Tag: revitalization
Birmingham’s BuildUP School Receives $3 Million to Expand Skilled Trades For...
By Barnett Wright
The Birmingham Times
BuildUP Community School in Birmingham on Tuesday received $3 million to expand programs that prepare high school youth for skilled...
Inside Norwood: One of Birmingham’s Most Diverse Neighborhoods
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
Birmingham’s Jermaine “FunnyMaine” Johnson—entertainer, change agent, and entrepreneur—had a choice to move anywhere in the metro area. He chose Norwood,...
Bessemer’s Historic Lincoln Theatre Being Revitalized
The Birmingham Times
Built as a 400-seat “picture house” to show first-run movies for African American audiences, the historic Lincoln Theatre is the last undestroyed...
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...
‘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...
Upcoming plans for Fourth Avenue Historic District. Here are some.
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Plans are underway or in the works to revitalize downtown Birmingham’s historic Fourth Avenue Business District and Civil Rights District....
City Council adopts Urban Renewal plan to fight blight
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
The Birmingham City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to expand the Druid Hills Urban Renewal and Redevelopment Plan to include...
