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Bo Grisham and Blake Crowe are the two leading commercial real estate executives who have reviewed the trends of the Birmingham metro office market. According to them, the Birmingham market is fairly strong or at least doing better with a slow and steady progress but speculative new office construction would not be seen anytime soon.

Fontaine International, Birmingham-based maker of coupling devices that connect tractors to trailers would relocate its headquarters of the Associated General Contractors of America at Interstate 459 and Grants Mill Road in Irondale. This move marks the end of the Fontaine's gradual withdrawal from its extensive 138,000-square-foot facility in Pinson Valley.

Two separate projects were separately completed along the U.S. Highway 31 corridor in Vestavia Hills. The two projects included the renovation of the 8400-square-foot building that debuts as a new medical business called Shades Mountain Imaging and the 5400-square-foot office building formerly owned by Pankey Properties.

Steve Miller and Joe Saling are leading the Ross Bridge Resort and Spa team that expects to open a world-class facility on the Robert Trent Jones golf trail course in April 2005. The 20-acre Ross Bridge resort snuggled up against Shades Mountain and would feature 20,000 square feet of indoor/outdoor meeting space, a 12,000-square foot, full-service European spa, and the crown jewel that has attracted the two resort veterans.

O'Neal Steel, a family-owned Birmingham steel service center is a distributor that sells an array of steel and aluminum products and does steel processing. The major reason that helps the company to stay ahead of the volatility of the steel market is the fierce loyalty that it provides to its long-standing customers during the steel crisis.

Partnership between United Distributors, wine and beer distributor based in Atlanta has merged with Alabama based Montgomery Beverage, creating a new company, MBC United Alabama. After its merger MBC United Alabama has brought the statewide distributorship portion of BirminghamEs Superior Beverage and has earned the state's top wine distributor.

Southern Research Institute is sprucing up its sprawling campus as part of its long-term commitment to the cityEs Southside, realizing that curb appeal is important to attract talent and students. New retaining walls, sidewalks and landscaping are the latest components of a five-year facility improvement campaign undertaken by the Institute.

The increase in fuel prices and insurance costs are having a bad impact on the trucking companies in Birmingham, U.S. and causing some companies and many drivers to abandon the industry. The higher fuel prices and insurance result into increase in freight rates due to shortage of capacity.

Conventional wisdom has it that Internet air fares are the cheapest. But a Portland, Ore.-based airfare auditing company says not so fast. Traditional corporate agencies saved business travelers more than [...]