Highland Park

The Sheraton Apartments located in Highland Park neighborhood

Post #12 of #20: I’m reflecting on twenty years of personal and professional experiences in Birmingham and beyond. Visit www.medium.com/HonestlyEd to read the full #20For20 series.

You always remember your first.

First job. First love. First home. For better or worse, these experiences mean something to you. They shaped you and may have even been a part of your identity.

Moving to Birmingham after graduating from Alabama State University was a big deal for me. And, I commuted from Montgomery for the first six months before finally moving to Birmingham in February in 2001.

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I still remember the process of searching for an apartment. I used Apartment Finders to help me locate a place I could afford with a minimal commute to my job in Downtown Birmingham. One of the apartments shown was Sheraton Apartments on Highland Avenue in a historic neighborhood just south of downtown Birmingham.

I knew this building. Just a few years earlier I had visited my friends Lonnie and Ray whom were living there as roommates. By the time I arrive they were both still living…