Print ArticleIn our quest to see how downtown Jacksonville's revitalization efforts compare nationally, Metro Jacksonville visits the core of Alabama's largest city: Birmingham
Southside
Home to the campus of UAB, the area beween downtown Birmingham and the slopes of Red Mountain is known as the Southside. Developed as one of the city's first streetcar suburbs, today the Southside is now Birmingham's most vibrant urban district. In recent years, several infill mixed-use projects and major public initiatives, such as Railroad Park and a ballpark for the Birmingham Barons AA Minor League Baseball team, are effectively making the Southside and downtown one major interconnected active urban district.
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