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Old 03-11-2015, 03:22 PM
 
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I'm not that familiar with the terrain NW of Birmingham and Nashville... but the southside of Birmingham isn't exactly easy to build on. Red Mountain, Shades Mountain, and Double Oak Mountain haven't really slowed the development.
True, but if you really look at the topography, there's far more buildable terrain with wide valleys. Even the top of Shades Mountain is really a long, southward slope from Vestavia to Hoover. Meanwhile the area to the northwest of the I-22/65 interchange is very steep slopes and ravines.
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Old 03-11-2015, 04:23 PM
 
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Well, I just think where there is a will there is a way and for everything else...there's lots and lots of dynamite.
So turn off your cellphone and 2-way radios...
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Old 03-23-2015, 06:40 AM
 
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Graysville / Adamsville I think those 2 are the next big suburb within Bham Metro / Jeffco . So much land an I wonder when will a BIG business make one of the 2 home. I think those 2 will be the Homewood/Hoover of the Northwest Bham.
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Old 03-24-2015, 02:41 PM
 
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I don't know about the sprawl effect, before rebuilding/maintaining the city center. Yesterday, I was driving along I-20/59, and realized that there is a lot of land at the Tallapoosa exit in three of the four corners. The largest lot is in the Airport corner of the exit. I hope that developers are being courted for new industries.
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Old 03-24-2015, 02:46 PM
 
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There is so much depressed land around the airport. I'm not sure how much is owned by the airport authority for noise abatement and how much is being kept empty for possible furture expansion, and how much is just plain old blight. It would all take care of itself with a new industry/company moving in - particularly to the Kaiser property. The airport is so, so very nice now inside, it deserves to have much better around it in the immediate area.
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