2170 Highland Avenue

2170 Highland Avenue is a two-story office building on Highland Avenue in the Five Points South area of Birmingham. It was originally built in 1961 as the Travelers Building and housed the local offices of the Travelers Insurance Companies.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s the building housed the Dick Dawson Insurance Agency. From the late 1980s to the late 1990s Complete Health occupied the entire building.

The building was heavily remodeled in 1999 for the offices of Donald Watkins' Alamerica Bank. Watkins formed the First Highland Group to develop the property. An adjoining vacant house was torn down at that time for additional parking. Southpace Properties is the building manager.

On September 1, 2013 First Highland defaulted on the mortgage for the property and quickly filed for bankruptcy protection to negotiate to prevent foreclosure. The Starwood Property Trust of Greenwich, Connecticut acquired the building through a newly-formed LLC in 2017.

In 2018 the property was acquired by CW Holdings and Vulcan View Partners. Matt Kilgore announced that Iron Mountain Insurance and Iron Mountain Investments would relocate to the building.

Tenants

Alamerica Bank Suite 100 The Children's Bank First Highland Group Haley-Bradford LLC Highland Virtual Suites (2009-) JENNRO/Jefferson County Voter Education and Registration PAC (former) Lift PAC Perkins Law Firm Safety Products Resources LLC South Perry PAC Southern Latino Communications LLC Spurling & Associates (former) Urbane Development LLC Voter News Network Watkins Group PAC Donald Watkins Jr, State Farm Insurance (2012-) Watters Group (former) WS Aviation, LLC Travelers Insurance Companies (1964) Suite 100-A NMI Mortgage Funding Suite 101 Lambert Record Center Suite 102 Janify Carpet Cleaning Suite 104 Rachel Abigail Herrin, attorney Suite 107 Divine Healthcare Services Suite 113 Lumen Interactive Suite 115 Palmer, Meadows & Howell (former)

Suite 120 Capstone Strategic Partners Suite 124 All The Way Entertainment Suite 200 Masada Resource Group (former) Suite 201 Investors Diversified Services (1964) Investors Mutual Inc. (1964) Investors Selective Fund (1964) Investors Stock Fund (1964) Investors Syndicate of America (1964) Investors Syndicate Life Insurance & Annuity Co. (1964) Investors Variable Payment Fund (1964) Investors Intercontinental Fund (1964) Suite 202 Allied Concord Financial Corp. (1964) Allied Building Credits (1964) Suite 205 Greenwood & Co. insurance adjustors (1964) Suite 250 Arcadis (formerly Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.) Other Hudson Law Firm (former) Strada Professional Services (former) Donald Watkins

References

• Polk's Birmingham (Jefferson County, Ala.) City Directory (1964) Richmond, Virginia: R. L. Polk & Co.
• Tomberlin, Michael (October 29, 2013) "Donald Watkins gets time to refinance or sell Highland Avenue office building or face foreclosure." The Birmingham News
• Coker, Angel (July 25, 2018) "Former Alamerica Bank building purchased by local investment groups." Birmingham Business Journal