The hopes and dreams for Birmingham’s western area have been front and center in recent months, including plans to revitalize the Five Points West commercial district with the proposed redevelopment of Fair Park and the opening of new businesses nearby (e.g., the city’s newest Applebee’s restaurant).
The Five Points West Business Association has been reactivated by [...]

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Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford this morning laid out his plans to City Council members to completely revitalize Fair Park, a $125 - $150 million project that would be funded using portions of the recent sales and business tax increases, and could be completed in three years.All Langford needs now is the Council’s approval of the [...]

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Birmingham’s Police Department appears to have settled on a new decal package for their vehicles. It was one of the early initiatives announced when Larry Langford was elected mayor late last year by himself and chief A.C. Roper.
Here’s a picture of one of them on patrol in the Five Points West area close to [...]

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Mayor Langford is inviting all African American males in Birmingham, Alabama to attend a crime summit tomorrow evening beginning at 6 p.m. at Fair Park Arena. Two inmates from the St. Clair Correctional Facility will be on hand as well as a presentation of Plan 10/30 Why Am I Dying?/Do You Care?, an effort to [...]

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The Applebee’s restaurant that has long been promised in Birmingham’s Five Points West community nears completion. It will be the seventh  metro Birmingham location and only the second location west of I-65 and first in the city limits.
The restaurant is already poised to do great business, especially with the potential of an upgraded Birmingham International [...]

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Save Nashville Speedway posted earlier today about a meeting on December 20 between management of the Birmingham International Raceway, currently located on the Alabama State Fairgrounds in Birmingham’s Five Points West community, and Mayor Larry Langford.
The post, which sites a release posted on the front page of the raceway’s website, states that Mayor Langford was [...]

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[ October 18, 2007; 1:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] It may not be a crawfish boil, but Terminal readers are invited to celebrate the grand opening of Schaeffer Eye Center’s newest office in Five Points West, 2100 Bessemer Road. Frame vendors will hold trunk shows for Prada, Ferragamo and Cazal-Caviar beginning at 1 p.m. Or arrive later for door prizes and refreshments from 5:30-8:30 [...]

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