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More downtown propaganda? :-)

During the Implementation Now campaign

at the end of 2004, Co-chairs

Carol Garrison, Dudley Reynolds and

Tom Hamby encouraged investor participation

in order to

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Mega-Sized Incubator Lands a New Home!

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Did the old brick BN building get torn down as part of this?  I thought that was part of their original plan.

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I do believe it will remain. I seriously doubt they would tear

down the historic structure. much less the city allowing them.

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Hi folks! Newbie here. Thought I would add a few things to the list.

Here are some developments i thought were interesting in the City of Birmingham

Fundraising for Lyric Theatre: ONB is

working with Landmarks Inc, which also owns

the Alabama Theatre, to establish a board of

directors to oversee a multi-million dollar

fundraising campaign to renovate this historic

Vaudeville-era theatre (see rendering above).

Birmingham Mayor Bernard Kincaid has included

a $200,000 pledge in his 2006 budget

to help get the effort underway. The restored

theatre will be able to host many of the smaller

acts the Alabama is now forced to turn away.

The Lyric is a key component of the Theatre

District proposed in the City Center Master

Plan.

New Social

Security Building

Plans Shared

at Briefing

Officials from the Government Services

Administration and Opus South shared plans

at the May ONB May Breakfast Briefing for

the new Social

Security

Building to be

constructed

on a twoblock

site in

the northwest

section of

downtown

Birmingham.

The state-ofthe-

art building

(see rendering above) will have more than

587,000 square feet of rentable space, have

1765 parking spaces and house more than

2200 workers. It will include amenities such

as a child care center, cafeteria and fitness

center and will also incorporate the latest in

security and safety designs mandated by the

federal government. It will also include

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In northeast metro BHM... New Urbanism development:

Developers plan a quaint community along Cahaba River

Kaija Wilkinson

Staff

June 27 will mark what Hearthstone Properties LLC hopes will be a new era for Trussville, one that will transform a 160-acre stretch of property along the Cahaba River into a quaint paradise resembling neighborhoods of the past.

Developer Barry Stalnaker has tapped the prestigious Miami firm of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. to oversee the design of the project. The firm has designed more than 100 such communities throughout the country, such as the one made famous by "The Truman Show," Seaside, Fla.

Members of the firm, including co-founder Andr