29th Avenue South
29th Avenue South is a three-block (1/4-mile) long street in the Homewood Central Business District. The three-lane, east-west road runs from 18th Street South in the west to Independence Drive (U.S. Highway 31) in the east. It features both angled, forward parking and parallel parking at various points along the road sides.
29th Avenue was originally part of Montgomery Highway (U.S. Highway 31). From a southbound perspective, the highway curved east from 18th Street (although 18th continued south) to travel along 29th Avenue to what is now Independence Drive, where it curved south again. Highway 31 was rerouted to the Elton B. Stephens Expressway, once the Red Mountain cut was completed in 1970. The western curve at 18th was converted to a standard T-intersection in the 1990s.
Notable locations
- For an alphabetical list of locations, see the 29th Avenue South category.
- 18th Street South intersection (road terminus)
- Urban Cookhouse Farmers Market
- North side:
- The Curve
- 1802: Collage
- 1804: Oyama Karate
- 1808: Eighteenth Street Orientals (formerly Your Kidding)
- 1818: former location of the Domino Lounge
- 1830: SoHo Square
- The Curve
- South side:
- 1811: formerly Monty Stabler Galleries
- 1817
- 1817-A: Saxx Hair Design
- 1817-B: Centuries
- 1819: Dave's Pizza (former location of Happi)
- 1825-B: Generation Dog
- 1829: AMW/Briarcliff Shop
- 1831: Kathy's Designer Kitchens
- 1833: Homewood Police Department
- 19th Street South intersection
- North side:
- 1900: BB&T branch (formerly Colonial Bank)
- 1906: former location of Pasquale's Pizza
- 1920: Classic Wine Company
- South side:
- 1903: Aloft Birmingham SoHo Square (former location of Homewood City Hall)
- North side:
- 19th Place South intersection (north only)
- North side:
- 1924: Williams & Elliott Attorneys
- 1926: Red Lion Lounge (former location of Lafitte Restaurant and Mammy's Pancakes)
- 1930: Independence Plaza (former location of Vulcan Motor Lodge)
- South side:
- 1917: Audio Video Excellence (AVX)
- 1923: McKinney Technologies (former location of Cafe.Mac)
- 1925: Palmer's Lamps
- 1927: Pastry Art Bake Shoppe (former location of Earrol's Coiffures)
- 1931: Sanctuary
- North side:
- Independence Drive intersection (road terminus)