By Chris Yow
Editor
TRUSSVILLE — The developers who transformed Avondale from an abandoned area of Birmingham into a thriving entertainment district have their next big project — downtown Trussville.
Redevelopment of the area took a major step forward Tuesday night when the Trussville City Council approved a $2 million incentive plan for a local developer. Coby Lake, owner of Avondale Brewing Company and Downtown Trussville, LLC, has acquired options to purchase six downtown buildings in the area known as Quad One, along Morrow Avenue. He and business partner Chris Donaldson, a Trussville resident, plan to begin transforming the area as the two have done in other parts of the metro area, including Avondale.
Because of his ties to Trussville, Donaldson is excited, along with Lake, to be able to bring his vision for the city to life.
“I’m from Trussville, my wife works in Trussville, my kids go to school here. This is important to me,” Donaldson said. “I’ve done this so many times in my life that I’ve learned to be cautious. At the same time, though, it’s such a home run that it’s exciting.”
In fact, the excitement rang true in the first informal meeting between Councilman Zack Steele, Scott Buttram, who represented the Trussville Redevelopment Authority, and Donaldson. When that meeting began, Donaldson asked, “What do you want and where do you want it?” From there, the idea of developing Quad One took off.
Donaldson brought the idea of transforming Trussville’s downtown to Lake, and the two partners then met with Mayor Buddy Choat, Steele and Buttram. Lake quickly began looking at downtown properties, and has now options on nearly 45,000 square feet of real estate in Quad One. The plan for that real estate, according to Lake, is to create a family-friendly, entertaining atmosphere with locally-owned retail shops, restaurants and possibly a brew pub.
“We’re focusing on local businesses, local owners from Trussville and the Birmingham area. We’re not looking for franchises or that sort of business. We want to bring in what’s not there,” he said. “Trussville is primed for this type of development. It’s really perfect for a family-friendly, walkable downtown area like this.”
For Donaldson, it’s a little more personal, due to his connections to Trussville. His wife, Melissa, is the Child Nutrition Program director for both Trussville City Schools and the state of Alabama.
“Our goal is to build something the whole community can be proud of,” he said. “Taking everything we’ve learned and putting that into this project will be beneficial to the development and to the city.”
Buttram said having Lake and Donaldson involved was a blessing due to their history and expertise.
“These developers not only share the vision we have for downtown, but they have the means, and — more importantly — the contacts needed to bring in locally-owned businesses we’re looking for in Trussville,” he said.
The agreement reached at the council meeting allows for up to $2 million in reimbursement, but would not be payable to the developer until improvements have been completed and verified by the city. The money would be disbursed as certain benchmarks are hit.
“We are not just handing them cash,” Choat said. “The developer is simply asking the city to reimburse some of the expense he will incur while improving the city’s downtown district.”
According to the resolution: “Significant capital improvements will be required to enable them to house a proposed brew pub and the new type of tenants desired by the city for the project, and to retain existing tenants . . . will cost the company approximately $8 million . . . the city finds it necessary, wise and in the public interest to assist in the location of the project to Quad One and the renovation and development of the project by providing the company up to $2,000,000 of total assistance to offset the costs of the required improvements.”
That money would be deposited into an escrow account as portions of the development is completed, and if completed in the given timeframe, the money would be payable to the developer. The city also must approve any proposed tenant into this particular development, giving the council a chance to control the atmosphere in the area. Through the agreement, the city envisions several restaurants similar to those found in Avondale.
Donaldson said he hoped this agreement would benefit both parties, and that he felt like it will.
“We’re not doing this for the money, but having this contract with the city will allow us to put more into the area,” he said. “We have a decade worth of experience in real estate and commercial development, and we feel like it’s been preparing us for this opportunity. We want the city’s investment to be positive for them and for us.”
This investment for the city, Choat believes, will spark an interest in the rest of the downtown area.
“Moving our downtown forward has been our plan for this administration since we took over,” Choat said. “This is certain to be a catalyst that will jump start more development in our downtown districts.”
Steele and Buttram agreed none of this would be possible without the hard work of so many.
