re: First time in Birmingham

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The brutally honest answer is that several private entrepreneurs invested in the city, and then we gentrified the shite out of it because we liked what they were doing.

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It really was kind of a strange deal. How do you get the most scared people in the world out of their suburban cocoons and back into the city? The downtown Barons stadium and Good People brewing really got the ball rolling, and then people realized the world outside of their golf course community really ain't that bad.