Tag: redevelopment
Minority Firms Seek Part of Birmingham’s $1B Construction Boom
By Roy S. Johnson
AL.com/The Birmingham News
Rico Washington was sad. Oh, he was ecstatic, too. His company, Construction Works, won the bid to construct a...
Titusville residents fight blight during ‘Demolition Day’
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
John Harris, president of the North Titusville Neighborhood Association, remembers when his community was dirt roads, no sidewalks and the...
Rebuilding Titusville Community with $300M in Investments
By Ameera Steward
The Birmingham Times
Picture the Titusville you grew to know and love, a place with miles of land and even more potential. There’s...
Who Are Names Behind Some of Titusville’s Biggest Developments
By Ameera Steward
The Birmingham Times
Ronald Bayles may not live in the Titusville community, but it is where he has attended church for the past...
‘It will be great to not see the blight’ — Residents...
By Ameera Steward
The Birmingham Times
Beverly Varner remembers Titusville—her neighbors, the homes, children playing outside. She and her family moved to North Titusville when she...
Titusville Home to Condoleezza Rice, Odessa Woolfolk and Other Notables
By Denise Steward
For the Birmingham Times
When she was a child, Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Carole Smitherman often spent her summers visiting the public...
DC Blox in Titusville Serves Locally; Connects Globally
By Ameera Steward
The Birmingham Times
When DC BLOX officially opened the first phase of its multitenant data center on Sixth Street South in Titusville earlier...
For 40 years, Ruffner Mountain has been the Magic City’s urban...
By Ariel Worthy
The Birmingham Times
When driving through the East Lake community, one passes homes, old and new; small businesses; schools; churches—a mountain isn’t something...
To combat the negative effects of gentrification, Birmingham task force to...
Times staff report
As part of the Birmingham Task Force for Preserving Dynamic and Diverse Neighborhoods initiative, the city will hold four public meetings to...
Federal lawsuit alleges Fair Housing violations and discrimination in redevelopment of...
By Nick Patterson
The Birmingham Times
A federal lawsuit seeking to stop planned redevelopment of Birmingham’s Southtown Court public housing community contends that the city of...
