Tag: downtown
Savanna Tropical Cafe
It seems like we’re in the middle of a renaissance for downtown lunch options. On A Roll continues to kill it Tues-Fri with fresh, delicious meals and a rotating menu in their silver trailer; NYC Gyro has substantially stepped up their falafel game (try the baba ghanoush); and SaZa will serve you a great slice […]
Walking Downtown: Montgomery Ghost Tour
Regular readers of MML know that we’re interested in all things Halloween. So we were immediately interested to learn about Haunted Montgomery Tours, a relatively new entry to the city’s growing set of Halloween offerings. Although they normally offer tours on Fridays and Saturdays starting at 8:30, the staff were nice enough to set up […]
Downtown and Doughnuts
There’s a strange little building downtown, sitting on the corner of Commerce and Tallapoosa, across from the Renaissance Hotel and kitty-corner from Sous La Terre. This building is fairly new, and the landscape around it seems even newer, as if someone had laid sod in a hotel parking lot. Even more unusual, this building has […]
Downtown Redevelopment and Dexter
April 16 will mark the one decade anniversary of the first-ever pitch at Riverwalk Stadium. The baseball field is more than the home to the Montgomery Biscuits. It’s also a symbol of downtown Montgomery’s rebirth. Many Montgomery residents don’t even remember a time before the stadium was completed in 2004. They can’t imagine the downtown […]
Civil Heritage Trail Debuts in Downtown
The Downtown Business Association (DBA), a fairly new group of merchants and businesspersons, has introduced a great new attraction. In an attempt to appeal to out of town visitors coming to Montgomery and to create an awareness with locals that downtown is alive and well, DBA decided to cash in on something totally Montgomery. What […]
Dexter Derby Reignited
There was once an event in downtown Montgomery that drew throngs of citizens to either Montgomery St or Dexter Ave. It united all ages to celebrate culture, camaraderie and engineering; or simpler put, the boldness of the human character. From the 1920s to the 1980s, soap box derby racing was a common occurrence on these streets. […]
The Well Runs Deep
Author’s Note: For this blog post on MML, I asked Jeremy Adams to co-write by providing some background on the importance of the fountain at Court square to him and our city. Jeremy ran the Montgomery Street Coffee Shop, providing young people a safe place to hang out, exchange ideas, and dream about a brighter […]
The Art Scene
It was so weird to see so many people out downtown on Dexter Avenue at night. Everyone you talked to on Saturday night would, at some point, mention this incongruity and talk about how great it was to have so many people out on Dexter at night. It was like participating in some sort of […]
Idea Factory
In 1776, Thomas Paine wrote that inhabitants of our new nation were living in “times that try men’s souls.” For those interested in the future of our city, we’re living in times that try our consciences. It’s hard not to look at the city’s ever-unfolding ambitious plans and wonder if they aren’t part of some […]
Being Up on Downtown
Montgomery’s downtown has a rich and prosperous heritage that continues today. But to understand the future of downtown Montgomery, it helps to understand the recent past. The story begins where two cities became one. The convergence of two cities, East Alabama Town and New Philadelphia, can be seen in meeting of the streets at Court […]
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