{"id":3856,"date":"2011-06-11T00:27:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T05:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2011-06-11T00:27:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T05:27:04","slug":"good-taste-buffet-9125-parkway-east-birmingham-alabama-2000s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3856","title":{"rendered":"Good Taste Buffet, 9125 Parkway East (Birmingham, Alabama): 2000s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1210959.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1210959_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1210960.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1210960_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1210961.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1210961_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1210963.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1210963_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1210965.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1210965_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had the opportunity to visit Birmingham Alabama last weekend.  The landscape was quite a bit different than I expected.  For some reason I had it in my mind that Birmingham was a flat-land area, but actually it is quite hilly with many properties accomodating themselves to very uneven lots.  My other impression of the place (which may be just a function of the areas I happened to drive through) is that it has been hit as hard or harder than Columbia by the recession.  I could have taken a lot of pictures like these if I had had the time (or the inclination, as after all this isn't \"Birmingham Closings\").<\/p>\n<p>This particular building caught my eye for some reason.  It clearly did not start life as an Asian buffet -- The stone construction has a very 1970s look about it and it appears very <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=948\">Shoney-ish<\/a>.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/lahproperties.com\/listings\/cs001542.pdf\">realtor's PDF<\/a> says they are asking $1,100,000 for it.  Judging by the immediate surrounding areas, I have to say: \"Good luck with that..\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the opportunity to visit Birmingham Alabama last weekend. The landscape was quite a bit different than I expected. For some reason I had it in my mind that Birmingham was a flat-land area, but actually it is quite hilly with many properties accomodating themselves to very uneven lots. My other impression of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[604,603,16,602,3],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-alabama","tag-birmingham","tag-out-of-area","tag-parkway-east","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}