., MORTGAGE INVESTORS, INC., SIDNEY BACKER AND HER HEIRS AND DEVISEES, IF DECEASED, MID-OHIO SECURITIES CORP./ CUST FBOSSHELTON CHAFFER/IRA. THOMAS E. BADDLEY JR, RECEIVER, J.T. SMALLWOOD, JEFFERSON COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR; JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA; CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA; and any and all other unknown heirs, claimants or interested parties claiming any right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the real estate described herein,

 

The Birmingham Land Bank Authority (the “Land Bank”), a public corporation organized under the laws of the State of Alabama, filed a Petition to Quiet Title and Foreclosure (the “Petition”) on the property described herein on December 31, 2025, in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County and recorded a Notice of Pending Quiet Title and Foreclosure Action on January 27, 2026 (the “Lis Pendens”) in the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Alabama. Notice is hereby given that a final hearing was set to be heard on March 19, 2026 at 9:00 A.M. at the Jefferson County Courthouse, Courtroom 340, 716 Richard Arrington, Jr. Boulevard, North, Birmingham, Alabama 35203. The property that is the subject of this hearing is described as follows:

 

 

 

Property Address: 1700 2nd Street South Birmingham, Alabama 35205

 

 

 

Tax Parcel ID No.: 29-00-11-2-010-025.000 a/k/a 0129001120100250000000

 

 

 

Legal Description: Lot 28, Block 5, according to First Addition to Green Springs, as recorded in Map Book 15, Page 46, in the Probate Office of Jefferson County, Alabama a/k/a LOT 28 BLK 5 GREEN SPRINGS 1st ADD.

 

 

 

ANY PERSON WITH A PROPERTY INTEREST IN THE ABOVE PROPERTY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THEY MAY LOSE SUCH INTEREST, IF ANY, AS A RESULT OF THE ABOVE-REFERENCED QUIET TITLE AND FORECLOSURE ACTION. The judgment of the Court may result in title to the property vesting in the Birmingham Land Bank Authority. Any person who proves to the Court’s satisfaction a right to redeem the property pursuant to Alabama Code 1975 §§ 40-10- 3, et seq. may redeem the property pursuant to those statutes within five (5) days after the appropriate Order on Final Hearing is issued. FAILURE TO REDEEM THE PROPERTY AND PRESENT PROOF OF REDEMPTION TO THE CIRCUIT COURT WITHIN THE FIVE-DAY PERIOD MAY RESULT IN A LOSS OF THE RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. The address of the Birmingham Land Bank Authority is City Hall, 710 20th Street North, Birmingham, Alabama 35203 and may be contacted care of the City of Birmingham Law Department at 205-254-2117.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CASE NO. CV-2025-905678

 

 

 

NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING BY PUBLICATION

 

TO: J. RAMON SENDEJAS MANRIQEZ AND HIS HEIRS AND DEVISEES, IF DECEASED, ELISEO SENDEJAS GARCIA AND HIS HEIRS AND DEVISEES, IF DECEASED, J.T. SMALLWOOD, JEFFERSON COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR; JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA; CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA; and any and all other unknown heirs, claimants or interested parties claiming any right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the real estate described herein,

 

The Birmingham Land Bank Authority (the “Land Bank”), a public corporation organized under the laws of the State of Alabama, filed a Petition to Quiet Title and Foreclosure (the “Petition”) on the property described herein on December 31, 2025, in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County and recorded a Notice of Pending Quiet Title and Foreclosure Action on January 27, 2026 (the “Lis Pendens”) in the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Alabama. Notice is hereby given that a final hearing was set to be heard on March 19, 2026 at 9:00 A.M. at the Jefferson County Courthouse, Courtroom 340, 716 Richard Arrington, Jr. Boulevard, North, Birmingham, Alabama 35203. The property that is the subject of this hearing is described as follows:

 

 

 

Property Address: 8327 4th Avenue South, Birmingham, Alabama 35206

 

 

 

Tax Parcel ID No.: 23-00-11-4-009-001.000 a/k/a 0123001140090010000000

 

 

 

Legal Description: Lot 15, Block 156, according to the map of East Lake, as recorded in Map Book 1, Page 217, in the Probate Office of Jefferson County, Alabama a/k/a LOT 15 BLK 156 EAST LAKE.

 

 

 

ANY PERSON WITH A PROPERTY INTEREST IN THE ABOVE PROPERTY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THEY MAY LOSE SUCH INTEREST, IF ANY, AS A RESULT OF THE ABOVE-REFERENCED QUIET TITLE AND FORECLOSURE ACTION. The judgment of the Court may result intitle to the property vesting in the Birmingham Land Bank Authority. Any person who proves to the Court’s satisfaction a right to redeem the property pursuant to Alabama Code 1975 §§ 40-10- 3, et seq. may redeem the property pursuant to those statutes within five (5) days after the appropriate Order on Final Hearing is issued. FAILURE TO REDEEM THE PROPERTY AND PRESENT PROOF OF REDEMPTION TO THE CIRCUIT COURT WITHIN THE FIVE-DAY PERIOD MAY RESULT IN A LOSS OF THE RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. The address of the Birmingham Land Bank Authority is City Hall, 710 20th Street North, Birmingham, Alabama 35203 and may be contacted care of the City of Birmingham Law Department at 205-254-2117.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BT2/12/2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CASE NO. CV-2025-905677

 

 

 

NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING BY PUBLICATION

 

TO: WESLEY NIXON (DECEASED) AND HIS HEIRS AND DEVISEES, N.JUDGE KING AND HIS HEIR AND DEVISEES, IF DECEASED, J.T. SMALLWOOD, JEFFERSON COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR; JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA; CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA; and any and all other unknown heirs, claimants or interested parties claiming any right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the real estate described herein,

 

The Birmingham Land Bank Authority (the “Land Bank”), a public corporation organized under the laws of the State of Alabama, filed a Petition to Quiet Title and Foreclosure (the “Petition”) on the property described herein on December 31, 2025, in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County and recorded a Notice of Pending Quiet Title and Foreclosure Action on February 5, 2026 (the “Lis Pendens”) in the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Alabama. Notice is hereby given that a final hearing was set to be heard on March 12, 2026 at 10:00 A.M. at the Jefferson County Courthouse, Courtroom 340, 716 Richard Arrington, Jr. Boulevard, North, Birmingham, Alabama 35203. The property that is the subject of this hearing is described as follows:

 

 

 

Property Address: 1704 2nd Street South, Birmingham, Alabama 35205

 

 

 

Tax Parcel ID No.: 29-00-11-2-010-024.000 a/k/a 0129001120100240000000

 

 

 

Legal Description: Lot 27, Block 5, according to First Addition to Green Springs, as recorded in Map Book 15, Page 46, in the Probate Office of Jefferson County, Alabama a/k/a LOT 27 BLK 5 GREEN SPRINGS.

