I’ve published more than 400 pieces about our Birmingham region in the past seven years.
But I was completely blindsided by comments on the I believe in Birmingham Facebook page for the article, Five Points South landlords are self-destructive.
Continue reading Five Points South: Don’t let the ‘naysayers’ win
On my way to lunch to Surin at Five Points South I had to walk around an unconscious man sleeping across the sidewalk in front of Jim ‘N Nicks.
I looked up at the building across the street and saw a huge piece of graffiti scrawled near the top. (See photo) Continue reading Five Points South landlords are self-destructive
ComebackTown is published by David Sher to begin a discussion on a better Birmingham.
Today’s guest blogger is Douglas Stewart. If you’d like to be a guest blogger, please click here.
The story you are about to hear is truly remarkable.
If an author had written it as a plot in a book, you wouldn’t have thought it possible.
For many years downtown Birmingham had the reputation of being unsafe.
Many people had given up on our downtown. There were vacant buildings everywhere and businesses were rushing to the suburbs never to return. Continue reading How we slashed crime by 70% in downtown Birmingham
ComebackTown is published by David Sher to begin a discussion on a better Birmingham.
Today’s guest blogger is Teresa Thorne. If you’d like to be a guest blogger, please click here.
We in Birmingham are doing a lot of things right.
If you don’t believe me, jump in your car and drive all over downtown and midtown.
There’s construction everywhere. In fact it’s difficult to get around because orange plastic barrels are blocking lanes, and fences are blocking sidewalks.
This is exciting—and you can see it with your own eyes.
But there is less of one thing–and I bet you didn’t notice. Continue reading How Birmingham cut homelessness by 53%
ComebackTown is published by David Sher to begin a discussion on a better Birmingham.
Today’s guest blogger is Teresa Thorne. If you’d like to be a guest blogger, please click here.
2,675 pieces of graffiti were splattered all over downtown Birmingham last year–but you didn’t see any of them. That’s because our CAP officers removed them almost instantaneously.
Can you imagine what downtown Birmingham would look like if we hadn’t been removing graffiti from walls, signs, and power boxes for the past 19 years?
I’ve spent most of my adult life in Birmingham, and I feel we rarely take the time to celebrate our successes. Continue reading Graffiti covers up Birmingham
Comebacktown published by David Sher & Phyllis Neill to begin a discussion on creating a better government for our region.
Today’s guest blogger is Teresa Thorne.
Downtown Birmingham is as safe as the over-the-mountain neighbors Mountain Brook and Vestavia. How can I make that assertion? Here are the numbers:
Crime in the central downtown (85-block area) that CAP patrols has dropped 55% from 1995-2011. Continue reading Downtown Birmingham safe as Mt. Brook or Vestavia