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 The
City of Tuscaloosa is located in West Alabama
on the Black Warrior River, 57 miles southwest of
Birmingham. Tuscaloosa is the county seat of 1,340
square mile Tuscaloosa County, which also includes the
municipalities of Northport and Brookwood. The City's
83,052 inhabitants (2006) represent over half of
Tuscaloosa County's 171,159 population. The home of the
University of Alabama,
Stillman College,
Shelton State
Community College, and several large hospitals,
Tuscaloosa looms large in the educational and
institutional infrastructure of Alabama. Its diversified
industrial base is anchored by the 1,900 employee
Mercedes-Benz M-Class SUV assembly plant which commenced
production in 1997. In 2005, Mercedes completed a $600 million
expansion that doubled its work force to 4,000 employees
and added another vehicle assembly line at the plant,
now 3 million square feet. In year 2007 Mercedes celebrated 10
years of production in the state.
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