News
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Finish up your holiday shopping list with Birmingham goodies!
Filed Under: Downtown Birmingham, Small Business
We have plenty of local makers and entrepreneurs right here in Birmingham with gifts that will delight your unwrappers.
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Behind the Pitch: Here's how 2018 Big Pitch finalists are preparing for Nov. 17 competition
Filed Under: Big Pitch, Business-Proving, Downtown Birmingham, Events, Small Business
It’s almost time for the world to meet the entrepreneurs behind some of Birmingham’s next BIG things. The Big Pitch presented by PNC is this Saturday, November 17. But The Big Pitch is much more than just an event.
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Sixteenth Street Baptist Church wins $150,000 national grant to support historic preservation efforts
Filed Under: Developer, Downtown Birmingham, Front Page
Thanks to Sixteenth Street Baptist Church supporters’ diligent online voting, the historic church will receive a $150,000 grant to install protective glass on the outside of all the church’s recently-restored stained glass windows as well as make repairs to the cupola and twin bell towers.
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Join Young Pioneers & Back Forty founders for beer, food & Sloss Docks tour
Filed Under: Birmingham Food & Drink, Business-Proving, Downtown Birmingham, Events, Small Business, Young Pioneers
Back Forty Beer Co. Founder & CEO Jason Wilson and Back Forty Birmingham Owner & CEO Doug Brown will share their stories and lead a tour of the new brewery on Thursday, November 1 at 5:30 p.m.
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Farm to Brut IPA: Meet the scuppernong farmer behind the Proximity Series brew
Filed Under: Birmingham Food & Drink, Downtown Birmingham, Small Business, Yaysayers
The Proximity Series Scuppernong Brut IPA is on tap now at Cahaba’s taproom and will go to REV Birmingham’s Urban Food Project partner restaurants in October. Meet Jason Powell, the farmer behind this unique brew.
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Lift Every Voice: Vote daily to help 16th Street Baptist win preservation grant
Filed Under: Downtown Birmingham, Get Involved
REV Birmingham nominated Sixteenth Street Baptist Church for this year’s Partners in Preservation competition, and is working with them to win the grant for preservation for the historic church. Birmingham, let’s lift every voice in support of this project by visiting www.16thStreetBaptist.org to vote daily through October 26.
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What’s your vision for downtown Birmingham? Let’s take a BIG SWING with the City Center Master Plan
Filed Under: Developer, Downtown Birmingham, Filling Vacant Spaces, Front Page, Get Involved, Yaysayers
The new vision for the City Center should take big swings and lay out actionable steps that will unite and excite the community about our shared future. Implementing such a plan is at the heart of REV Birmingham’s mission to create vibrant commercial districts.
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Farm to Berliner Weisse: Meet the peach farmer behind the Proximity Series brew
Filed Under: Birmingham Food & Drink, Downtown Birmingham, Small Business
The most recent farm-to-glass beer is a Peach Berliner Weisse, made with peaches from Witt Farms in Hayden.
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REV Birmingham earns 3 Main Street Alabama awards for 2017 projects
Filed Under: Downtown Birmingham, Events, Front Page, Small Business
REV Birmingham received honors for three 2017 projects at the fifth annual Main Street Alabama Awards: Excellence in Placemaking for the Woodlawn Tactical Urbanism project, Excellence in Historic Preservation for the Big Alabama Sign campaign, and Excellence in Business Development for Art Town.
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‘Taque’ to mix tacos and barbecue in REV Birmingham's REVeal Kitchen at The Pizitz
Filed Under: Birmingham Food & Drink, Business-Proving, Downtown Birmingham, Small Business
Taque (pronounced tah-kyoo) – a concept in which tacos meet barbecue – will open in the first week of September in the REVeal Kitchen space in the popular downtown food hall.