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Workforce return recap: Notes from the State of Downtown community conversation
Filed Under: Birmingham Food & Drink, Downtown Birmingham, Filling Vacant Spaces, Front Page
Restaurant and retail businesses are grappling with their own sustainability in the face of economic downtown and dismal foot traffic. Meanwhile, property owners are forced to be equally strategic and accommodating as they find creative ways to keep buildings occupied and financial obligations met. We have yet to see the full impacts on our downtown.
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Birmingham, this is serious. Shop local.
Filed Under: Front Page, Small Business
Mia here with REV. This holiday season, we’ve been telling you to shop local and play The Great Receipt Race. We mean it, y’all. Our small businesses need us now more than ever, and we need them if we want our city to continue to be as vibrant as it can be. I’ll explain in the video above.
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You can play The Great Receipt Race, no matter how you shop
Filed Under: Birmingham Food & Drink, Front Page, Small Business
You can always participate in The Great Receipt Race, no matter your shopping comfort level as COVID-19 rates rise.
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Love Birmingham? Here's how you can help make it more vibrant
Filed Under: Birmingham Food & Drink, Business-Proving, Downtown Birmingham, Front Page, Get Involved, Small Business, Transportation, Woodlawn, Woodlawn Street Market, Yaysayers
If you already give to REV, thank you! You make Birmingham more vibrant! If you’re considering a gift for the first time, please know that every gift, large or small, matters to us.
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Meet the artist who designed the holiday Great Receipt Race poster
Filed Under: Front Page, Small Business
You may have seen our posters for The Great Receipt Race in the windows or on the walls of you’re favorite Birmingham small business. But, do you know the artist behind the original piece of artwork?
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Here's what to buy from local shops for the coffee lover on your list this year
Filed Under: Birmingham Food & Drink, Front Page, Small Business
Are you shopping for a local coffee lover this holiday season? REV Birmingham’s Jonathan Crain has some excellent suggestions on what you can gift them.
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Bikes and scooters launching in Birmingham in 2021, a year after Zyp ceased operations
Filed Under: Downtown Birmingham, Front Page, Transportation
The City of Birmingham has approved the applications for two micromobility vendors to operate shared bikes and scooters from vendors Gotcha and Veo in a wide service area that includes downtown and many neighborhoods that will begin in early 2021.
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Here's how to turn your online presence into sales this holiday season
Filed Under: Front Page, Small Business, Workshops
An online presence is essential for small businesses in these COVID-19 times—especially for retailers hoping to attract shoppers during this holiday season. Here’s how you harness your internet power.
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Birmingham pizza is the perfect gift, way to play The Great Receipt Race
Filed Under: Birmingham Food & Drink, Front Page, Small Business
REV Birmingham’s resident pizza expert and Director of Investor Relations, Merrick Bonner, suggests adding it to your gift-giving arsenal.