 

 

 

ANY PERSON WITH A PROPERTY INTEREST IN THE ABOVE PROPERTY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THEY MAY LOSE SUCH INTEREST, IF ANY, AS A RESULT OF THE ABOVE-REFERENCED QUIET TITLE AND FORECLOSURE ACTION. The judgment of the Court may result intitle to the property vesting in the Birmingham Land Bank Authority. Any person who proves to the Court’s satisfaction a right to redeem the property pursuant to Alabama Code 1975 §§ 40-10- 3, et seq. may redeem the property pursuant to those statutes within five (5) days after the appropriate Order on Final Hearing is issued. FAILURE TO REDEEM THE PROPERTY AND PRESENT PROOF OF REDEMPTION TO THE CIRCUIT COURT WITHIN THE FIVE-DAY PERIOD MAY RESULT IN A LOSS OF THE RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. The address of the Birmingham Land Bank Authority is City Hall, 710 20th Street North, Birmingham, Alabama 35203 and may be contacted care of the City of Birmingham Law Department at 205-254-2117.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BT2/12/2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CASE NO. CV-2025-905677

 

 

 

NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING BY PUBLICATION

 

TO: WESLEY NIXON (DECEASED) AND HIS HEIRS AND DEVISEES, N.JUDGE KING AND HIS HEIR AND DEVISEES, IF DECEASED, J.T. SMALLWOOD, JEFFERSON COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR; JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA; CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA; and any and all other unknown heirs, claimants or interested parties claiming any right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the real estate described herein,

 

The Birmingham Land Bank Authority (the “Land Bank”), a public corporation organized under the laws of the State of Alabama, filed a Petition to Quiet Title and Foreclosure (the “Petition”) on the property described herein on December 31, 2025, in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County and recorded a Notice of Pending Quiet Title and Foreclosure Action on February 5, 2026 (the “Lis Pendens”) in the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Alabama. Notice is hereby given that a final hearing was set to be heard on March 12, 2026 at 10:00 A.M. at the Jefferson County Courthouse, Courtroom 340, 716 Richard Arrington, Jr. Boulevard, North, Birmingham, Alabama 35203. The property that is the subject of this hearing is described as follows:

 

 

 

Property Address: 1704 2nd Street South, Birmingham, Alabama 35205

 

 

 

Tax Parcel ID No.: 29-00-11-2-010-024.000 a/k/a 0129001120100240000000

 

 

 

Legal Description: Lot 27, Block 5, according to First Addition to Green Springs, as recorded in Map Book 15, Page 46, in the Probate Office of Jefferson County, Alabama a/k/a LOT 27 BLK 5 GREEN SPRINGS.

 

 

 

ANY PERSON WITH A PROPERTY INTEREST IN THE ABOVE PROPERTY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THEY MAY LOSE SUCH INTEREST, IF ANY, AS A RESULT OF THE ABOVE-REFERENCED QUIET TITLE AND FORECLOSURE ACTION. The judgment of the Court may result intitle to the property vesting in the Birmingham Land Bank Authority. Any person who proves to the Court’s satisfaction a right to redeem the property pursuant to Alabama Code 1975 §§ 40-10- 3, et seq. may redeem the property pursuant to those statutes within five (5) days after the appropriate Order on Final Hearing is issued. FAILURE TO REDEEM THE PROPERTY AND PRESENT PROOF OF REDEMPTION TO THE CIRCUIT COURT WITHIN THE FIVE-DAY PERIOD MAY RESULT IN A LOSS OF THE RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. The address of the Birmingham Land Bank Authority is City Hall, 710 20th Street North, Birmingham, Alabama 35203 and may be contacted care of the City of Birmingham Law Department at 205-254-2117.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BT2/12/2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CASE NO. CV-2025-900041

 

 

 

NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING BY PUBLICATION

 

TO: JUDITH. ANDREW AND HER HEIRS AND DEVISEES, IF DECEASED, GABRIEL MARTIN AND HIS HEIRS AND DEVISEES, IF DECEASED, MURRAY BINDERMAN INDIVIDUALLY AND AS TRUSTEE OF THE 1620-33 TRUST AND HIS HEIRS AND DEVISEES, IF DECEASED WEBB-BARRY ORGANIZATION, LLC., J.T. SMALLWOOD, JEFFERSON COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR; JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA; CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA; and any and all other unknown heirs, claimants or interested parties claiming any right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the real estate described herein,

 

The Birmingham Land Bank Authority (the “Land Bank”), a public corporation organized under the laws of the State of Alabama, filed a Petition to Quiet Title and Foreclosure (the “Petition”) on the property described herein on January 6, 2025, in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County and recorded a Notice of Pending Quiet Title and Foreclosure Action on February 5, 2026 (the “Lis Pendens”) in the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Alabama. Notice is hereby given that a final hearing was set to be heard on April 13, 2026 at 10:00 A.M. at the Jefferson County Courthouse, Courtroom 340, 716 Richard Arrington, Jr. Boulevard, North, Birmingham, Alabama 35203. The property that is the subject of this hearing is described as follows:

 

 

 

Property Address: 1620 33rd Street, Birmingham, Alabama 35208

 

 

 

Tax Parcel ID No.: 29-00-06-4-014-018.000 a/k/a 012900064014018000

 

 

 

Legal Description: Lot 18, Block 16, according to Survey of Birmingham-Easley, as recorded in Map Book 1, Page 209, in the Probate Office of Jefferson County, Alabama a/k/a LOT 18 BLK 16 BHAM-ENSLEY.

