One can seer the Leer Tower from the loading dock at UAB. I always thought the tower was topped by an old radio antenna but found out recently in a John Archibald column in the Birmingham News that the short steel structure on top is actually a dirigible mooring mast.
It amuses me that a bygone builder had the foresight to envision a sky full of Zeppelins above Magic City queueing up to be docked.
That’s why it’s Magic City, I suppose.
Leer Tower was the name for the Leer Corporation’s planned $32 million redevelopment of the Cabana Hotel at 1631 2nd Avenue North into 60 condominiums plus retail and office space. The proposal, which was first publicized in 2005, was delayed by a challenge brought by Atlanta’s Inman Park Properties
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