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Birmingham Water Works spends $69,000 for ‘image improvement plan’ survey
The Birmingham Water Works has a full in-house public relations department, two outside PR consulting firms, two lobbyists, and years of failing marks on customer service surveys. And board members Wednesday voted to spend $69,000 on another survey to better understand how the public feels about them and to create...
Personal injury law firm with office in Birmingham giving out $10,000 in grocery gift cards Thursday
A personal injury law firm with an office in Birmingham is giving away $10,000 in grocery gift cards at a secret location in the city Thursday. The first 100 people to show up at a secret location -- to be disclosed at noon Thursday -- will each get a $100 gift card from 1-800-TRUCK-WRECK, the firm announced.
CBS 42 In Your Neighborhood: Belview Heights
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — CBS 42 Inside Your Neighborhood is a new series that explores communities around Central Alabama. This week, CBS 42’s Sherri Jackson takes us to the Belview Heights neighborhood Jackson took time to speak to Lt. Cantina Williams of Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service about the neighborhood. Belview Heights neighborhood president Johnny Gunn […]
From vacant to vibrant: How Birmingham is using old office space to create new housing
In an act befitting the Magic City, Birmingham developers are making over 1,500 apartments appear in the years to come without constructing any new buildings. While most magicians never reveal their secrets, there are two words that reveal how this feat is possible- adaptive reuse. This is the ongoing trend of transforming vacant spaces previously built for things like office work or retail into apartments or mixed-use living areas.
UAB, sued for allegedly stealing Alabama inmates’ organs, ends contract to conduct state prison autopsies
UAB Hospital’s pathology department will no longer be conducting the autopsies of dead state inmates after UAB severed its contract with the Alabama Department of Corrections, the hospital said Monday. UAB’s decision comes after the hospital was sued last month by the families of five dead state prison inmates...
CRU Lounge attorney speaks out following Birmingham’s lawsuit against bar
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Dangerous exhibition driving, lewd behavior, loitering and excessive noise violations are among the reasons cited for why the city of Birmingham has taken legal action against downtown nightclub CRU Lounge. “Our thing is to make sure that we’re actually heard on the facts and on the merits and I think once […]
JeffCo Considering $2M for New Coca-Cola Development
Jefferson County during its meeting Thursday will consider being part of an economic development project that will create a new gateway in and out of Birmingham. Representatives of Coca-Cola Bottling Company United asked the commission for an economic incentive package of $2 million as the company looks to relocate from its longtime home north of Birmingham Shuttlesworth International Airport to the former Stockham Valves and Fittings location in Birmingham’s Kingston Neighborhood.
City council votes no on rezoning for new Gardendale subdivision
GARDENDALE, Ala. (WIAT) — It was nearly a full house at Gardendale City Council meeting Monday night. Almost every resident in attendance took to the podium expressing their concern with a project that would build eight garden homes and would require the city to rezone 1916 Moncrief Rd. from R-1 single family homes to R-G […]
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