“This is going to be one of the greatest things to ever happen in Trussville, and it is all due to this council working together and the leadership we have,” Steele said.
“Trussville has so many advantages with shopping centers and Interstate exits, but you can get that anywhere. What happens downtown will dictate our personality,” Buttram added. “I can’t say enough about the mayor and City Attorney Rick Stotser and their work to bringing this to fruition. It wasn’t an easy task to complete, even with everybody being a willing participant.”
Moving forward with Lake and Donaldson, however, was an easy decision for the city.
“We’re thrilled to have a developer with this background to be interested in Trussville, and how it can reshape our downtown for the future,” Choat said. “We are looking forward to working with this group in building downtown Trussville.into a destination spot with families in mind.”
Lake and Donaldson are just as excited about the potential.
“I’m excited about Trussville and I’m excited about this project,” Lake said. “It’s where Chris lives and he’s my best friend and partner and wants to do something good for the city.”
176 Comments
Daniel Ingram
I thought Avondale was all African hair weave shops and adult video stores?
Josh Tinnell
Shelbi Tinnell
Kenny Denham
Clearly you haven’t been downtown in the last 5 years
Daniel Ingram
Avondale isn’t downtown. Avondale is just past Eastlake. Downtown wouldn’t be Avondale, it would be Birmingham… clearly.
Cynthia Ray
No, Woodlawn is just past Eastlake. Avondale is just next to downtown.
Daniel Ingram
Still dirty and ghetto.
Judy Hulsey Acton
It’s definitely not what you have in your mind.
David Hard
Tommy Alfano Michelle Alfano
Jo Ann Milam
Good Lord people!! This is AWESOME news!! So exciting. Actually in Avondale for dinner now; Can’t wait to see this happen! Thanks Mayor!!
Elizabeth McKee
Cheryl Stone-Hamilton William McKee Bev Sue Green-Herrington Kathleen Strickland
Janet Nelson Eubanks
Obviously, you haven’t been anywhere near Avondale in some time. It’s a growing foodie area with a fair amount of night life. Very community oriented.
Holly Smith Winslett
Ummm, we DO NOT want that crap out here!!!!
Janice Gafnea Gallagher
Bring it on. Hope happens sooner than Veterans Park. That’s laughable now.
Hope Herrod
What crap would that be?
Christi Crowley Smith
Awesome news!!
Holly Smith Winslett
Hope Herrod oh honey , just by your FB page I’m pretty sure you know.
Heather Roberson
Having moved backed to Trussville after living in areas and cities like St. Louis, MO and Nashville, Brentwood, and Franklin, TN over the last decade, I find this to be wonderful news! I’ve said for years that we need something like this in Trussville. I would love to know how I can become more involved in this development.
Branden Saccomani
I want that crap-lol…have you BEEN to Avondale??
Eric Gay
No locally-owned, family and pet-friendly restaurants and shops? No, we surely don’t want that in Trussville.
Anna Scharf Key
Branden Saccomani me too! Who cares about bojangles and basically the entire Pinnacle.
Shone Foley Waite
This is AWESOME news!!
Natalie Adkinson
I’m pumped! Avondale has some great restaurants. Bring it on!
Ruth Canterbury
Don’t care what you think, Avondale is still not safe. Two women carjacked and kidnapped in two years is not safe. No telling what they don’t tell you on the news.
Shone Foley Waite
Janna Paseur Godfrey Chris Godfrey Kelli Lane
Natalie Adkinson
Cicily Welch Mobley! Brittany Mabe Bryant
Garrett Mays
Chere Ray
Christian Terrell
In the nicest way possible Holly Smith Winslett you are ignorant
Chere Ray
Yay!!
Christian Terrell
Holly Smith Winslett I can’t even believe you have the audacity to speak like that to other human beings. I happen to personally know Hope and this offends the hell out of me.
Ellen Murphree Morgan
Bwhahaha I sure hope you’re being compensated to look this dumb. 😂
Eric Gay
So did the businesses that are THRIVING in Avondale bring those robberies and kidnappings, or did the residents of Avondale do that? I’m having a hard time making the connection between restaurants and robberies…
Lanette Milligan Cook
Perhaps they also have some ideas to get all of the racist bigots out of Trussville while making these awesome improvements.
