Focus groups are a helpful way for researchers to assess the way people think or feel. Focus groups are helpful in gathering opinions and ideas on a particular subject. Surveys and questionnaires don't really have a way to capture these aspects. Focus groups are especially helpful with complicated topics or for instances when there isn't a lot of information already available. When people respond in a focus group, they are able to give a more elaborate explanation and answer. These can also be helpful in critiquing a new product or when people have conflicting viewpoints. Once you have these answers, opinions, and viewpoints you can make the correct adjustments for your product or service.
As we all know, there are vacant buildings and houses everywhere in the Birmingham metro area. Some of these have been condemned, deemed dangerous, are uninhabitable, etc. Some, however, have just simply been abandoned. Frozen in time. What do we do with these buildings? Continue to let them become an overgrown eyesore? I think revitalization is a great solution. I understand that this is an expensive option, but it is possible and it is happening all over. Cities all across America are developing plans to re-grow and reinvent their city, Birmingham included. In Huntsville, Stone Middle School was closed and put on the market in 2009. A developer bought it in 2014 and turned it into Campus 805, an entertainment venue. Basically, they turned the classrooms into bars, restaurants, and recreational spaces. There is an arcade on the main level, axe throwing on the second level, and beer vats that stand tall in the gymnasium. They also have a large green space outs...
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