 

 

 

ANY PERSON WITH A PROPERTY INTEREST IN THE ABOVE PROPERTY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THEY MAY LOSE SUCH INTEREST, IF ANY, AS A RESULT OF THE ABOVE-REFERENCED QUIET TITLE AND FORECLOSURE ACTION. The judgment of the Court may result intitle to the property vesting in the Birmingham Land Bank Authority. Any person who proves to the Court’s satisfaction a right to redeem the property pursuant to Alabama Code 1975 §§ 40-10- 3, et seq. may redeem the property pursuant to those statutes within five (5) days after the appropriate Order on Final Hearing is issued. FAILURE TO REDEEM THE PROPERTY AND PRESENT PROOF OF REDEMPTION TO THE CIRCUIT COURT WITHIN THE FIVE-DAY PERIOD MAY RESULT IN A LOSS OF THE RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. The address of the Birmingham Land Bank Authority is City Hall, 710 20th Street North, Birmingham, Alabama 35203 and may be contacted care of the City of Birmingham Law Department at 205-254-2117.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BT2/12/2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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FORM OF ADVERTISEMENT FOR COMPLETION LEGAL NOTICE

 

In accordance with Chapter 1, Title 39, Code of Alabama, 1975, notice is hereby given that

 

 

 

Contractor, has completed the Contract for (Construction) (Renovation) (Alteration) (Equipment)

 
(Improvement) of (Name of Project)

 

 

 

Columbiana Drainage Improvements

 

 

 

Columbiana

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

for the State of Alabama and the. City

 

have made request for final settlement of said Contract. All persons having any claim for labor, materials, or otherwise in connection with this project should immediately notify

 

 

 

(Architect)

 

 

 

Southeastern Sealcoating (Contractor)

 

 

 

1330 Adamsville Industrial Parkway

 

 (Business Address)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BT2/12/2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ADVERTISEMENT FOR COMPLETION

 

 

 

In accordance with Chapter 1, Title 39, Code of Alabama, 1975, as amended, is hereby given that A.G. Gaston Construction Co, Inc.1820 3rd Ave N Ste 400 Birmingham, AL35203 has completed the contract for 240589 UAB 1715 Building Demolition & Site Restoration at 1715 11th Ave S Birmingham, AL35233 with the completion date of December 3, 2025 for The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Owner, and has made request for final settlement of said contract. All persons having any claim for labor, materials, or otherwise in connection with the project should immediately notify the Architect / Engineer: SSOE, Inc 2204 Lakeshore Dr. #110 Birmingham, AL35209

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BT2/12/2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PROJECT NO. 24-02

 

 

 

In accordance with Chapter 1, Title 39, Code of Alabama, 1975, notice is hereby given that J.D. Morris Construction, general contractor, has completed the Contract for Porch Additions 2025 for the Tarrant Housing Authority, Tarrant, Alabama, and have made request for final settlement of said contract. All persons having any claim for labor, materials, or otherwise in connection with this project should immediately notify the Architect and/or Authority in writing at Evans Architectural Design, 1823 27th Avenue South, Homewood, Alabama 35209, or Tarrant Housing Authority, 624 Bell Ave Birmingham, Alabama 35217.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BT2/12/2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Notice of Completion

 

 

 

In accordance with Chapter 1, Title 39, Code of Alabama, 1975, notice is hereby given that Revere Control Systems has completed the CANE CREEK BOOSTER PUMPING STATION PLC UPGRADE, located in Jefferson County Alabama. Revere Control Systems has made request for final settlement of said contract and all people who have any claim for labor, material or otherwise in connection with the project should immediately notify Central Alabama Water.

 

 

 

 

 

BT2/12/2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ADVERTISEMENT OF COMPLETION

 

 

 

In accordance with Chapter 1, Title 39, Code of Alabama, 1975, notice is hereby given that P & M Mechanical, Inc., Contractor, has completed the UAB Security Operations Center Fit-Out, UAB Project #H2350237, for the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama on behalf of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Owner, located at 1802 6th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35233, and have made request for final settlement of said Contract. All persons having any claim for labor, materials, or otherwise, in connection with this project, should immediately contact Ghafari Associates 2170 Highlands Avenue, Suite 220, Birmingham, AL 35205

 

 

 

P & M Mechanical, Inc.

 

325 Carson Road North

 

Birmingham, AL35215

 

 

 

 

 

BT2/12/2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ADVERTISEMENT OF COMPLETION

 

 

 

In accordance with Chapter 1, Title 39, Code of Alabama, 1975, notice is hereby given that Southeastern Sealcoating, Inc, Contractor, has completed the Contract for Construction of PELHAM GREENWAY TRAIL SURFACING, for the City of Pelham, Owner(s), and have made request for final settlement of said Contract. All persons having any claim for labor, materials, or otherwise, in connection with this project, should immediately contact Southeastern Sealcoating Inc, 1330 Adamsville Industrial Parkway, Birmingham, AL 35224.

 

 

 

 

 

Southeastern Sealcoating, Inc

 

1330 Adamsville Industrial Parkway

 

Birmingham, AL35224

 

 

 

 

 

BT2/12/2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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FORM OF ADVERTISEMENT FOR COMPLETION

 

 

 

LEGAL NOTICE

 

 

 

 

 

In accordance with Chapter 1, Title 39, Code of Alabama, 1975, notice is hereby given

 

that Williford Orman Construction LLC, Contractor, has completed the Contract for Construction of New Baseball Field Restrooms for St. Clair County High School at St. Clair for the State of Alabama and the County of St. Clair, Owner(s), and have made request for final settlement of said Contract. All persons having any claim for labor, materials, or otherwise in connection with this project should immediately notify Lathan Associates Architects PC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Williford Orman Construction LLC

 

(Contractor)

 

 

 

 

 

______PO Box 1985, Pelham, AL 35124

 

(Business Address)

 

 

 

BT2/12/2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rickwood Field Accessibility Improvements Project Manual Project. Number. 2470

 

SECTION 006519 ADVERTISEMENT FOR COMPLETION

 

 

 

LEGAL NOTICE

 

 

 

 

 

IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALABAMA CODE SECTION 39-1-1 AS AMENDED BY ACT #2023-497 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A.G. Gaston Construction Co., Inc. CONTRACTOR(S) HAVE COMPLETED The Rickwood Field Accessibility Improvements Project FOR THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM AND HAVE MADE REQUEST FOR FINAL SETTLEMENT OF SAID CONTRACT CONTRACTOR A.G. Gaston Construction Co., Inc. BUSINESS ADDRESS 1820 3rd Avenue N, Suite 400 Birmingham, AL 35203

 

 

 

BT2/12/2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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NOTICE TO BIDDERS

 

 

 

Sealed Bid Proposals will be received by the Environmental Services Department, Jefferson County, Alabama, online at QuestCDN (eBidDoc #10013001), until 2:00 P.M. local time on Wednesday, MARCH 11, 2026, and then publicly opened and read via virtual video conference using Microsoft Teams for the SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM – ASSET MANAGEMENT PROGRAM – CONTRACT NO. 2023 PS04 – RIVERCHASE PUMP STATION UPGRADES. Microsoft Teams can be accessed using a direct invitation link sent via email (request this link from Tad Powell, Hazen, and Sawyer, at email tpowell@hazenandsawyer.com).