Jennie Lowery
Better not head into Mountain Brooke either Ruth lol
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.al.com/v1/articles/20671187/gunman_carries_out_carjacking.amp
Jeanne Anne Driver Mauck
Trussville made Dr Oneill vacate his building years ago and it still sits there untouched. He was a great oral surgeon and the community suffered a loss when he was forced to leave. Shame on you!
Connor Heinzman
The positivity coming from the Avondale downtown is in part due to the planning this firm completed. The security concerns that some of you bring up are not because of the planning and design, they were there before! If anything, they have been made better in the area where progress has been made! Planners aren’t bringing crime with them, they’re bringing the prosperity that they helped foster in Avondale! The crime is askew to this topic.
Holly Smith Winslett
Christian Terrell well, I do declare…. I just did! I can put my opinion out just like everyone else. I live out here to stay safe and away from this kind of mess! Gtfo boy!
Roxanne Blount
April Michelle Holcombe
Holly Smith Winslett
Ellen Murphree Morgan oh, you’re irrelevant hun
VaLaine Jones Maxey
Awesome. We need more local restaurants. Perhaps we’ll even get some that serve local brews.
Eric Gay
YES
Christian Terrell
Holly Smith Winslett I have zero issues with you wanting to live in a great, safe environment. I was raised here, graduated here, and I love Trussville. My issue lies with how you judged my friend on assuming she knew what “crap” you were speaking of by referring to her fb page? I don’t want to jump to assumptions here because you know what that does and well you’re already half way there.
Michael W. Tucker
I wish they’d get us some places like taco mama, Saw’s BBQ and others
Like we don’t have out here!
Eric Gay
Jennie Lowery THANK YOU!
Judy Williams Coleman
Sure wish the park would get done!
Amanda Rains
Andy Rains
VaLaine Jones Maxey
Totally agree, Taco Mama and Saw’s are great. A wine and craft beer store would be awesome and maybe a high end restaurant.
Brenna Wilson
Beau Wilson
Jamie Gay
I agree 100% with Christian Terrell…. I forget people like Holly Smith Winslett who make comments like that exist.
Eric Gay
Ditto! Sign me up!
Westley Riggs
Great all we need is more traffic. Let’s build more stores so people that actually live here hate going to the supermarket.
Holly Smith Winslett
Christian Terrell I Don’t GIVE A RATS ASS WHAT YOU THINK! I came out here to be safe 16 years ago, have two sons I wanted in a better place! One already graduated, perhaps you know him, Andrew Smith! Have a 17 year old son as well. They have done great out here. We feel safe. You ought to know better! You know EXACTLY why people come out here! I’m proud of Trussville. And I do not want trash out here! So back off , Son! You have no clue!!!!!
Christian Terrell
Holly Smith Winslett it’s funny you mention your son Andrew. I do know him he bullied me constantly through high school you can ask plenty of people that were around some of his friends joined as well. I honestly didn’t even know y’all were related until after I replied to your racist comment and I explored YOUR fb page only to come to the conclusion the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. I’m not going to continue this anymore and I wasn’t going to mention your son until you did. BUT AGAIN this was about your judgmental racist comment towards someone you DO NOT EVEN KNOW. Have a great day.
Holly Smith Winslett
Christian Terrell IF you know any better you should know that it will only bring in unwanted situations and more!
Tammy McCown
Wow
Quinn Coleman
Allison Allman Zorn
Ellen Murphree Morgan
Why am I irrelevant? Because I have all my teeth and an IQ greater than my shoe size? Get real.
Holly Smith Winslett
Christian Terrell well then that should be enough to shut your petty little ass up!
Holly Smith Winslett
Ellen Murphree Morgan Idiot!
Leah Scharf Miller
Support them 5 days a week when they open! #shoplocal
Christian Terrell
Holly Smith Winslett I’m lost what will bring that?
Holly Smith Winslett
Christian Terrell have a good night little girl!
Christian Terrell
Okay y’all I can’t anymore. 😂 she’s literally proving all my points just by responding.
