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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: A glimpse inside historic Protective Life Building to soon be transformed into hotel
Filed Under: Developer, Downtown Birmingham, Filling Vacant Spaces
Rhaglan Hospitality, led by Joe White and Jim Lewis, plans to return another iconic piece of Birmingham’s skyline to its former glory. The 90-year-old Protective Life building (also known as the Commerce Center) landed at number one on the 2018 Alabama historic tax credit urban district list and will soon be transformed by the local developer into a 96-room boutique hotel.
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Birmingham Lights inspire St. Petersburg arts project
Filed Under: Downtown Birmingham, Yaysayers
Don’t you think the world could use a few more rainbows? Lucky for St. Petersburg, neighborhood revitalization agency Deuces Live has created an artistic LED lighting installation inspired in part by REV’s Birmingham Lights project on 14th, 18th, 19th and 20th streets downtown.