Birmingham looking for feedback on business survey
Updated Apr 01, 2021;
The City of Birmingham is looking for feedback from businesses to help complete a disparity study.
Consulting firm Griffin & Strong is looking into whether minority- and woman-owned businesses are getting a fair share of contracts from the city of Birmingham. To ensure accurate results, the firm is seeking more input from the local business community. The survey is set to close Monday.
The city is encouraging all businesses, whether minority-owned or not, to participate in the survey, which can be found here. Officials say more responses will ensure that findings and recommendations are based on complete, accurate information.
He particularly remembers introducing himself to residents of Ensley, a historically segregated neighborhood that suffered from the decline of the city’s steel industry. “They wanted better,” Woodfin recalls, “And after listening to residents I knew they deserved better.”
Soon into Woodfin’s mayoral term, his administration turned its focus on Ensley’s historic business district the former heart of the neighborhood that the city has ignored for decades. In early 2019, city officials called for proposals for redevelopment of its buildings and properties. By October of 2020, Woodfin’s administration launched redevelopment of a well-known Ensley landmark, the long-dilapidated Ramsay-McCormack Building, into a community-centered startup hub.