Leah Scharf Miller
VaLaine Jones Maxey Raceway for craft beer on tap, hwy 11….you can take it home and enjoy
Ian Maddox
There it is! No more waiting, and no more tiptoeing around the subject! This is a gigantic win for Trussville!
Ellen Murphree Morgan
Mic drop. It isn’t worth your energy. You’re better than this but you had to have known that already. 😉 Best wishes in a happy life!
Bradley Sparks
Great news for trussville. Finally opening its potential away from fast food and chain franchises.
Christian Terrell
Ellen Murphree Morgan You too beautiful!
Rebecca Fitzwater
Cannot wait!!!!!
Allison Allman Zorn
Awesome!
April Wallace
I’ll just leave this right here:
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2016/03/woman_abducted_outside_trussvi.html
April Wallace
According to your criteria, a carjacking a year, Trussville is already not a safe place.
Warren Turner McMillan
Lock & Load !! It’s A War Zone !!
Heather Roberson
Thanks, that’s basically a given. I was looking for a little more than that, i.e. development, planning and promotion.
Caroline Lopez Spears
This is awesome, despite the negativity in this thread.. I’m hopeful and very excited about what’s to come for Trussville!
Mae Rich
Some of these comments! Ignorance @ it’s best ..
Amanda Glidewell
Shelbi Tinnell
🙌🏻
Kimberly Hazel Johnson
I’d like to reserve a table with this crew 👆🏼
Shone Foley Waite
Kimberly Hazel Johnson DONE!!
Holly Smith Winslett
Lol 😝
Christian Terrell
I second this! I was shocked honestly…wait no I wasn’t.
Kimberly Tidwell Wright
Yes!!!!!
Chris Godfrey
Great job, Mr. Mayor and City Council! The downtown area has so much potential. Very excited about this news!
Adam Anderson
I see the only business I come to in trussville moving. Motorvations is the only reason I travel back to the town I grew up in. Well and Ginni G’s
John N Keegan Lewis
This is awesome , keep increasing my home value so I can sell and move somewhere less busy.
Christi Huckabaa Watts
I’m thrilled!!
Brad Williams
First of all Chris Donaldson is one of the greatest kindest giving guys I know and nothing he is associated with is crapt ..why not do a little research and u might find this will be huge for the city of Trussville
Deborah Renee Tolbert
Sooo did they ever find the lady that went missing from Trussville?
Bently Parkhill Butler Hess
Congrats Donaldson!!!!! Best of luck!!!!
Jennifer Chinnis Lawley
Wow. Shone, you are really ignorant. 😂 jk. You know I love you.
Eric Gay
Haha, well that’s one way to look at it!
Brad Williams
It could not be done by a better person. You can not find a more solid person that cares for his city more than Chris Donaldson . They could have done this development any where and been successful . Chris loves his town and community and that’s why he chose here . He has roots here and family here . He is already involved in the community.His wife is involved with the schools . His children go to school in trussville . He wants nothing more to see this city succeed . Trust me before this project was even proposed there was months of planning and hard work to make sure everything would be right . Chris is a perfectionist and nothing would fall short of that on this project . I’m very proud of him and it’s honor not only to call him family but a friend as well. Treat everyone from the janitor up like the CEO and he practices that everyday . His motto is the greatest blessing is helping those that can never pay you back . That’s what type of guy he is.
Ashton Terrell
Hope Herrod
Cicily Welch Mobley
Great news!!
Cicily Welch Mobley
This is fantastic news. I’m so excited about the idea that we won’t have to drive out of Trussville to get something of great quality (that’s not a chain) to eat!! Jeff Mobley Brandon Peters
Brandon Peters
🙌
Wil Brownell III
Kena Brownell looks like A & A is gonna have to find a new place to set up shop since Trussville is kicking y’all out…
Ian Maddox
Brandon Peters you were actually excited about this Brandon? I would’ve never guessed…
Lori Leopard
I would LOVE to see Wasabi Juan’s in Trussville!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hoping, hoping, hoping……
Cheryl Stone-Hamilton
Thanks, Liz!! Wow!
Eric Gay
Why would they move?
Daniel Courington
If they do for Trussville home values what they did for Avondale’s… the naysayers will be nowhere to be found.
