Birmingham
Woodfin announces “100 houses in 100 days” neighborhood development program
The money will come from sales of property to DC BLOX and Shipt.
Screenshot from Woodfin’s announcement live stream.
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin announced Wednesday a new plan to address urban blight in the city, using funds from two recent economic development projects that generated millions in revenue for the city.
The program will spend $1.4 million to improve “100 homes in 100 days,” Woodfin said. The money comes from the sale of two city properties — one to DC BLOX to build a new data center in Titusville (which sold for $600,000), and a parking deck sold to grocery delivery company Shipt (which sold for $1 million).
The remaining $200,000 of those sales will go toward demolishing dilapidated structures.
The program will allocate that money toward rebuilding neighborhood houses, by request of low-income or senior-citizen homeowners. Each house can receive up to $10,000 for renovations from the city.
“Our plan is to bundle our work to transform entire blocks instead of renovating one home on a street, which would otherwise be surrounded by blight,” Woodfin said. “This reaffirms our commitment to giving all 99 neighborhoods a fresh start.”
