Tag: September 2016
Spotlight on Pike, Barbour & Bullock Counties
Pike, Barbour and Bullock counties, in southeast Alabama, are located in an area known as the wood basket of the state...
Setting a New Standard in Health I/T
Dr. James Cimino, director of UAB’s new Informatics Institute, hopes to make health care...
City Center for the Suburbs
Birmingham-based Hoar Construction built the first phase of North Cincinnati’s impressive new $146 million, 1.1 million-square-foot, mixed-use development, Liberty Center (LC),...
Construction Out of This World
As a teenage apprentice carpenter in 1962, Buddy Clark helped build a test stand for NASA’s Saturn V launch vehicle at Marshall Space...
Big Data, Big Hospital Venture
Makul Mehra, M.D., a Birmingham gastroenterologist, says he first met entrepreneur G.T. LaBorde while attending parent orientation at their children’s grade...
Stunning Stunts of a Motorcycle Museum
Maybe it’s the Harley-riding freedom on the open road, or channeling Marlon Brando and his gang of biker misfits in “The Wild One.”...
Renewable Energy Waste Conversion
Recycling human waste into fertilizer may seem like an indelicate topic for polite society, but it’s an important one nonetheless. Like most...
Tribal Health Lodge
In ancient Cherokee lore, when the earth was new, the water spider cleverly brought fire and light to the people, illuminating...
Tank Farm Questions, Conciliations
Then there was that time in Mobile when two companies sought to increase the port’s oil storage footprint, at the same time residents...
More Magic in Birmingham
Even the best facelift can be diminished by an ugly scar. That is what the city of Birmingham was dealing with in recent years,...