ABOUT NORTH ALABAMA
North Alabama, also known as the Alabama Mountain Lakes Tourist Association, formed in 1964 with the express purpose of developing North Alabama’s travel industry and marketing the region to the traveling public. We now serve sixteen counties with an ever-expanding membership base representing progressive travel-regulated businesses and associations as well as various levels of government. Our hope is to expand on, and not duplicate, the objectives or efforts of local associations and organizations that represent specific industry components. We all prosper by working together in a unified effort to promote the sixteen-county region’s natural, historic and man-made attractions.
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To join us as a member, you must be located within our 16 counties. If you have questions please email Sandra@northalabama.org.
Step into your own private retreat. Relax and rejuvenate yourself in a peaceful setting. Unite your mind, body and spirit as you allow yourself a moment to get away from it all and immerse yourself in tranquility. Escape Day Spa is a family-owned business that believes in the power of healing through touch and meditation. Their guests find rest and solace through their therapeutic and cosmetic services—all designed to offer the epitome of luxurious comfort.
Escape’s staff believes in offering luxurious treatment to those looking for their own private escapes, and seeks to create a deep sense of contentment and relaxation in each guest through their therapeutic treatments.
Spa Services:
Therapeutic Massage
Unwind as you drift away under the experienced hands of our massage therapist. We offer a variety of massages, all designed to offer therapeutic release for your body.
Body Treatments and Wraps Experience the pinnacle of an elite day with a deeply soothing body treatment and wrap. We have a variety of therapeutic options available that promise to refresh your skin and surround you in bliss and comfort.
Facials and Skin Care Services Rejuvenate your skin with our unique European facials that will sweep you away to Europe, customized just for you!
DermaSweep
The DermaSweep MD system is a state-of-the-art, non-invasive exfoliation and skin revitalizing system.
Manicure and Pedicure
Few treatments are as relaxing and soothing as a professional manicure and pedicure. We take great pride in pampering our guests, and that includes showing special care to their hands and feet.
Spray Tan
Obtain the look you want with our all-natural, 100% organic spray tanning solution. Our Natural Glow sunless spray tan is a perfect way to look your best while avoiding the sun or tanning beds.
Hair Removal and Waxing
Look and feel your best at all times. We offer a variety of hair removal and waxing treatments designed to give you the smooth, comfortable look you desire.
Xtreme Eyelash Extensions
For those who want lush, luxurious eyelashes, we proudly offer a revolutionary new treatment: Xtreme Lashes eyelash extensions!
Call or go to their website to make your appointment today and get ready to feel amazing.
If diversity were a place, it would be Birmingham. People who visit here get a taste of that variety—in entertainment, cuisine, the arts, nightlife, the great outdoors—that brings them back time and again.
Birmingham was born out of iron and steel. Remnants of these early beginnings are preserved in places such as Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark. The city is also well-known for its prominent role in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. A visit to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute gives visitors an in-depth look at that important era.
The area’s antique shops are becoming places of legend in upscale lifestyle magazines around the country. Trendy malls have taken root all over the area, bringing tony, high-end shops to the state’s retail giant. Dozens of new art galleries surprise enthusiasts and collectors with a wide variety of paintings, sculpture, jewelry, ceramics, fine and funk art.
Should you have us pigeonholed as serving only barbeque and fried pies, just remember that Birmingham is home to “the Oscars of dining” with James Beard Foundation Award winners and nominees. Anyone visiting the city should take in the beauty of down-home cooking as well. And visitors with an appetite for live music will find that it is the city’s signature entertainment.
So it is diversity that is this city’s greatest strength and strongest appeal. We are a spectrum of attitudes and cultures that are all a part of the charm and intrigue that is Birmingham.
Lane Parke is not a development.
It is the evolution of a familiar dream, a firm conviction that there should be places of charm, of enchantment, of authenticity.
Somehow, the world pushes us away from such places. Lane Parke brings us back.
It is a place to revisit grace and elegance, imagination and craftsmanship. A place to revisit passion. All in the heart of Mountain Brook Village.
This is Lane Parke.
Charm revisited. Enchantment revisited. Authenticity revisited.
Lane Parke. Traditions Revisited.
A creative collaborative. An incubator for expressive minds. A junction for the future concepts of Birmingham’s artists—MAKEbhm is all of these things and more. Inside of a 22,000-square-foot warehouse in Avondale, you’ll now find dozens of artists working in multiple mediums. Their creations – from pottery to metal work, custom wood furnishings to jewelry – are also being sold around the city in various boutiques and retailers. They rent adjoining space to A. K. Hall – a jewelry maker who uses stones, pearls and metals in an undeniably beautiful way (shop online at http://www.madebyak.com) and Winslet & Rhys Mercantile, a boutique with a curations of small-producer artisan
goods and fashion. Big Spoon Creamery adds an edible twist to this side alley in
Avondale, which is already one of the city’s coolest places to visit. MAKEbhm officially opened to artists and to the curious public in mid-2016, but it was devised nearly a decade ago, by an architect named Bruce Lanier and a few of his friends. “I think this was a love-child born of a recession and a mid-life crisis,” laughs Lanier, who now serves as executive director of the project. “I’m an architect by day. And in 2009, it was rough being an architect. I had this set of notes on the wall of things I could be doing with my life. One was the idea of a community workshop.” He wanted to create a space where artists in different mediums could come together, lowering the cost of real estate, but maximizing the effects of collaboration and inspiration. He began researching and discovered an artist group called 3rd Ward in Brooklyn. They’d acquired a large and lofty warehouse space and were renting affordable
space to artists. “We called up 3rd Ward and they talked to us,” Lanier says. “We
got a lot of ideas from those conversations. We acquired some working equipment and welding equipment, and through a series of small victories and fails, we dialed in on what people wanted versus what we thought they wanted,” he says. “We like to think of ourselves as enablers. We try to make starting or pursuing an idea easier. We are
an incubator, but not a small business starter. Everyone here is doing
their own thing.” One mission of MAKEbhm is to connect with locals with these
artists. Classes are available on a daily or weekly basis, teaching everything
from basic woodworking to more advanced furniture building, from novice pottery to gas welding and candelabra design. They also hosts events monthly, inviting people to come and meet the artists, have a glass of wine and do some on-site shopping.
EVENT SPACE AND CATERING
The Florentine is a beautiful historic building in downtown Birmingham. It is an icon commonly referred to as “Birmingham’s most beautiful building.” After undergoing multimillion dollar renovations the Florentine is once again a beacon of elegance and charm, making it the perfect setting for your next event!
The Florentine boasts two distinct event spaces – The Cafe and The Ballroom – which can be rented together or separately. All events at The Florentine will be provided with the following:
- On Site Catering by Corretti Catering
- The Florentine to provide all alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages
- In House Floral and Décor by Florentine Designs
- In House Pastry Chef for all cakes and desserts
- On Site Day-Of Event Coordinators
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