Parkside Apartments
Parkside Apartments (formerly called LIV Parkside) is a 228-unit apartment and retail development on the 1700 block of 1st Avenue South, facing Railroad Park. The complex includes secured parking for tenants, some retail space on the ground floor, a fitness studio and a second-story outdoor pool and patio overlooking the park.
The developer for the project was LIV Development, headed by Robb Crumpton. The architects for the building were Charlan Brock & Associates of Maitland, Florida with landscape design by Nimrod Long & Associates of Birmingham. The $30 million project was built by Hoar Construction.
The complex opened in December 2015. The Red Cat coffee shop opened on the ground floor on April 1, 2016 and Cosecha Urban Kitchen opened on the corner of 18th Street in January 2017.
In January 2017 the complex was sold to Birmingham Parkside Apartments LP for $40.1 million. In January 2018, a fire broke out on in the floor area between units 520 and 620. Several units suffered fire, smoke and water damage.
Retail tenants
- Suite 101: Red Cat Coffee House (Kirk Summers & Erin Isbell 2016–)
- Suite 105: Planet Smoothie
- Suite 133: Parkside Apartments leasing office
- Suite 135: Cosecha Urban Kitchen (Justin White & John Green January 2017–), The Parked Kitchen (Justin White & John Green 2017), Mile End Delicatessen (2019–2020), Hero Doughnuts (Wil Drake & Jason Wallis 2021–)
References
- Tomberlin, Michael (August 28, 2013) "$30 million apartment, retail project to be built across from Railroad Park." The Birmingham News
- Godwin, Brent (January 5, 2016) "One of Parkside's major projects is now open." Birmingham Business Journal
- Robinson, Carol (January 17, 2018) "Several units damaged in 3-alarm fire at downtown Birmingham's Parkside Apartments." The Birmingham News