Crestwood Boulevard
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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.
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.
Notable locations (west to east)
Birmingham
- merges with/splits from 5th Avenue South
- Crestwood Park
- 5500: Crestwood Tavern (former location of Frostop drive-in, Mama Mia's Spaghettini, La Mancha's, Crestwood Grill, Michoacan & Playas del Nayarit)
- 5502-5522: Crestwood Shopping Center
- intersection with 56th Street South
- Intersection with Eagle View Drive (Eagle View Apartments)
- 6400: Crestway Baptist Church
- 7309: Crestwood Festival Center
- 7400: Aldi
- 7401: former site of Gulas Supper Club and Hooters
- intersection with Cresthill Road
- 7580: Century Plaza
- 7621: ABC Store, former location of Blockbuster
- intersection with Oporto-Madrid Boulevard
- Century Park East
- Eastwood Village (former site of Eastwood Mall)
- former location of BTNB Eastwood branch
- 7724: Ezell's Express, former location of Wendy's
- 7757: former location of Shoney's Big Boy
- 7845: Eastwood K-Mart
- 7855: former location of La Cocina
- 7901: Garden Inn (former site of Starlite Drive-In)
- 7905: Delux Inn & Suites (formerly Motel Birmingham)
- 7911: former location of Howard Johnson's restaurant
- 7929: former site of Dobbs House Luau
- 7956: Shrimp Basket (2015-)
- 7958: former location of Superpetz
- 7960: Royal Paints, Art Sign Co.
- intersection with Montclair Road and 16th Street South (Irondale)
Irondale
- 1620-1628: Grants Mill Station shopping center
- 1620: Auto Express Insurance
- 1624: Q C Financial Services
- 1628: Subway
- 1703: Hamburger Heaven
- 1709-1729: Crestwood Plaza shopping center
- 1709: O'Reilly Auto Parts
- 1717: Check 'N Go, former location of Stray Cats furniture
- 1721: Dollar General
- 1729: Iron Beach Gym, former location of Unfinished Furniture, Dress Code Warehouse
- 1721: former location of Po Folks restaurant
- 1724: Jack's restaurant
- 1730: AAMCO Transmissions
- 1801: PNC Bank
- 1804: Chevron station / Sneaky Pete's
- 1810: Krystal hamburgers
- 1811: La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries
- 1813: America's Best Value Inn & El Cancun Mexican Restaurant
- 1815: Village Spirits
- 1816: Kangaroo Express
- 1819: Green Acres Cafe
- 1845: Regions Bank
- 1847: former location of Kayser's Furniture
- 1848: American Family Care
- 1900: Veenschoten & Co.
- 1905: Sherwin-Williams Paint Store
- 1911: former location of Haverty's Furniture
- 1950: Southern Pharmaceutical Services
- 2506: Golden Rule Bar-B-Q
- 2522: Harris Automotive
- 2619: Art's Barber Shop
- 2709: Sunoco gas station (January 2012– )
- 2721: Alabama Spay & Neuter Clinic
- 2730: Irondale Post Office
- 2750: IBML
- 2800: Peak Season corporate headquarters
- 2880: Wells Fargo Bank
- 2890: Borden Dairy
- 3300: Citgo & Gas-A-Cheap
- 4678: Eastwood Animal Clinic
- 4797: Shell gas station
- 1620-1628: Grants Mill Station shopping center
- Old Leeds Road intersection, I-20 access
References
- Hulen, Tara (March 13, 1996) "Eastwood to spruce up for Olympics." Birmingham News