Tammy McCown
Well, I have always said that bullies learn it at home. I think we can see this here.
Shannon VanderWall Dean
I live in Springville which means I come to Trussville for anything I can’t find at Wal-Mart (ahhh, country life ), but before they start building new things it seems they would want to fill the empty retail space that already exists. I’m not a developer but just makes sense to me.
Zack Velasquez
Your home value is shooting up sell your house and move somewhere else. Tarrant had the same mind set back in the day to not grow and to stay secluded
Adam Anderson
Motorvations?
John N Keegan Lewis
Eric Gay 😂
Westley Riggs
Tarrant went downhill when people moved out to the outlying areas. The only thing all this development brings is traffic and congestion. Who cares about property values when it takes 20 minutes to travel 2-1/2 miles and it’s easier to go to Springville to the grocery store. If I wanted high property values and traffic I would move to Shelby county.
Ruwena Healy
Ginni closed her retail store.
Logan Creel
Hopefully project number one is widen Main Street(all the way to I-459) to 6 lanes and widen the part From civitan park to deerfoot to AT LEAST 4 lanes…. THEN build whatever you want. But traffic is bad enough as it is. The infrastructure is not up to par to keep up with what we already have (and what we keep adding) and now they want to add and renovate more? PLEASE hear the cries of people who have to drive up and down Hwy 11 every day and WIDEN THE ROAD!!
Ruwena Healy
Don’t make this Hoover or Center Point and just keep widening the roads. Use Homewood as our model. They don’t widen every darn road.
Khalia Kennedy
It’s really sad to see this kind of behavior from adults.
Logan Creel
I’m not talking about “every darn road” I’m talking about a road that is ridiculously clogged with traffic from before 5 till after 7 every day during the week and for most of the day on the weekends. And using homewood for a model is a terrible idea bc they have exactly the problem I’m talking about… probably even worse.
Logan Creel
Please enlighten me on how widening the road is a bad idea in any way?
Perri Glover
Ashleigh Sims Marilyn Cooper
Trey Isbell
And racist of the year award for the trussville/clay/pinson area goes to Holly Smith Winslett.
You should be ashamed of yourself. Just because the electoral college gave an Overgrown Oompa Loompa the spotlight doesn’t mean that gives you ground to publicly vocalize your racism and put yourself back into the 1950s
“Oh my stars! THOSE people are moving in now? We’re doomed”
Just shut your stupid mouth. You’re outdated. You’re like Nokia phones. Cool when they first came out, but irrelevant now.
Trey Isbell
I’m sure Jesus is extremely proud of you
Haley Richardson
Shana Bakhshi
Jameshia Miller
Neal Miller Shatittla Eubanks SmithAntonio Smith
Neal Miller
Boom! I can’t wait!
Sam Modder
Coby Lake is a guy who gets things done! I think Trussville will be very happy!
Brent Buzbee
Holly, your thinly veiled racism is really sad. Maybe you should wait for this entertainment district to be built, and instead of seeing someone and judging them, try buying them a beer and starting up a conversation. I bet you’ll find you have more in common than you ever thought possible. When you remove all the bullshit labels, we’re all a lot more similar than we are different. Try some love and positivity, it’ll change your life.
Holly Smith Winslett
Trey Isbell I think you know what you can go do with yourself
Holly Smith Winslett
Didn’t know there were so many butt hurt snowflakes in Trussville! Immature and clueless!
Holly Smith Winslett
I love people , absolutely! But when I get attacked by a bunch of little idiots who still have so much to learn I WILL defend myself. I am entitled to my opinion just like the rest of you without all your idiotic remarks. Goes to show how many of you need to learn how to shut your mouths when need be and maybe even some of you need to go back to school. You are all little rotten brats!
Trey Isbell
Holly Smith Winslett what I can do with myself?
You’re so mature. So advanced. So much better than the rest of us.
And considering you’re the only one who is against this, I believe that makes you the snowflake, sweetheart.
