News
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Christ Health is Investing in Woodlawn With Their New Behavioral Health Center
Filed Under: Developer, Woodlawn
Christ Health is opening their new Behavioral Health Center in April of this year. Alabama is one of the many states with limited access to mental health facilities leading Christ Health to make this project a priority in Woodlawn.
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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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Woodlawn Street Market is showcasing Birmingham's small businesses on Sunday, Dec. 2
Filed Under: Business-Proving, Events, Small Business, Woodlawn, Woodlawn Street Market
The last market of 2018 is in the heart of historic Woodlawn on Sunday, December 2!
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What to expect at a special wellness-themed October Woodlawn Street Market
Filed Under: Business-Proving, Events, Small Business, Woodlawn, Woodlawn Street Market
Woodlawn Street Market, now with five markets in its fifth year, is getting ready for its first-ever October Woodlawn Street Market! The Saturday, October 13 market will have a special focus on health and wellness.
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Independent Presbyterian Church and City Meats: Feeding body and soul
Filed Under: Downtown Birmingham, Yaysayers
Independent Presbyterian Church has served the needs of the Birmingham community for nearly 30 years through their food pantry program. The ministry has recently grown to fill even more community needs through a food voucher partnership with Woodlawn’s City Meats and Vegetables, a corner store in REV’s Urban Food Project network.
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Council-approved: Complete Streets to create a safer Birmingham
Filed Under: Developer, Downtown Birmingham, Transportation
A policy designed to transform Birmingham’s infrastructure by creating safer, more accessible streets is now officially in effect.The Birmingham Complete Streets Ordinance was approved unanimously by City Council on Tuesday, March 6.
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UrbanMain team's mission: Equitable entrepreneurship in Woodlawn
Filed Under: Downtown Birmingham, Events, Small Business, Workshops
In a city like Birmingham, where multiple commercial districts must coexist, each historical district’s revitalization strategies may look quite different. Each community needs to find its own niche, its own voice and its own identity – in ways that feel right for all the different people who are invested in it. That’s exactly what UrbanMain is intended to do!
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UAB honors students visit Woodlawn for lesson in community development
Filed Under: Events, Front Page, Woodlawn, Yaysayers
Students in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Global and Community Leadership Honors program visited Woodlawn this week to learn about community and economic development. REV Birmingham was glad to welcome the incomparable professor Anthony Hood and his class as we talked about inclusive revitalization in Woodlawn and other urban commercial districts.
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Community Leaders Work to Strengthen Grant-Writing Skills
Filed Under: Events, Small Business, Workshops, Yaysayers
Community leaders and REV Birmingham are working together this spring to strengthen our collective grant-writing skills, taking advantage of an opportunity to learn best practices from the experts right here in our city. Because, yes, grants equal money – but in the non-profit world money equals IMPACT.
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What are Complete Streets? A safe, accessible way forward.
Filed Under: Downtown Birmingham
The Birmingham City Council Committee of the Whole recently introduced a draft of a Complete Streets Ordinance, a significant step forward in the ongoing advocating of a balanced transportation initiative in the City of Birmingham.