News
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Ballast now leasing innovative office space in Birmingham’s Switch district
Filed Under: Developer, Downtown Birmingham, Filling Vacant Spaces, Front Page
The future of the former Hibbett building at 1318 1st Avenue North is set to be the future of office space.
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Streetscape investments generate big returns for cities
Filed Under: Developer, Downtown Birmingham, Filling Vacant Spaces, Front Page, Potential-Proving, Yaysayers
Investment in Birmingham’s 20th Street North will help the city put its best foot forward. Here’s how other cities have done it.
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4 questions Birmingham should be asking about the future of city parking
Filed Under: Developer, Downtown Birmingham, Front Page
The current Birmingham parking debate should focus on how the City’s parking assets best supports the growth of downtown and the city. To that end, these are the questions REV’s CEO believes we should be asking.
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The hidden price of parking in Birmingham
Filed Under: Developer, Downtown Birmingham, Front Page, Transportation
Parking seems simple right? Pull up in front of your destination and park the car. That is the assumption developers and cities have been working under for a few decades now.
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Take a photo tour of Biso Collective’s new home in The Switch
Filed Under: Developer, Downtown Birmingham, Filling Vacant Spaces, Front Page, Potential-Proving, Yaysayers
You don’t say no to a tour of a 1926 railroad building turned tech company paradise.
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REV Birmingham wins 3 Main Street Alabama Awards
Filed Under: Business-Proving, Developer, Downtown Birmingham, Filling Vacant Spaces, Front Page, Potential-Proving
Main Street Alabama recognized REV Birmingham with three awards in the 7th Annual Awards of Excellence.
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The state of small business in downtown Birmingham: REV's observations, analysis and recommendations to rebound from COVID-19
Filed Under: Developer, Downtown Birmingham, Filling Vacant Spaces, Front Page, Get Involved, Small Business, Yaysayers
REV has pulled together a report that is intended to communicate qualitative and quantitative data along with business intelligence gathered from boots-on-the-ground conversations between REV team members and downtown stakeholders.
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BIDs give districts an identity, freedom of choice to design themselves
Filed Under: Developer, Downtown Birmingham, Front Page, Potential-Proving, Yaysayers
Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) are a great tool for implementing impactful revitalization in urban areas. They’re sort of like a homeowner’s association for a commercial district.
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What is a BID? And, how one is already helping vibrancy in Birmingham
Filed Under: Developer, Downtown Birmingham, Front Page, Potential-Proving, Yaysayers
BIDs have been used increasingly in downtowns, main streets and other commercial districts throughout the country as an avenue for public improvement and maintenance.
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Birmingham launches pop-up trail to support social distancing
Filed Under: Developer, Front Page, Transportation, Yaysayers
Beginning Saturday, May 2, the First Avenue South corridor between 12th Street and 20th Street will be closed to vehicles and become a multi-use trail for pedestrians and cyclists on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the month of May.