“You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We’re all part of the same compost heap. We’re all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
You’ll choose to see that quote as backing you up. But it doesn’t back you or liberals up. It puts all in the same category. You’re not special. You will decompose in the same ground that we all will decompose in. So stop acting like you’re better than everyone else. And realize that there are more people on this planet than just you. You are ignorant. You’re a coward. Your oldest son is apparently a pos bully. I hope your youngest son is better than that and realizes what a bigot you are so he can change the opinions of your family. Because you’re a terrible human being. Sit in a tub with a toaster and leave the rest of us alone already
Trey Isbell
Btw, Holly, you do realize that there are people older than you on this post who think this is a great move right? Are they “little rotten brats” too? Or are you just someone who doesn’t know the Bible at all?
Trey Isbell
If you “love everyone, absolutely”, you wouldn’t post the things you do.
1 John 4:8
“Whoever does not love, does not know God, for God is Love”
That verse doesn’t have asterisks. It is straight forward. Love as God loves, or you don’t know God. Does God discriminate? Does God say the things you do? No. God loves unconditionally. You obviously don’t. You need to reread your bible
Trey Isbell
Holly Smith Winslett and since you took that first step, in creeping on my friend’s profile, allow me to do the same.
Your youngest son looks pretty cool. You look like someone who would get shamed by video for the entire world to see for being an extreme bigot. Your oldest son definitely looks like a bully who once he’s out of college will get jumped and beaten to a pulp by people who are sick of his shit. I bet you’re real proud of that. And I bet when your youngest son speaks out against you, you’ll disown him. Because you look like that type of low life human being.
Feels good to have people creep your profile and generalize you like you did to Hope, doesn’t it?
Bill Lowery
Great news for the city!
Barbara Hamill McGee
I think it sounds awesome! Congrats, city council and Mayor Buddy Choat!
Tammy McCown
Not sure where this person ASSumed she was the mature person on this thread, but I am a grandmother and I applaud the younger ones that show common sense and decency. Maybe you are the one that needs a lesson.
Ashley Cox
Haley Cox
Eric Gay
Ruwena Healy or Mtn Brook or Crestline or English Village. Agreed.
Christian Terrell
Holly Go back to school for what? To learn how to act and treat people like you do? Just like you stated your opinions you’re now seeing everyone else’s opinion on YOU and your actions towards people you don’t even know. This world has enough problems, open your eyes and be a solution.
Logan Creel
Why are we trying to be any of them? Or Hoover? Or homewood? Why not just be Trussville? And someone still hasn’t told me why widening the road is a bad idea, they’ve only named places who also have not widened their roads.
Beverly Elders Cross
Bevan Cross Ansley Cross
Jamie Reid
The only thing that ever brings me back to Trussville is Joel’s. Just don’t touch Joel’s.
*Side note: I wish I could count or recall how many different “redevelopment plans” there have been over the years for downtown Trussville. From turning the old Food World into something “spectacular” to completely knocking out everything on Main Street…I think I’ve heard it all. All they’ve ever managed to actually do is repaint the 90 year old facades of these buildings about 67 times. Maybe stop with all of the “talks” and actually break ground on something – Lord knows the property taxes for all of the cookie-cutter homes (literally as far as the eye can see) alone will easily pay for it. If FBC Trussville can practically turn into its own city…I do believe something more could have been done with downtown by this point.
Do SOMETHING and stop “talking”.
Ruwena Healy
Eric Gay Yes, that’s what I’m talking about. Shopping and community lifestyle… not expanded roadways that look like highways… let’s keep Trussville charming and not make it all asphalt and pavement.
Adam Bryant McAllister
That’s part of their plan.
Adam Bryant McAllister
Who cares about property values?!? Lol. People who own their homes… if you dont, and are in city limits, ill make you a heck of a deal, to get you out of this horrible situation…
Eric Gay
Logan Creel I think the point is those are thriving communities and still have 2-lane roads going in and out. People still live there and choose to drive on those roads. Doesn’t hurt anyone.