 

 

 

The scope of work includes selected demolition, rehabilitation of the main Riverchase wet well and pump station, rehabilitation of the existing bypass wet well, provision and installation of a natural gas driven dri-prime bypass pump, rehabilitation of the 3 main sewage pumps, complete electrical renovation, Cahaba WRF force main flow meters, vaults, panels, piping, valves, fencing, and other required upgrades as specified herein and on the accompanying project drawings.

 

 

 

Bidding Documents are on file for inspection, by appointment only, at the following location:

 

 

 

Jefferson County Environmental Services Department

 

716 Richard Arrington Jr. Boulevard North, Suite A-300

 

Birmingham, Alabama 35203

 

Contact for Appointment: Colyn Bradley at (205) 325-5123

 

 

 

Complete sets of electronic Bidding Documents (Specifications and Drawings) are available at https://www.jeffcoes.org (navigate to “BIDS/CONTRACTS” to “NOTICE TO BIDDERS” to “Asset Management Program – Project Bid Information” for a listing of projects. Prior to downloading the Bidding Documents, Bidders will be required to set up a QuestCDN.com account and pay a $64.00 fee ($22.00 fee for download only).Hard copies of the Bidding Documents are the responsibility of the Bidders. Contact QuestCDN at 952-233-1632 or info@questcdn.com for assistance with navigating the website and digital project information.

 

 

 

Bids will only be accepted from pre-qualified contractors who are listed on the Plan Holders List, signifying that they have purchased a set of documents from the Engineer, and who attend the MANDATORY Pre-Bid Conference.

 

 

 

NO BID PROPOSAL SHALL BE ACCEPTED AFTER THE TIME STATED FOR RECEIVING BID PROPOSALS IN THIS NOTICE. A FORM CONTAINING THE CONTRACTOR’S NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE FIRM AND THE CONTRACTOR’S ALABAMA LICENSE NUMBER WITH THE DATE OF EXPIRATION IS REQUIRED WITH THE SUBMISSION OF THE BID. THESE REQUIREMENTS SHALL NOT BE WAIVED.

 

 

 

The Contractor is hereby advised that TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE on this project. The Contract Time for this project is six hundred and thirty-five (635) consecutive calendar days. The first 270 days will be an administrative period followed by a 365-day construction period from the effective date of the written Notice to Proceed to achieve Final Acceptance. If mutually agreed upon between the Owner and Contractor, the construction period may commence prior to the end of the administrative period. Upon such agreement, the contract end date will be modified based on the date of termination of the administrative period. Liquidated damages will be assessed if this time limit is exceeded. The Contractor may apply for an extension of time in accordance with the provisions of the Contract; however, such an extension must be approved prior to the Contract Completion Date to avoid the imposition of liquidated damages.

 

 

 

The Contractor is hereby advised that a Pre-Bid Conference will be held via a virtual video conference on Wednesday, FEBRUARY 25, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. This Pre-Bid Conference is MANDATORY for all contractors planning to submit a Bid Proposal on this project. The conference call will be held using Microsoft Teams and can be accessed using a direct invitation link sent via email (request this link from Tad Powell, Hazen, and Sawyer, at email tpowell@hazenandsawyer.com). If you are unable to join the call due to technical difficulties, call Tad Powell (Hazen and Sawyer) at 205-957-4151 or Colyn Bradley (Jefferson County) at (205) 325-5123 for assistance.

 

 

 

Questions concerning meaning or intent of Bidding Documents shall be submitted to Tad Powell, PE, Senior Associate, Hazen and Sawyer, at email tpowell@hazenandsawyer.comno later than 5:00 p.m. local time on March 4, 2026.All questions must be in writing on Bidder’s company’s letterhead or email.

 

 

 

THE ATTENTION OF ALL BIDDERS IS CALLED TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE STATE LAW GOVERNING GENERAL CONTRACTORS, AS SET FORTH IN ALABAMA CODE SECTIONS 34-8-1 THROUGH SECTION 34-8-28 (1975), AS AMENDED, CHAPTER 4, SECTION 65 TO 82 (INCLUSIVE) OF TITLE 46 OF THE CODE OF ALABAMA OF 1940, AS AMENDED; AND BIDDERS SHALL BE GOVERNED BY SAID LAW INSOFAR AS IT IS APPLICABLE. THE ABOVE-MENTIONED PROVISIONS OF THE CODE MAKE IT ILLEGAL FOR THE OWNER TO CONSIDER A BID PROPOSAL FROM ANYONE WHO IS NOT PROPERLY LICENSED UNDER SUCH CODE PROVISIONS.

 

 

 

THE ATTENTION OF BIDDERS IS CALLED TO THE PROVISIONS OF ALABAMA CODE SECTION 39-2-14 (1975) AS AMENDED, REQUIRING A NONRESIDENT CONTRACTOR TO REGISTER WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE PRIOR TO ENGAGING IN THE PERFORMANCE OF A CONTRACT IN THE STATE OF ALABAMA.

 

THE ATTENTION OF BIDDERS IS CALLED TO THE PROVISIONS OF ALABAMA CODE SECTION 39-3-5 (1975) AS AMENDED, REGARDING PREFERENCE TO RESIDENT CONTRACTORS.

 

THE ATTENTION OF BIDDERS IS CALLED TO THE PROVISIONS OF ALABAMA ACT 2016-312 AS AMENDED, REGARDING NOT ENGAGING IN THE BOYCOTT OF A PERSON OR ENTITY BASED IN OR DOING BUSINESS WITH A JURISDICTION WITH WHICH THIS STATE ENJOYS OPEN TRADE.

 

THE ATTENTION OF THE BIDDERS IS CALLED TO THE PROVISIONS OF ALABAMA CODE SECTION 41-16-161 AS AMENDED, REGARDING NOT ENGAGING IN ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS.

