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Looking for apartments in Birmingham? You’ll love the rich history the Birmingham has to offer. Once known as the “Pittsburgh of the South” for its iron and steel production, Birmingham is now a mix of manufacturing and service industries, including medical and engineering.
At the heart of Birmingham is a six-block area known as the Civil Rights District. It commemorates Birmingham’s major role in that movement and includes the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. The historic Fourth Avenue business district originated in the early twentieth century in answer to segregation. Black business owners started their own establishments there, some of which are still in operation.
Birmingham has a large college population and a focus on college sports teams. The University of Alabama at Birmingham fields teams in football, women’s volleyball, men’s and women’s cross-country, basketball, indoor and outdoor track, soccer, golf, and tennis. With an abundance of college students, Birmingham has an abundance of apartments for rent.
Birmingham has four seasons, with an average winter low temperature of 32 and a summer high of 90. Its annual precipitation, at 64.2 inches, is well above the national average of 38.7.
The Birmingham area offers a variety of outdoor activities, from fishing for bass, bluegill, crappie, striped bass and rainbow trout in its 14 lakes to hiking in the 25,000-acre Sipsey Wilderness Area, 90 miles northwest of downtown, canoeing on the Cahaba River, and dozens of golf courses, including the Greystone Country Club, a stop on the Bruno’s Memorial Senior PGA tour.
Birmingham has a AA baseball team, the Barons, and an arena football team, the Steeldogs. Racing fans will find lots of action at Barber Motorsports Park and the
Talladega Superspeedway. The Birmingham Race Course features races of a different nature, greyhound and thoroughbred. Birmingham also hosts the Southern Athletic Conference Championships, the B.A.S.S. Masters Classic, the Region’s Charity ClassicTour golf tournament and NCAA March Madness first and second rounds.
Vulcan Park features the world-s largest cast-iron statue. Pepper Place Saturday farmers market offers fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Natural beauty is on display at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Birmingham apartments are centrally located to most major attractions around the city.
The arts can be found at the Birmingham Museum of Art, The Alabama Jazz H all of Fame, Red Mountain Theatre Company, the Carver Performing Arts Center, and Birmingham Festival Theater. Jazz fans attend “Function at the Junction” each July at Erskine Hawkins Park.
An efficiency apartment in downtown Birmingham rents for $470-550. A one-bedroom apartment near the Cahaba River, in a building featuring a cyber café, movie theater, tennis court, pool and community car wash, rents for $800. A two-bedroom Birmingham rental apartment on the UAB campus ranges from $655-$1170.