It’s a start, and it definitely can’t hurt. The more improvements there are, the more people will choose to shop there and the more businesses will want to be located in the area. It sounds like the concept, “If we build it, they will come.” I think along with the places for food, a bowling alley, movie theater, putt putt golf and some recreational areas would draw people in to the area, making it more family friendly and mesh well with all of the automotive derived businesses.
-Lynne Faulk
(Green Springs) certainly needs some attention. (We need) stricter zoning. We don’t need any more quick cash or payday loan offices in or near Homewood. These establishments just invite trouble. Please try to find some honest business people for our city.
-Beverly Douthit
So the drag on the neighborhood, Mazer’s, finally leaves, and they install a thrift store and a Pep Boys, neither of which are geared towards the tax-paying citizens of Homewood or Vestavia.
There are already five dumpy, plastic banner-waving auto repair-type shops between Valley and Lakeshore. There is an Everything’s a Dollar, a disgusting Food World and K-Mart and the disaster that is the Palisades, including a Wal-Mart that I would just as soon walk on hot coals as venture into.
While some of that is city of Birmingham and cannot be overcome, the corners of Green Springs and Palisades are garbage, the Lovoy’s vacant (lot), the meat and three dump at the old Captain D’s and the Paw Paw Patch are equivalent to East Lake real estate, and that shopping center where the post office is rivals anything in West End. The center where Dominos is is not even worth mentioning,
People in Homewood and Vestavia have a lot of money to spend and we need their taxes, but they are shopping at the City Center, Mountain Brook Village and The Summit.
I sincerely hope they can make it right. But Pep Boys and Mission thrift is a step in the wrong direction.
-Peter Drake