Logan Creel
This is a cyclical conversation going nowhere… and Ruwena your last sentence there is a contradiction of your previous point. If you’re willing to have new shops put in and renovated (thus automatically bringing more parking lots, which means more pavement and/or asphalt) then what is the problem with some of that asphalt being used for roads rather than further clogging what’s already there and already congested?! The charm in trussville is supposed to be the downtown area itself (which would not be affected by it) and the PEOPLE in it. The “charm of Trussville” should have absolutely nothing to do with the width of the roadways. If it does, then whoever is deciding that is reaching and nitpicking.
Logan Creel
That’s just my opinion… you’re entitled to yours but that’s what I feel makes the most sense. I’ll read and consider whatever points you will make, but I won’t respond bc clearly we are rooted in our respective opinions and not willing to budge. Which is perfectly okay. Whatever happens with the city I hop you and others enjoy it and have a good day…
Addie Sims
Ashley Howard
Ashley Howard
Lee Howard
John N Keegan Lewis
Christian Terrell 😂😂😂😂😂 boom roasted
Ashley Crowe
Ann Frye
Sondra Martin
Boom! Did you hear that?!? It’s the sound of my property value going up!
Shatittla Eubanks Smith
💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
Mel Houk
Kevin Houk!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ekkkk
Mel Houk
👏🏽👏🏽
Jai Lynne Davis
Wish they would come to Pinson.
Gary Bowers
The resisters must be dying out. This has been tried over and over starting in the mid-80s. Without mentioning names, there have been certain individuals who have fought every effort to make Trussville look good.
Lee Brewer
They really need the Corps of Engineers to fix downtown, it is a mess. What downtown needs is a F5 tornado.
Lee Brewer
Not to mention the park that has been under construction and an eyesore for YEARS.
Paul Pale Coney
The reason Avondale turned a corner is because a better, brighter and Whiter population is moving in. The reason why Trussville is going down is because it has attracted a louder, brasher and darker population.
Kathryn Love Parks
I think what they’re saying is that widening the roads to make hwy 11 look like most of the roads in Hoover with all the chain stores and restaurants takes away from the “small town charm” Trussville has because nothing is “charming” about a 6 lane highway. I get where they’re coming from, but I also get where you’re coming from. I don’t live in Trussville anymore, but I visit my parents who do live there enough to know when to avoid 11 because it’s a nightmare trying to get through it. The main difference between that stretch of 11 and places like Mountain Brook and Homewood is that those places actually have, for the most part, accessible back roads that split up the traffic when Trussville really doesn’t.
Kevin Houk
Nice! Supa excited!!
John Michaels
Ugly
Logan Creel
Not to get to where I live… and the whole “small town charm” went out the window (in my opinion at least) somewhere between the 5th and the 8th huge shopping strip that got put in the city limits.
Jennifer Chinnis Lawley
And is now almost finished.
Jennifer Chinnis Lawley
So much for The Trussville Tribune removing comments for people being “jerks”.
Laura Livesay
Susan Fendley – Raughton Cindyand Jimmy Pilley David Livesay Jr.
Paul Pale Coney
Sometimes the truth is ugly
Madison Riggins
Kimi Riggins
Krista Jarvis Doss
I heard he was in the service and moved to Washington state.
Jeanne Anne Driver Mauck
My regular dentist told me he got a wonderful offer out of state and took it even though he loved trussville and didn’t want to leave but needed a job. It bothers me every time I drive by that building to remember how the city treated him.
Alicia Thorn Chambless
We are still waiting on the “new” street signs (that are not so new anymore) to replace our old ones in the Mountain Ridge subdivision. The last mayor promised they’d be replaced four years ago. It’s the little things that count. Take care of your constituents, the homeowners. Before you make more plans, finish the jobs that haven’t been finished or just flat out ignored.
Luis E Toro
Me too….. going to try to get a spot….🤐
Luis E Toro
Me too….. going to try to get a spot….🤐
Tammy McCown
I agree wholeheartedly, Logan Creel. We have 2 blocks left of that charm. The rest are strip malls and subdivisions
Deborah Renee Tolbert
Suzanne Henderson
Austin LaDon Morris
Missy Milligan Morris
Lily Young Dixon
Austin Maverick Garst Liza Young Sherrer Lauren Smith Hornbuckle
Ron Jewell III
Yay more traffic, god I love traffic can’t wait too be stuck in more traffic….