Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said tourists, visitors and local residents who got out and spent money after the COVID-19 shutdown helped the city have a massive economic rebound. For the fiscal year, Birmingham achieved an $81 million budget surplus.
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, speaking to media on Jan. 31, 2023. Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said tourists, visitors and local residents who got out and spent money after the COVID-19 shutdown helped the city have a massive economic rebound.
A dramatic increase in shopping, eating at restaurants and going to sports and entertainment events in the city led to a large increase in sale tax revenues, Woodfin said. “We wanted to make sure the surplus went back to those who did not have probably an additional person to the right or to the left of them,” Woodfin said.
“We needed to make investments across the city,” Woodfin said. “We can support a new stadium, support a new amphitheater. We can support the upgrades and refurbs of Legacy Arena. But we can also invest in parks, recreation centers, libraries and pools. We can also spend $12 million toward street paving and continue to invest in our sidewalks and city stormwater and other infrastructure needs.”
The city will use $4.4 million of the surplus on park and recreation center improvements, including repairing swimming pools.The city will spend $8 million on vehicle fleet upgrades including fire trucks, police vehicles, Department of Transportation vehicles. About $600,000 will be spent on sidewalk repair.
The headlining investment has been the city’s $5 million share to build a $50 million, 9,000-seat amphitheater at the site of the former Carraway hospital, as an entertainment anchor to the Star at Uptown development.
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