Talk:1979 Downtown Master Plan

Pedestrian plaza

Is this the plan that made them add planters along 3rd Avenue North and 19th Street North? The planters pushed the bus stop back to the Alabama Theatre entrance, which at the time had no exterior doors, so people thought behind the box office was a good place to pee while waiting for the bus. Plus they installed pipes for some sort of fountain that could be turned on in the middle of the 3rd & 19th intersection. There were gates installed on the roads leading into the intersection so that it could be shut down and pedestrians would be allowed to roam the area without traffic. That was all in place already in the mid-1980s when I started volunteering. I could go on, but those were the highlights. Birmingham Landmarks asked for most of it to be undone after they assumed the Alabama's mortgage, but I think it was when the McWane Center moved in that things actually happened. --Lkseitz (talk) 11:01, 11 October 2017 (PDT)