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All-South Metro
2023 Park improvements, more events and possible school upgrades on horizon
By NEAL EMBRY
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ollowing a couple of years of construction delays, the city of Vestavia Hills is expected to wrap up the Community Spaces Plan in 2023, with just the completion of Wald Park left to finish. In addition to improvements at Wald Park, work will begin to improve Altadena Valley Park, a former golf course city leaders hope can be turned into an asset for residents, while new events at new city facilities will also mark the new year. Several businesses will be joining the city as new developments take shape, while Vestavia Hills City Schools leaders anticipate a vote on a tax increase to fund the proposed 1Rebel 1Future plan to bring improvements and additions all across the school system.
The annual All-South Metro football and volleyball teams have been released.
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DREAM TO REALITY More than six years after plans were first introduced, the Community Spaces Plan should be complete this year, City Manager Jeff Downes said. While plans previously called for the nearly $60 million worth of infrastructure and parks and recreation improvements to be finished in the past couple of years, a series of delays related to supply-chain issues and other problems pushed back the last handful of projects, including the new Civic Center, which opened in November 2022.
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Above: Altadena Valley Park in Vestavia Hills. Below: Improvement efforts continue near Wald Park on Dec. 15. Photos by Erin Nelson.
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