GOOD NEWSS!!!!!!! at 3:12 PM

After David Leer, a failure to the world of renovations, lost the Cabana Hotel (Leer Tower now) to foreclosure because to bills were to big to pay for a guy WHO WANTED TO SPEND $20 MILLION ON A FRICKEN CONDO RENOVATION. Let's forget about my anger.... a For-Sale sign has been put up by the buildings savior "Watts Realty" ON THE INSIDE!! There is way to much asbestos inside the building to go in unprepared. But besides that, good people are in the building, rich people will buy it and convert to something amazing I'm sure. Watts has saved the day! YAY!

THANK YOU SO MUCH WATTS!!! YOU HAVE BRIGHTENED UP THE ENTIRE CABANA HOTEL!

-Phoenix

Info Addressing the Leer signage. at 7:08 PM

The Leer signage has been put up on top of the building and will likely not come down until something is done with the building... Isn't that sad? The building used to be the greatest thing to happen to this city and Leer gives up on it... This sickens me.

Bottom of the Building. at 11:50 AM

I took ALL these pictures just to add. This is the bottom of the building, mostly fenced or boarded as you can see. I have always wondered what the "Vita Man" At the bottom meant. But I've only been to Birmingham twice. But it's so old! Everyone needs to take a stand and save this building.

Save The Cabana Hotel! at 7:24 AM

The Thomas Jefferson hotel was founded around 1929, being the premier hotel of Birmingham. It had orcheastra's straight from New York playing in it's grand ballrooms. It had an impressive 2 story lobby that featured giant ceiling ornaments, the rest being laced with marble and granite. George Wallace had his own residence there, Mickey Rooney had stayed there. By the 1970's downtown Birmingham had become a poor place, the hotel was going under. By 1981 the hotel had became $200 a month apartments, before it was declared uninhabitable in 1983, never to be touched again. In 2005 Leer Corp. bought the building with plans to turn it into 64 lofts, the plan went through and the building returned to foreclosure. Asbestos is flaking around the floor, The basement is flooded by and underground stream, the homeless are making there homes in the lower floors. The hotel needs to be saved or else it might have to be taken down! Leer Corp. Had a dream, Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream, and the immigrants arriving at ellis island in New York all had a dream, to start new life, a new world. This building can be saved! We just need everyone to stand up for a cause and make this building the luxury it once was! I first noticed the building on my recent trip to Birmingham Alabama, I read all night for 2 nights about the building and now I can't stand to see it go down like this. Though I am far away in Chicago... I can still help, no matter where you are... you can help too! Stand up and save this building!