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Their ad in the yellow pages: "To get a better piece of chicken,
you'd have to be a rooster !"
I imagine the new owner will want to keep some form of "Cotton Patch,"
since it has such strong name recognition in the area.
Other bits from recent T-News articles :
* Reworked "Riverwalk Place" development proposal (across from the library) could include a
9,000-square-foot Japanese steakhouse overlooking the river, next to the park pavilion.
* UA still in negotiations with Bryce (Honestly, I expect this one to go through. The main sticking
point right now appears to be finding an appropriate "New Bryce" location and funding.
UA currently has over 650 acres, and the existing Bryce property would add over 200 acres to that.
* UA postpones south end zone expansion of Bryant-Denny. This one surprised me, since they
already did the studies. If the team does well this fall, though, and the national economy recovers,
I expect this will heat back up.
* "Retreat at Lake Tamaha" development could eventually fill a 275-acre section of forest between
Nucor Steel and Holt (roughly between 25th Av E and the eastern bridge). The first phase would
be apartments or condos geared toward UA students. The more interesting bit here is that there
are hundreds and hundreds of undeveloped acres west of this site along Warner Pkwy (mostly
owned by Westervelt, I think).
* Work has begun on the new city fire station HQ (15th Street & Greensboro Avenue) , which frees
up the old Fire Station #1 on 6th Street downtown to be sold.
* City is in preliminary talks with YMCA and Focus (senior citizen activity center) about relocating their operations
from prominent locations in the heart of downtown to a possible new facility that could be constructed
by the city school board HQ in the less commercial part of downtown.
* Planned budget of new Federal building downtown is $65 million (city hoping to get the remainder
of the needed Federal funding within a year).
* Other "scoops," some not yet reported by the media:
* The proposed downtown riverfront amphitheater and relocated farmer's market would cost
about $13 million, with Red Mountain Entertainment of Birmingham booking the acts.
* According to the grapevine, the Army Corps of Engineers found a 24-acre site along the western bypass
to eventually relocate their operations. This would free up several acres of prime riverfront land across
from Queen City Park, immediately west of the planned Riverwalk Place development, and just east
of the office complex under construction (Bank of Tuscaloosa, Hunt Oil, JMF accountants, and Rosen law firm).
* Tuscaloosa County's population was 164,875 in 2000, and estimated at 177,906 in 2007.
Hale declined from 18,276 in 2000 to 18,111 in 2007, and Greene declined from 9,946 in 2000
to 9,201 in 2007. So, the 2007 estimate puts the metro area at 205,218.
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Edited by DruidCity, 20 March 2008 - 06:40 PM.
