Where do you envision 'INFILL DEVELOPEMENT" along the lines of SOHO?............ (Birmingham: lofts, home)

[raj kapoor]

I believe most would consider SOHO a great success. I believe LANE PARKE is going to be transformative. What areas do you envision with 'good bones' and a realistic possibility for infill development and what type uses?

Mine are to redevelop SOUTHTOWN to make a seamless medical/research corridor from I-65 to LAKEVIEW. This of course is already virtually a reality except for the couple blocks. Then those apts. could create another new infill perhaps on the fringe of Norwood or Titusville.

I believe that PARKSIDE is our big infill right now.

Bolstered by this weeks announcement of yet a third thirty million dollar residential project. I smell a grocery store is on the way.

What say you guys?

raj of inquisitiveness

[_birminghamster_]

Anywhere on the south or east side of the city is a good candidate for this type of development.

And, I think a grocery store is coming to Parkside or south side very soon.

[bhamguy]

I've said before that east Birmingham near the race course should be reveled into a couple of different "towns."
Also some urban neighborhoods need ti be under reconsideration.

[raj kapoor]

Originally Posted by bhamguy

I've said before that east Birmingham near the race course should be reveled into a couple of different "towns."
Also some urban neighborhoods need ti be under reconsideration.

I keep saying that DERBY PARKWAY has to explode. The location is too good and some of the commercial should be moving back that way from Trussville; they are out of room between those two ridges.

raj

[Tourian]

Man. Leveling south town and turning it into say...a bunch of brownstones would be awesome.

Hell, an empty lot would be an improvement.

alagasco is going out to derby parkway. Maybe some development will follow them

[bhamguy]

Originally Posted by Tourian

Man. Leveling south town and turning it into say...a bunch of brownstones would be awesome.

Hell, an empty lot would be an improvement.

Haha...agreed. Brownstones in the south...New York style. Birmingham would be a Northeastern city, in the South. Haha

[raj kapoor]

I'm thinking the area around the old multistory service station, (the arte deco one) on Twentieth should be about ground zero to do a major commercial collections. It is between the financial center lofts, Cityville, and the new res building about to start out of the ground at Parkside, not to mentions all the housing on UAB campus.

Since there is realistically going to be one good large grocery I have been racking my brain trying to think of the one spot that will serve them all.

The new BLAZER TRANSIT coming this Fall will make that spot walkable to almost everyone too.

What do you think?

raj of inquisition

[raj kapoor]

Originally Posted by Tourian

Man. Leveling south town and turning it into say...a bunch of brownstones would be awesome.

Hell, an empty lot would be an improvement.

alagasco is going out to derby parkway. Maybe some development will follow them

There are a couple of original brownstones on Second South at about Twenty-Third that are in great shape and are not at their fullest usage. The best one is the historic home of the madam that helped during the cholera epidemic that almost wiped out the city in the nineteenth century. She opened her home as a hospital.

raj of days gone by

[bhamguy]

Originally Posted by raj kapoor

There are a couple of original brownstones on Second South at about Twenty-Third that are in great shape and are not at their fullest usage. The best one is the historic home of the madam that helped during the cholera epidemic that almost wiped out the city in the nineteenth century. She opened her home as a hospital.

raj of days gone by

Ah, I see. Blazer Transit? What's that about?

[raj kapoor]

Originally Posted by bhamguy

Ah, I see. Blazer Transit? What's that about?

The University is setting up a first class bus transit on the Southside. They ordered the buses back in the Spring and will have them on the street by Christmas I believe.

Google it and I think you will find a recent article that showed the routes also. (extensive and frequent)

Also they are going to have the APP for your smart phone (all os) so that you can see where your bus is in real time and not just wait around.

I'm very excited about it. I will work well with Regions field and the new apt. buildings and even the grocery as I suggested.

I read the details about a month ago.

We are definitely headed places even if others don't know it yet.

raj