 

THIS PROJECT IS CLASSIFIED AS A CLASS “D” PUMPING STATION PROJECT. ALL PROSPECTIVE BIDDERS MUST BE PRE-QUALIFIED WITH THE JEFFERSON COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT TO BID CLASS “D” PUMPING STATION PROJECTS. TO PRE-QUALIFY WITH THE DEPARTMENT AND TO CONSTRUCT CLASS “D” PUMPING STATION PROJECTS, EACH PROSPECTIVE BIDDER MUST FURNISH WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF COMPETENCY AND EVIDENCE OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY TO THE COUNTY.

 

 

 

ACCORDINGLY, THE COUNTY WILL NOT ACCEPT PRE-QUALIFICATION APPLICATIONS AFTER FEBRUARY 20, 2026. BID PROPOSAL FORMS WILL NOT BE ISSUED TO PROSPECTIVE BIDDERS WHO DO NOT PRE-QUALIFY.

 

 

 

CONTRACTORS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CONTACT THE JEFFERSON COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT, 716 RICHARD ARRINGTON JR. BOULEVARD NORTH, SUITE A300, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, (205) 325-5496 IN ADVANCE OF THE DEADLINE TO DETERMINE IF THE CONTRACTOR IS PRE-QUALIFIED TO CONSTRUCT CLASS “D” PUMPING STATION PROJECTS, OR FOR OTHER INFORMATION REGARDING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR PRE-QUALIFICATION.

 

 

 

 

 

BY:

 

David Denard

 

Director of Environmental Services

 

Jefferson County, Alabama

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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INVITATION FOR BIDS

 

 

 

The Jefferson County Commission will receive bids for the Birmingport Storm Shelter at Room A-420 meeting room of the Jefferson County Courthouse until 10:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

 

 

 

Any bid to be delivered by hand or mail prior to the above time or at a different place shall be at full risk of the bidder. Such bids may be delivered or mailed to the Jefferson County Department of Community Services, at 716 Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd N, Suite A-430, Birmingham, Alabama 35203. If for any reason such bid does not reach Room A-420 meeting room of the Jefferson County Courthouse prior to the opening, it may be rejected. No bids shall be accepted after the time stated for receipt of bids. This requirement shall not be waived.

 

 

 

All bids must be submitted on bid forms furnished, or copy thereof, and must be in a sealed envelope. The outside of the envelope should contain the following:

 

(1) “SEALED BID”; (2) “DO NOT OPEN”; (3) PROJECT NAME AND NUMBER; (4) PROJECT OFFICER: “Alfonso Holt”; (5) CONTRACTOR’S NAME AND ADDRESS; (6) ALABAMA GENERAL CONTRACTORS LICENSE NUMBER (7) DUNS #.

 

 

 

Bids are invited upon the following work, but not limited to, as follows: Provide a Prefabricated Storm Shelter, Site Work, Drainage, and Parking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bids must be accompanied by a certified check or bank draft payable to the order of Jefferson County, Alabama negotiable U.S. Government Bonds (at par value) or a satisfactory Bid Bond executed by the bidder and an acceptable surety, in the amount equal to five percent (5%) of the total of the bid amount but not to exceed $10,000.00, for the construction of Birmingport Storm Shelter

 

 

 

The bid security is to become the property of the owner in the event that: (1) the bidder fails to meet any of the qualifications required in the bid specifications stated herein; (2) the bidder misrepresents or falsifies any information required to be provided by the owner; (3) for any reason that the bidder fails to qualify, causing his bid to be withdrawn or rejected and such withdrawal or rejection results in delay or substantial additional expense to the owner; (4) the contract and bond are not executed within the time set forth, as liquidated damages for the delay and additional expense of the owner caused thereby.

 

 

 

Bid documents are on file and will be available for examination at the JEFFERSON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY SERVICES, 716 Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd N, Suite A-430, Birmingham, Alabama 35203; at the BIRMINGHAM CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AUTHORITY, 601 37th Avenue South, Birmingham, Alabama 35222; at the Office of Sentell Engineering.

 

 

 

General Contractor Bidders may obtain two (2) sets of hard copy drawings for each project and specifications from the Engineer Contact Donna Shelton at(205)752-5564. General Contractors will then be placed on Official Bidders List. The sets in the amount of $_65.78 per set made payable to Tuscaloosa Blueprint. Additional sets of drawings/ specifications and digital copies will be available to General Contractors for purchase directly from the Tuscaloosa Blueprint. Addenda and other proposal information will be issued only to holders of drawings and specifications distributed by Sentell Engineering and on the Official Bidders List. Release of contract documents to the bidder does not imply acceptance of the bidder’s qualifications by the Owner or Engineer.

 

 

 

General Contractors who obtain drawings and wish to withdraw from the Bidders List must do so in writing to the office of the Engineer prior to bid date, otherwise deposit will be forfeited. Deposit will be refunded in full on sets issued to each General Contractor Bidder submitting a Bonafide bid, upon the return of documents in good, reusable condition within ten (10) days after receipt of proposals.

 

 

 

Bids received from General Contractors who are not on the Official Bidders List may not be accepted or opened. Sentell Engineering makes no guarantee for plans and specifications obtained by Contractors and Vendors from sources other than the printed contract documents provided by their firm. Contractors and Vendors who base their pricing from contract documents obtained from other electronic sources, either in part or whole, do so at their own risk.

 

 

 

Bids must be submitted on proposal forms furnished by the Engineer or copies thereof, issued either with the original contract documents or by addendum. General Contractors shall not use Proposal Forms other than those provided in the contract documents.

 

 

 

All bidders bidding in amounts exceeding that established by the State Licensing Board for General Contractors must be licensed under the provisions of Title 34, Chapter 8, Code of Alabama, 1975. The Bidder must display current General Contractor’s License Number on the outside of the sealed envelope in which the proposal is delivered, or it will not be considered by the Engineer or Owner. The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all proposals and to waive technical errors if, in the Owner’s judgment, the best interests of the Owner will thereby be promoted.

 

 

 

Bidders are advised that submitted bids bind the bidders to the “Bid Conditions Setting Forth Affirmative Action Requirements for all Non‑Exempt Federal and Federally‑assisted Construction Contracts to be awarded in Jefferson, Shelby and Walker Counties, Alabama, “also known as the Birmingham Hometown Plan.

