The Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce turned 120 years old on Monday, May 14. The Birmingham Business Journal ran a piece on their website talking about the accomplishments of one of, if not the oldest, organization of its kind in the region. It currently has more than 2,200 members across seven counties.
Happy belated birthday!
ExpressJet began to offer non-stop service to under its own name yesterday to New Orleans and Raleigh-Durham. This is the first time that non-stop service has been available to the Crescent City since Hurricane Katrina two years ago.
It also alleviates the need for researchers in the Triangle or from UAB among others to have to change planes in Atlanta, or so says a post on CheapFlights.com from earlier today. The company has been flying under its own name since April 2. Continue reading
Bright House Networks has announced that they will be adding the all college sports channel to their basic digital tier service beginning next Tuesday, May 15. For those that are interested, it will be channel 172. This follows Charter Communications’ nationwide addition of the channel to their programming in late March. The addition of the channel provides additional coverage of sports at HBCUs in addition to those sports that are not normally covered on the other stations in the ESPN family nationwide. The resulting exposure that these sports and those institutions receive as a result will be interesting to watch, especially in light of a recent situation here in town. Continue reading
Posted in Birmingham, Business, Citywide, Sports
Local beer lovers have one more pilsner to add to their list. Emerald Coast Beer Company, has launched Emerald Coast Pilsner. The Birmingham-based investment group spearheaded by Linearstone Holding Corporation (site still under construction). The beer, which will be brewed by Melbourne, FL based Florida Beer Company, will be available at first only in bottles and on tap at restaurants and bars. Plans call for the initial rollout to include distribution in Alabama and the Florida panhandle – home of the coastal area for which the beer is named – with additional distribution throughout the Southeastern United States in 2008.
Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, Business
If you thought that the hotel building boom was slowing down anytime soon, it’s not, at least not yet. Birmingham-based Harbert Realty Services and Concord Hospitality Enterprises Co. of Raleigh, N.C. announced a partnership and plans to spend $52 million to renovate the old Regions Plaza building with a “4-diamond quality hotel” this afternoon at a 2 p.m. press conference at Regions Center.
When completed the as of yet unnamed hotel will house 255-rooms and include several features including a full-service restaurant and bar, a coffee shop. It will also add an estimated 12,000 square feet of additional meeting space to the city’s central business district. The project will not be started until the relocation of some 400 Regions Bank employees is complete, most into the larger Regions Center. Continue reading
Posted in 35203, Alabama, Birmingham, Business, News
The Tutwiler Hotel celebrated the completion of the majority of its $9 million renovation with the citizens of Birmingham during a ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday evening. The event marked the completion of upgrades to the interior and exterior public areas and the guest room.s and served as the beginning of a weekend aimed at introducing longtime visitors and the curious to the changes to the former Ridgely Apartments building. The Birmingham Heritage Band will be performing on the Richard Arrington, Jr. Blvd. side of the property this morning beginning at 11:30 a.m. and the property will hold an open house on Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (convenient for those attending the Magic City Art Connection in nearby Linn Park). Continue reading
During this morning’s Design Review Committee meeting, committee member Cheryl Morgan read a statement into the record of the minutes voicing her regret and concerns about the vote that allows for the demolition of the Birmingham News building. Morgan serves as the director of the Auburn University’s Urban Studio in Birmingham.
The statement asks for all to take part in protecting the assets of the city and suggests that there is some irony with regard to the News’ reporting and its actions with regard to the 1917 structure.
Click through to view a copy of Morgan’s statement in its entirety: Continue reading
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