Downtown Montgomery is pretty rundown. But there are some okay parts as well!

For this dashboard tour I took I85 west into Montgomery, the capital of the state of Alabama. The goal was to show the Montgomery downtown area, the capital buildings and the neighborhoods near downtown. As you’ll see, downtown is really pretty and has a lot of history, and they’re fixing things up. But there are still pockets within blocks of downtown that are falling into disarray. The day was Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at dusk.

Now there’s a LOT of history in Montgomery. It became a city in 1819 and was named the capital of Alabama in 1846, primarily due to its importance in the production of cotton. And of course, in the middle of the 20th century, Montgomery was the center of events and protests in the Civil Rights Movement.

Montgomery is going through a bit of a revitalized resurgence downtown proper. A lot of money has been spent fixing up old warehouses and office buildings and turning them into loft apartments, retail, restaurants, hotels and businesses. After a lot of growth in the 90s, the population in Montgomery has flattened. There’s a couple hundred thousand people here. Crime here is about average nationally, and lower than Alabama’s other large cities.

Here’s the rest of downtown Montgomery Alabama and its surrounding neighborhoods.

Now we’re going to take a little trip just outside of the downtown area, and then come back to downtown. I wanted to show how quickly the neighborhoods just outside of downtown change and become run down within just a few blocks of downtown Montgomery. Then we’ll come back to downtown again.

Later this night, we explored Montgomery a bit. Everyone we met was super friendly and welcoming. While exploring downtown Montgomery on this fine evening, I found the Riverfront Landing sign and it called my name with all its fancy lights. Riverwalk and Amphitheater on the Alabama River! I’m in!! I went down the tunnel but alas, the riverboat was closed and nothing was open.

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