Urban and Regional Planning

Emergency Preparedness Drill 2019

Some days you just mail it in and go fishing when things are slow at work.🤷🏾‍♂️😐🎣

Everybody listed are jazz LEGIONS!  This was my very earliest days of hearing jazz and liking it because it was abstract, impulsive or so it seemed.

I’d like to see more new development in Birmingham to transform the skyline but saving and re-using some of the first and at the time tallest “skyscrapers” in the deep south is good stuff.

After decades of stagnation, decline, downtown Birmingham, Alabama is on the comeback.  No new high-rise buildings as downtown is in the flight path of the airport and building heights are limited at 34 stories but lots of vacant dormant buildings are being re-purposed for re-use, occupation and some low-rise and new construction is happening.  That’s infinitely better than what’s been going on since Birmingham’s 1960s face-plant/crash and burn as an up and coming metro area.

Great investment, great for tourism, keep up the good work Mobile region.

Closing out 2016 listening to instrumental rap/HH that will pass as sampled jazz.

My fall seed garden crashed and burned but alas, I shall go down swinging having put out 18 Georgia collard plants, 9 cabbage plants and 18 mustard plants complete with a wall-ERR-UUH-deer/rabbit abatement system made of plastic mesh.

Good early 80s stuff from Steve Khan on a cold grey overcast day in southeast Alabama.

Nice job Birmingham.  You make a list where Huntsville is nowhere to be found. That’s good.  You are still the largest city in the state, for now, with Huntsville getting clearer in the rear view mirror though. 

There was a popular 80s cut by Janet Jackson, “What Have You Done For Me Lately”.  In terms of Birmingham and the state of Alabama, that has been very little since Birmingham’s implosion of the 1960s.  Huntsville has been the only bright spot in the state while Birmingham has been stagnant and in decline with the demise of the steel industry, hanging like a loose tooth until the last 10 years.  Good to see the resurgence in the once heavy industrial “Pittsburg of the South”.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFlsyjcTLOE

What is the status of 4-laning the Alabama 167 / Florida 79 corridor?  WELP, AS USUAL, Florida’s portion from PCB to I-10 that has been under construction for the last 20+ years is speeding to completion, MEANWHILE, Alabama’s portion hasn’t started, not even the 2 or so miles announce north of Enterprise 2 or 3 years ago.  Granted the portion from the Florida line to I-10 is of no priority to Florida but Troy to Enterprise should be of some priority in Alabama.  Oh well, do-nothing delays indefinitely as usual in Alabama.

Ready to play. 😆

Nice replica of the Alabama Theatre.

Developers in downtown Birmingham, Alabama have resurrected one of the most historic structures in downtown Birmingham and the state of Alabama.  This venue should see a long and productive new life and attract many tourists and locals.

This is an outstanding acquisition for the Huntsville metropolitan area.  Great fit with Redstone Arsenal as well.