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==Notable locations (west to east)==
==Notable locations (west to east)==
===Birmingham===
===Birmingham===
====[[Crestwood North]] (north) / [[Crestwood South]] (south)====
* boulevard merges with/splits from [[5th Avenue South]]
* boulevard merges with/splits from [[5th Avenue South]]
** [[Crestwood Park]]
** [[Crestwood Park]]
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** 7401: former site of [[Gulas Supper Club]] and [[Hooters]]
** 7401: former site of [[Gulas Supper Club]] and [[Hooters]]


====[[Eastwood]] (north) / [[Crestline]] (south)====
* [[Cresthill Road]] intersects
* [[Cresthill Road]] intersects
** 7500: [[Red Mountain Motorsports]], former location of [[BMW Motorcycles of Birmingham]] (2011-2015)
** 7500: [[Red Mountain Motorsports]], former location of [[BMW Motorcycles of Birmingham]] (2011-2015)
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** 7665: former location of [[Lovable Pet Center]] (1983)
** 7665: former location of [[Lovable Pet Center]] (1983)


====[[Eastwood]]====
* [[Oporto-Madrid Boulevard]] intersects  
* [[Oporto-Madrid Boulevard]] intersects  
** [[Century Park East]]
** [[Century Park East]]
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** 7911: former location of [[Howard Johnson's]] restaurant
** 7911: former location of [[Howard Johnson's]] restaurant
** 7929: former site of [[Dobbs House Luau]], [[China Garden]] (1988)
** 7929: former site of [[Dobbs House Luau]], [[China Garden]] (1988)
** 7941: [[USA Economy Lodge]] & [[Calico's]] restaurant, former location of [[Holiday Inn]] (built 1962)
** 7941: former location of [[Holiday Inn]] (built 1962), [[Calico's]] restaurant, [[USA Economy Lodge]] (closed 2021)
** 7949: former location of [[Margaret's Dance Showcase]] (1966)
** 7949: former location of [[Margaret's Dance Showcase]] (1966)
** 7950: [[Villa Fiesta]], former location of [[El Palacio]] (1981)
** 7950: [[Villa Fiesta]], former location of [[El Palacio]] (1981)

Revision as of 16:56, 16 November 2021

Crestwood Boulevard is the section of U. S. Highway 78 running from 5th Avenue South and 47th Street to somewhere near John Rogers Drive in Irondale. It is so-named because it traverses the Crestwood neighborhood before crossing Red Mountain just south of Red Gap. It was labeled as the Avondale-Irondale Super Highway on a 1964 road map.

East of Montevallo Road the Boulevard follows a route more or less parallel to I-20.

The section of Crestwood Boulevard between Irondale and Crestwood Festival Center was landscaped in preparation for the 1996 Olympic Games. Gradco, Inc. was paid $26,000 to install new plantings specified by landscape architect Mike Kirk to continue the style used already in Irondale.

In April 2019 the Birmingham City Council approved 20% matching funds to commission a Crestwood APPLE Study/Crestwood Boulevard Corridor Study through the Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham to determine of the Boulevard could be redesigned according to "complete street" principles, with improved access for pedestrian and bicycle traffic.

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Notable locations (west to east)

Birmingham

Crestwood North (north) / Crestwood South (south)

Eastwood (north) / Crestline (south)

Eastwood

Irondale

References

  • Hulen, Tara (March 13, 1996) "Eastwood to spruce up for Olympics." The Birmingham News
  • Chambers, Jesse (April 5, 2018) "Two city councilors eye stretch of Highway 78 as 'complete street'." Iron City Ink
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