 

 

 

Attention is called to the fact that not less than the minimum salaries and wages as set forth in the contract documents must be paid on this project, and that the contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

 

 

 

All bidders be advised that this contract is subject to Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development act of 1968, as amended, (12 USC l701U) which if it is in excess of $100,000, requires that to the “greatest extent feasible”, opportunities for training and employment be given lower income residents of the project area and contracts for work in connection with the project be awarded to business concerns which are: (1) 51 percent or more owned by section 3 residents; or (2) Whose permanent, full-time employees include persons, at least 30 percent of whom are currently section 3 residents, or within three years of the date of first employment with the business concern were section 3 residents; or (3) That provides evidence of commitment to subcontract in excess of 25 percent of the dollar award of all subcontracts to be awarded to business concerns that meet the qualifications set forth in paragraphs (1) or (2) in this definition of “section 3 business concern.”

 

 

 

The Jefferson County Commission reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive any informalities in the bidding.

 

 

 

This project will be funded in its entirety (100%) with Jefferson County General Funds.

 

No Bid may be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days from the date of the opening of bids to allow the Jefferson County Commission to review the bids and investigate the qualifications of bidders prior to awarding the contract.

 

 

 

 

 

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ADVERTISEMENT for BIDDER PRE-QUALIFICATION And NOTICE of INTENT to RECEIVE BIDS

 

from PREQUALIFIED BIDDERS

 

 

 

Pre-qualification submittals will be received by the architect SSOE, Inc., at 2204 Lakeshore Dr #110, Birmingham, AL 35209 (Tel. Tel. 205- 323-2373) on Friday, February 6, 2026 before 10:00AM by Andrea Simpson, Project Manager (asimpson@ssoe.com), after which time no further requests will be considered. One paper copy, one pdf on a flash drive, and one pdf by email are required for pre-qualification approval. Pre-qualification Requirements Information Package may be obtained from the Architect upon letterhead or email request to asimpson@ssoe.com.

 

 

 

JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMISSION

 

JEFFERSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE ROOF TERRACE RESTORATION

 

 

 

A.GENERAL SCOPE OF WORK:

 

The project will be done in a single phase. The scope of work is a multi-faceted project that encompasses the demolition, excavation and installation of new waterproofing on the lower level of the courthouse (located below the roof terrace-Linn Park side); the full renovation of the roof terrace, planters, and planting beds; the renovation of existing planters at the courthouse annex Linn Park side entry and outdoor lounges on the existing courthouse roof level; the full renovation of the Richard Arrington (Main Courthouse Entry) stairs, terrace and superstructure; demolition and renovation of the courthouse wings below grade waterproofing on the Richard Arrington side of the courthouse. The location of the project is the Jefferson County Courthouse, 716 Richard Arrington Jr Blvd N, Birmingham, AL 35203.

 

 

 

B.PRIME GENERAL CONTRACTOR; CURTAINWALL CONTRACTOR, AND ROOFING CONTRACTOR BIDDER QUALIFICATIONS

 

General Contractor bidders interested in submitting a proposal must apply for pre-qualification and must be licensed under the Provision of Title 34, Chapter 8, and Code of Alabama, 1975. The General Contractor shall include a copy of their Alabama Contractors license in their pre-qualification submittal. Each contractor must have a minimum of 5 years’ proven experience in their line of work. Only General Contractor’s who have completed the pre-qualification process and have been approved will be eligible to submit a bid for the Project.

 

The pre-qualification procedure is intended to identify responsible and competent bidders relative to the requirements of the Project. Each prospective bidder will be notified of the results of the pre-qualification on Tuesday, February 10, 2026.

 

 

 

C.BIDS:

 

The Jefferson County Commission will receive sealed Proposals for the project until 2:00 PM Local Time on Tuesday, February 26, 2026 at the Jefferson County Courthouse, Room 1, General Services, 716 Richard Arrington Jr. Boulevard North, Birmingham, Alabama 35203, after which time they will be opened in the Commission Chamber, Second Floor, Room 270.

 

 

 

No Bids will be accepted after the time stated for the receipt of Bids. This requirement will not be waived. The clock in the County Commission Chamber will be used to determine the correct time as determined by the Director of General Services, or his designated representative. At the time stated above, the Proposals will be opened and publicly read aloud.

 

All Bids must be on a lump-sum basis. Submit two identical copies of the Bid on the Proposal Form provided, without changes, in a sealed envelope bearing the Contractor’s name, and current Alabama license number. Bids that do not bear the General Contractor’s current license number will be returned without being opened.

 

 

 

Construction Contracts shall be awarded only to a Prime General Contractor, licensed by the State Licensing Board for General Contractors, as required by Title 34, Chapter 8, Code of Alabama. Construction Contracts in excess of $100,000 shall be awarded only to Contractors licensed as required by the 1978 Code of Alabama, Title 34, Chapter 8 as amended. Bidders must be “responsible” in accordance with criteria in the Bid Documents and as stipulated by Title 39-2-3-(e) of the Code of Alabama

 

 

 

A Bid Bond, executed by a Surety company duly authorized and qualified to make such bonds in Alabama, payable to Jefferson County in the amount of 5% of the Bid, but not more than $10,000, must accompany the Bidder’s Proposal. Performance and Labor and Material Payment Bonds in the amount of 100% of the contract price, will be required when the Contract is presented by the Contractor to the Owner.

 

 

 

A mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held at 1:00PM Local Time on Thursday, 12 February 2026 in the Jefferson County Courthouse, Room 22, Ground Floor, 716 Richard Arrington Jr. Boulevard North, Birmingham, Alabama. Because of the nature of this project, General Contractors who have been pre-approved must attend the Pre-Bid Conference. If the number of bidders who attend the Pre-Bid Conference decreases so there is little or no competition, the Bid may be postponed at the discretion of the Owner.

 

Bid Documents (Drawings and Project Manual) will be open to public examination after 12:00 PM Local Time on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, at the office of SSOE, Inc., at 2204 Lakeshore Dr #110, Birmingham, AL 35209 (Tel. Tel. 205- 323-2373).

 

 

 

Bid Documents will be provided electronically on Tuesday, February 10, 2026, to pre-approved General Contractors and these plan rooms: Construct Connect, Birmingham Construction Industry Authority; Construction Journal, and CMD Group. Bids will only be accepted from pre-approved General Contractor bidders who have confirmed receipt of electronic documents to the Architect. No Bid may be withdrawn after the scheduled closing time for the receipt of Bids for a period of ninety (90) days.

 

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids; to waive formalities and technicalities, and to proceed in its’ own best interests.

