Riverwalk Village
Riverwalk Village, formerly the AmSouth Bank Headquarters at Riverchase, later Regions Bank Riverchase North Building (RCN) and Regions Bank Riverchase South Building (RCS) are a pair of joined 6-story office buildings totaling 460,000 square feet on a 90-acre parcel at 2050 Parkway Office Circle, off Riverchase Parkway in Hoover's Riverchase Office Park in northern Shelby County.
The buildings were designed as an administrative office and training center for AmSouth Bank. Lohan Associates Architects of Chicago, Illinois designed the buildings and collaborated with Nimrod Long & Associates landscape architects on the site development plan. The resulting scheme involved two separate office buildings on opposite sides of a ravine. They are connected by a bridge which housed a cafeteria pavilion. The buildings' circulation corridors and break-out areas overlook a waterfall which emerges below the dining bridge and feeds a man-made lake with walking trails around it. Construction was completed in 1995. The project was the first phase of a 1.3 million square-foot, 170-acre complex which included a bank operations center completed in 2002 on the banks of the Cahaba River to the north.
Parking areas on either side of the complex provide space for 1,500 vehicles, some of which is accommodated in two multi-level parking decks which are screened from view by terraced landscaping. The modern-style superstructures have polished granite cladding on the outside walls, with steel and glass curtain walls facing the interior landscape features. They are supported on "plinths" housing mechanical and storage areas which are clad in local fieldstone to blend with the wooded site.
In November 2006 AmSouth merged with Regions Bank. In 2023 Regions sold the North and South buildings to Healthcare Resources LLC, a development company owned by Robert Simon of Corporate Realty. That company partnered with the City of Hoover and the Hoover Healthcare Authority to redevelop the 90-acre site as the Riverwalk Health & Wellness Center, with housing and retail areas constructed nearby and sharing access to the center's lake and walking paths, and potential links to other recreational trails. Regions would continue to lease space in the North Building for administrative offices.
The Hoover Healthcare Authority, which had previously promoted the former Sears department store at the Riverchase Galleria as a new healthcare facility, worked with Healthcare Resources to plan a boutique wellness facility to anchor the project. Goodwyn Mills Cawood architects worked with Earl Swensson Associates of Nashville, Tennessee on the architectural plans. Another Corporate Realty affiliate, the Home Communities Company, was also involved in the development, with Brasfield & Gorrie as contractor.
References
- Anderson, Jon (June 28, 2023) "Hoover announces Riverwalk Village health care mixed-use development in Riverchase." Hoover Sun
- Thornton, William (June 28, 2023) "Hoover’s new 90-acre Riverwalk Village development includes health, wellness center." AL.com
- Parker, Illyshia (June 28, 2023) "Health, wellness mixed-use development slated for Riverchase." Birmingham Business Journal
External links
- AmSouth Bancorporation, Hoover, Alabama at lohanderson.com
- AmSouth Bank Headquarters at Riverchase at nimrodlong.com