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A taste of Nelchie's Cajun: Q&A with Chef Kevon Lewis
Filed Under: Birmingham Food & Drink, Business-Proving, Downtown Birmingham, Small Business
A Woodlawn Street Market vendor since the second market, Chef Lewis is taking over the kitchen at Rojo on Monday, August 12 as part of Birmingham Restaurant Week.
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Harvest Brunch and Woodlawn Street Market bring big crowds to the neighborhood
Filed Under: Business-Proving, Events, Small Business, Woodlawn, Woodlawn Street Market
REV’s mission is to create vibrant commercial districts, and we saw that on display in a big way in Woodlawn on Saturday, August 11. Birmingham Restaurant Week’s 2018 season kicked off with a sold-out Harvest Brunch alongside a larger-than-ever Woodlawn Street Market, drawing more than 1,000 people to just a few blocks in heart of the historic district.
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Homemade taste and quality ingredients: Suzie Jane's Cozy Cakes and Bars
Filed Under: Birmingham Food & Drink, Business-Proving, Small Business
REV’s June 2018 Woodlawn Street Market was Hawkins’ first experience selling her goods in a public setting. Up until then, Hawkins had only her instinct that there was a market in Birmingham for her cakes – and it turned out, she was right! She saw robust sales and collected encouraging customer feedback.
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Farm-to-Dunkelweizen: Meet the blackberry farmer behind the Proximity Series brew
Filed Under: Birmingham Food & Drink, Small Business
When Taylor Hatchet of Boozer Farms was met with Cahaba Brewing’s order for 400 pounds of blackberries, she knew it was going to be a challenge. However, that didn’t stop her from working with REV’s Urban Food Project to make the Proximity Series Blackberry Dunkelweizen possible
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True40 Fitness Studio is first tenant to open in The Battery
Filed Under: Downtown Birmingham, Filling Vacant Spaces, Potential-Proving, Small Business
Kaitlyn Bentley, the first franchisee and owner of True40 Fitness Studio Downtown Birmingham, is a lifelong fitness enthusiast with a love for the community that fitness studios create.
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Sign up to volunteer at 2018 Birmingham Restaurant Week events
Filed Under: Birmingham Food & Drink, Downtown Birmingham, Get Involved, Small Business
The time has come for Birmingham Restaurant Week 2018 – and we want you to be a part of the fun August 10-19!
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Birmingham Restaurant Week 2018: Celebrate food leading the revitalization of our city
Filed Under: Birmingham Food & Drink, Downtown Birmingham, Small Business
From Aug. 10-19, BRW gives 70-plus local restaurants the opportunity to showcase all the ways they are feeding the city – from filling vacant spaces and creating locally-sourced dishes to mentoring the next generation of culinary greats.
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Cahaba Brewing and REV’s Urban Food Project partner on farm-to-glass seasonal brews
Filed Under: Birmingham Food & Drink, Downtown Birmingham, Front Page, Small Business
Each beer in the ‘Proximity Series’ will feature seasonal local produce that travels from Alabama farms to your glass.
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Shipt CEO: 'Entrepreneurship is the best way to make change in a city'
Filed Under: Downtown Birmingham, Events, Small Business, Young Pioneers
Shipt CEO Bill Smith and REV CEO David Fleming discuss how dreamers and doers have shaped the past, present and future of Birmingham.
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HTC profile: American Life Building lofts designed for downtown's workforce
Filed Under: Developer, Downtown Birmingham, Filling Vacant Spaces, Potential-Proving
As downtowns across the country are energized by new development, the need for additional affordable, or workforce, housing in city centers is a hot topic. Developers of one of Birmingham’s highest profile, long-vacant properties are planning to address this need.