 

 

 

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BID 26-14-01

 

 

 

NOTICE TO BIDDERS/BID CANCELLATION

 

Notice is hereby given that Central Alabama Water has canceled Bid No. 26-14-01 Fittings (Annual). The bid was originally advertised with a bid opening date of Monday, January 26, 2026. This cancellation is effective Thursday, January 29, 2026.

 

This bid will be reissued at a later date, and all prospective bidders will have the opportunity to submit a new response when the rebid is advertised.

 

Further information can be made in the Purchasing Department’s office at 3600 First Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 35222, or by emailing shayla.townsend@caw-al.gov, or on our website at www.caw-al.gov

 

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BID# 26-14-03

 

 

 

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

 

Central Alabama Water will be accepting sealed bids for Fittings (Annual), BID 26-14-03.

 

The specifications may be examined and obtained in the Purchasing Department’s office at3600 First Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 35222, or by emailing shayla.townsend@caw-al.gov, or on our website at www.caw-al.gov.

 

Sealed bids for Fittings (Annual) Bid #26-14-03 will be received in the Purchasing Department not later than 10:30am, Wednesday February 11, 2026, at which time and place they will be publicly opened and read.

 

 

 

Prospective bidders should deliver or mail their sealed bids to 3600 1st Avenue North, Birmingham, Alabama 35222, directed to the attention of LyTonja Levert, Purchasing Manager, and marked in the lower left-hand corner of the envelope as follows: “Bid Fittings (Annual) 26-14-03 Wednesday February 11, 2026, at 10:30 a.m.”

 

 

 

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ADVERTISEMENT for BIDDER PRE-QUALIFICATION

 

And NOTICE of INTENT to RECEIVE BIDS

 

from PREQUALIFIED BIDDERS

 

 

 

Pre-qualification submittals will be received by UAB PM Darren Kruty on behalf of the Office of the Chief Facilities Officer, UAB Health System, Sr. Assoc. Vice President, UAB Hospital, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the University of Alabama Board of Trustees at UAB Hospital Planning, The Daniel Building, 15 20th Street S, Birmingham, AL 35233.The original and two (2) flash drives with PDF duplicates of submittals are required for pre-qualification approval; however, email transmission copies may be transmitted to the Project Manager at dkruty@uabmc.edu and cc’d to nthompson@pooleandcompany.com to expedite the review process with a hard-copy of the submittal and one flash drive to be delivered within 24 hours.

 

UAB CALLAHAN EYE 1ST FLOOR ED RATED PARTITION

 

UAB PROJECT #H265008

 

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM

 

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA

 

 

 

SCOPE OF WORK:

 

 

 

The scope of work includes upgrading fire partition ratings on the 1st floor including upgrading partitions and adding new fire/smoke dampers. The project will be performed in an occupied building at UAB Callahan Eye. All shutdowns must be coordinated accordingly with CEH and UAB. Adjacent spaces are sensitive to noise, vibrations, and dust and will require implementation of measures to mitigate these issues. General Contractors seeking to be pre-qualified must have demonstrable knowledge and experience as a General Contractor (not as CM) with similar projects in an operating Hospital, and must demonstrate experience with the implementation, monitoring and management of Infection Control Measures and Interim Life Safety Measures as a General Contractor on similar projects. UAB Callahan Eye is located at 1720 University Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35233.

 

 

 

PRIME GENERAL CONTRACTOR AND SUBCONTRACTOR BIDDER PRE-QUALIFICATIONS:

 

 

 

Prime General Contractor bidders interested in submitting a proposal must apply for pre-qualification and must be licensed under the Provision of Title 34, Chapter 8, and Code of Alabama, 1975. A copy of current Alabama Contractors license is to be included in pre-qualification submittal.

 

 

 

Only bidders who have completed the pre-qualification process and that have been approved will be eligible to submit a bid for the Project. Prospective Bidder’s Pre-qualification Package must be received by the Owner’s Project Manager no later than 2:00pm local time on Tuesday, February 24, 2026 after which no further requests will be considered.

 

 

 

Pre-qualification Requirements Information Package may be obtained from the Architect upon letterhead request sent by email or scanned into an email to nthompson@pooleandcompany.com.

 

 

 

The pre-qualification procedure is intended to identify responsible and competent prime contractor bidders relative to the requirements of the Project. Each prospective prime contractor bidder will be notified of the results of the pre-qualification, on or about Friday, February 27, 2026.

 

 

 

The Owner reserves the right to waive technical errors in applications, or abandon or extend the pre-qualification process, should the interests of the Owner appear to be promoted thereby.

 

 

 

Progress Design and Construction Documents:

 

Prior to the pre-qualification deadline, project progress plans and specifications may be examined at the following location:

 

 

 

Architect:

 

POOLE & COMPANY ARCHITECTS, PC

 

1827 1ST AVE NORTH, SUITE 100

 

BIRMINGHAM, AL35203

 

(205) 326-2206

 

(205) 326-2201

 

nthompson@pooleandcompany.com

 

BIDS BY PRE-QUALIFIED PRIME GENERAL CONTRACTOR BIDDERS

 

 

 

Documents: 

 

Bid documents will be available on Friday, February 27, 2026 at the following locations after notice to pre-qualified bidders is given. Drawings and specifications may be examined at the Office of the Architect; McGraw-Hill Construction Dodge, 3000 3rd Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35233; at the Construct Connect Plan Room, 30 Technology Parkway South, Suite 100, Norcross, GA 30092; and at the Birmingham Construction Industry Authority, 3600 Fourth Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35222.

 

 

 

Bonds:

 

A certified check or bid bond payable to the University of Alabama at Birmingham in an amount not less than five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid, but in no event more than $10,000 must accompany the bidder’s proposal. Performance and Statutory Labor and Material Payment Bonds will be required at the signing of the Contract.

 

 

 

Bids:

 

Bids must be submitted on proposal forms or copies thereof furnished by the Architect. No bid may be withdrawn after the scheduled closing time for receipt of bids for a period of ninety (90) days. The Owner reserves the right to reject bids if such action is determined to be in the best interest of the Owner. The Owner reserves the right to revoke pre-qualification of any bidder in accordance with Section 39-2-12, Code of Alabama, 1975, as amended in 1997 (by Act 97-225). Bids will be received until Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 2:00pm local time at The Daniel Building, 15 20th Street S, Birmingham, AL 35233. Bids shall be clearly identified on the exterior of the package with the bidder’s name, address, State license number, the name of the project being bid, time and place of the bid opening. Sealed bids shall be properly identified.

