"Tit for TAP" In June, 2014, the City of Albertville was fortunate to receive a Transportation Alternatives Program, or, TAP, grant from the Alabama Department of of Transportation (ALDOT) for a downtown revitalization and streetscape project. The city's hope was that improvements made as part of the TAP project would make a once blighted area of downtown an attractive place for new businesses and restaurants to locate; and help those already in business, downtown, thrive. Per ALDOT's final approval of the master plan in 2016, work began with the state, as two state highways run through downtown Albertville. The Municipal Utilities Board (MUB-Albertville), to include AT&T, Charter Cable, and Farmers Telecommunications all played major roles in initial phases of work as all had infrastructure running through the downtown corridor. One of the key scopes of work for this particular project was burying the utilities that once ran overhead, in order to eventually re
Unofficial Blog of the City of Albertville, Alabama, proudly known as the Heart of Sand Mountain.