Photo credit: Chotty via Flickr
Some residents in Forest Park-South Avondale decided that they would ask Birmingham’s new mayor for a favor during the early days of his administration. The old Avonwood Cleaners building has sat vacant for years and has already suffered a fallen in roof and vandalism as mentioned in this story from August. This group simply wants the building taken down, though it the city did say in August that it may take as long as six months to clean up the property before demolition. They decided it was time to make sure that folks remembered that they wanted it down; so up went the sign on December 1…
Now if we could just get that old metal sign on the side of the building for our office…
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The First 100: Local bloggers’ thoughts
Mayor Langford immediately after the council vote on Tuesday.
Photo credit: Bob Farley/f8photo
One of the interesting things to do is to take a look at what others are saying about our new mayoral administration so far, particularly about this week’s vote. Here’s just a sampling from around our local blogosphere:
Mayor Langford, Pundit by the Pint
Birmingham’s new dome or doom?, Pt. 1|Pt. 2, Alabama Pundit
BirminghamDome.com (a whole blog apparently focused on the “dome”)
Know of any others?
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