The Small Stuff: October 2010

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• After nearly a decade of a joint partnership between Chattanooga-based CBL and Birmingham-based Colonial Properties Trust, Parkway Place is now fully owned by CBL. 
• Huntsville recieved a $620,000 federal grant for transit improvements. The money will go towards improving bus shelters and maintenance facilities. 
• 301 East Holmes finally has a tenant-- a salon-- for at least part of their ground-floor retail space, which has sat vacant since the downtown condo project's opening in 2006. 
• Decatur is planning to remove a downtown surface parking lot and replace it with a "pocket park."
• Pope John Paul II Catholic High School opened its new campus on Old Madison Pike.