 

 

 

Bid proposals may be hand delivered or received by mail on the date of the bid opening at the Office of Darren Kruty, The Daniel Building, 15 20th Street S, Birmingham, AL 35233, until 12:00 noon. After 12:00 noon of the date of the bid opening, bid proposals must be hand delivered and presented at the bid opening. Sealed bid proposals shall be submitted in triplicate and shall be properly identified. All bid proposals received after the day, and time listed above will be returned unopened.

 

 

 

Nonresident Prime Contractor Bidders:

 

Under Section 39-3-5, Code of Alabama, 1975, nonresident prime contractor bidders must accompany any written bid documents with a written opinion of an attorney licensed to practice law in such nonresident prime contractor bidder’s state of domicile as to the preferences, if any or none, granted by the law of the state to its own business entities whose principal place of business are in that state in the letting of any or all public contracts. Resident prime contractors in Alabama, as defined in Section 39-2-12, are granted preference over nonresident prime contractors in awarding of contracts in the same manner and to the same extent as provided by the laws of the state of domicile of the nonresident.

 

 

 

Fire Alarm Work

 

In accordance with Title 34, Chapter 33A (the ACT), of the Code of Alabama 1975, bidders for fire alarm work of this project, if any, must include with their bid evidence of licensure as required by the ACT by including with the bid submittal a valid State Fire Marshall’s permit.

 

 

 

  1. PRE-BID CONFERENCE

 

A mandatory pre-bid conference for prequalified Prime General Contractor’s will be held at UAB Callahan Eye, 1720 University Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama 35233 on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 at 10:00 AM CST.

 

 

 

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LEGAL NOTICE

 

INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB) – No. 2025-01-REBID-2
Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority (MAX Transit)

 

The Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority (BJCTA) hereby solicits sealed bids for CNG Station Site Demolition & Abatement. Bid documents are available exclusively through the PlanetBids Vendor Portal at https://pbsystem.planetbids.com/portal/55902/portal-home. Bids are due: February 20, 2026, at 2:00 PM (CST). Submissions must be made electronically via PlanetBids. Late bids will not be accepted. A (Non-Mandatory) Pre-Bid Conference will be held on February 10, 2026, at 10:00 AM (CST) via in-person or virtually. The meeting link is provided in the IFB documents. Questions must be submitted through PlanetBids by February 13, 2026, at 3:00 PM (CST).This project is funded in part by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and is subject to all applicable federal requirements, including Buy America, Davis-Bacon, Lobbying, and Debarment provisions. BJCTA reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

 

 

 

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INVITATION TO BID

 

ITB# 09-26 “FUEL SITE MAINTENANCE” JEFFERSON COUNTY, AL

 

 

 

Bids will be received by the Jefferson County Commission Purchasing Agent Michael D. Matthews, Ph.D., C.P.M., until 4:00 (CST) p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, for ITB 09-26 FUEL SITE MAINTENANCE. All solicitation information including forms, and specifications are available for download free at https://jeffcobids.jccal.org/Search.aspx. Interested parties must meet bidder requirements and qualifications as specified in the bid documents on or before the date that the bids are due. All questions must be submitted in writing to procurementservices@jccal.org attention Charles Lindsey/ DoMonique Andrews. A pre-bid conference will be held Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. (CST) in Purchasing Suite 830 of the Jefferson County Main Courthouse, 716 Richard Arrington, Jr. Blvd. N., Birmingham, AL 35203.

 

 

 

 

 

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Notice of Self Storage Sale

 

 

 

Please take notice Storage Depot – Cahaba located at 5300 Cahaba Valley Rd. Birmingham AL 35242 intends to hold a public sale to the highest bidder of the property stored by tenants for default on their Storage Contracts. The sale will occur as an online auction via www.storagetreasures.com on 2/19/2026 at 10:00AM. This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Certain terms and conditions apply.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) No. FY25-003

 

EXTERIOR REPAIR PROJECT

 

(FACIA, SOFFITS, GUTTERS, DOWNSPOUTS, & WOODEN POLE)

 

DATE ISSUED: FEBRUARY 6, 2026

 

TYPE OF PROJECT: The Agency is seeking sealed bids from qualified licensed and insured entities to provide exterior repair services. These services are a necessary supplement to the daily operation of the Agency. The successful bidder shall provide all labor, materials, equipment, and services necessary to complete exterior repairs to the Agency’s facilities, including facia, soffits, gutters, downspouts, and wooden pole repairs or replacement, in accordance with the specifications outlined in this solicitation.

 

CONTACT PERSON: Renae Garrett, Executive Administrative Assistant

 

PRE-BID CONFERENCE & SITE VISIT: Friday, February 13, 2026, 10:00 a.m. CST

 

QUESTION SUBMITTAL DEADLINE: Friday, February 13, 2026, 5:00 p.m. CST

 

BID SUBMITTAL DEADLINES: Friday, February 20, 2026, by 2:00p.m. CST

 

 

 

BID SUBMITTAL ADDRESS: FAIRFIELD ALABAMA HOUSING AUTHORITY

 

6704 Avenue D

 

Fairfield, AL 35064

 

 

 

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ABANDONED VEHICLES

 

2009 Honda  Civic 1HGFA16919L014859

 

2007 Acura TL

 

19UUA662X7A021521

 

Will be sold on the 23rd day of March at 11:00 AM at 1 800 Wreckers 130 3rd Ave No Birmingham AL 35204

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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BID 26-12-03(A)

 

 

 

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

 

Central Alabama Water will be accepting sealed bids for Chemicals – Liquid Chlorine, BID 26-12-03(A).

 

The specifications may be examined and obtained in the Purchasing Department’s office at 3600 First Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 35222, or by emailing derleda.abrom@caw-al.gov, or on our website at www.caw-al.gov.

 

Sealed bids for Chemicals- Liquid Chlorine will be received in the Purchasing Department not later than Thursday, February 19, 2026, at which time and place they will be publicly opened and read.

 

Prospective bidders should deliver or mail their sealed bids to 3600 1st Avenue North, Birmingham, Alabama 35222, directed to the attention of LyTonja Levert, Purchasing Manager, and marked in the lower left-hand corner of the envelope as follows: “Bid Chemicals – Liquid Chlorine, Bid26-12-03(A) Thursday, February 19, at 10:00 a.m.”

 

 

 

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