From time to time, in this line of wor,k interesting emails will land in your inbox. Mixed in among the hate mail, the fan mail and the creepy ads trying to sell me a product I was just talking about, these interesting emails have a tendency to stand out.

It’s hard to explain, but when a good one lands, you just sort of know it. It has a feel to it. And that was the case a couple of weeks ago, when one dropped into my basket promising crazy info on a development project in Hoover—something called the Riverwalk Village.

Now, ordinarily, emails about development projects don’t stand out, because, let’s be honest, there is almost always something shady going on with any city’s major development projects. Finding it, proving it and relaying it in a readable format is another matter, however.

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