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As of 2023, Birmingham has two Fortune 500 public companies: Regions Financial Corporation and Vulcan Materials Company. [1] Multiple other Birmingham companies rank in the top 1000. Private companies with revenue over one billion
The Birmingham Corporation Act 1875 empowered Birmingham Corporation to purchase the Birmingham Waterworks Company. The transaction was supervised by the Mayor of Birmingham, Joseph Chamberlain, and completed on 1 January 1876 for the sum of £1,350,000 (equivalent to £160,405,360 in 2023) [2]. Chamberlain declared to a House of Commons committee
[2] [3] A member of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, [4] it described itself as "Birmingham's oldest and largest non-daily publication". [1] When Black & White suspended publication in 2013, Geiss initially intended to relaunch it with a new business model, [5] but this plan never came to fruition, and the paper ended up permanently ...
Splash Adventure (formerly VisionLand and Alabama Adventure) in Bessemer serves as the Birmingham area's water and theme park, featuring numerous slides, and water-themed attractions. Kelly Ingram Park is the site of notable civil rights protests, and is adjacent to the historic 16th Street Baptist Church .
The Birmingham metropolitan area, sometimes known as Greater Birmingham, is a metropolitan area in north central Alabama centered on Birmingham, Alabama, United States.. As of 2023, the federal government defines the Birmingham, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area as consisting of seven counties (Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby, and Walker) centered on Birmingham. [2]
Amtrak operates a service that goes to a new terminal in Birmingham, AL. [8] Birmingham Mayor George Seibels, who later oversaw the station’s decline and demolition, first arrived in the city via the terminal in 1938. By 1969, train travel had declined, and the station was demolished shortly after the last train departed on December 21 of ...
WTTO (channel 21) is a television station licensed to Homewood, Alabama, United States, serving the Birmingham area as an affiliate of The CW.It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate WABM (channel 68) and ABC affiliate WBMA-LD (channel 58).
The Birmingham Times is a weekly African-American newspaper published in Birmingham, Alabama. History The newspaper was founded in 1964 by Jesse Lewis Sr. in order to ...