List of current development proposals

This is a List of current development proposals in Birmingham. The list includes high rise and mid-rise projects as well as large multi-family developments and major new parks:

This list is incomplete and may never satisfy any subjective standard for completeness. You can help Bhamwiki by expanding it.

Under construction

• Birmingham Intermodal Facility, $30 million passenger terminal at 19th Street North and the Railroad Reservation/Morris Avenue
• Redevelopment of Brookwood Village by Cypress Equities.
• Cascade Parc, affordable new homes in East Lake by Habitat for Humanity
• Empire Hotel, redevelopment of the Empire Building as a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel. $60 million by Ascent Hospitality of Buford, Georgia. Opening January 2017
• Federal Reserve building renovation, $20 million retail & office renovation opening in early 2017
• Lane Parke (redevelopment of Mountain Brook Shopping Center and Park Lane Apartments for retail, office and residential use).
• Parkside Apartments, 107 apartments in Glen Iris
• Parkside District (around Railroad Park, Regions Field and the Negro Southern League Museum)
  • Flats on 4th, apartment building by Watts Realty at 1520 4th Avenue South / 300 16th Street South
  • Redevelopment of the Powell Avenue Steam Plant and adjacent Block 113C by Alabama Power Company
  • The Stockyard @ Railroad Park, apartments
• 20 Midtown, 36 apartments and 9,200 square feet of retail (including Starbucks Coffee and Chipotle), plus a 30,000 square foot Publix supermarket at the former Adamson Ford lot and Firestone building at the intersection of 20th Street and 3rd Avenue South. $30 million by RGS Properties and Scott M. Bryant & Co.
• Homewood Suites Five Points South, 7-story, $23 million hotel at former Five Points Music Hall site, November 2016
• Metropolitan Apartments, 262-unit, $40 million multifamily development by Bomasada Group of Houston, Texas on Block 441, between 29th and 30th Street South and 6th and 7th Avenues. Designed by Lord Aeck Sargent Architects of Atlanta, Georgia. Opening Spring 2017
• Pizitz building redevelopment. 143 apartments, 11,000 square feet of office space and 23,000 square feet of retail, $67 million by Bayer Properties and Stonehenge Capital of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• ServisFirst Bank headquarters office, Homewood, opening 2018
• Thomas Jefferson Hotel redevelopment as apartments
• Row 5 townhouses on Morris Avenue
• Redevelopment of the Parisian building for the regional offices of Gray Construction, opening late 2016
• UAB Football Operations Building and Legacy Field, opening July 2017
• UAB School of Nursing Building redevelopment, slated for completion in Spring 2018
• The Waites, 4-story $13.6 million apartment and retail redevelopment of the half-block occupied by the former Waite's building on the 700 block of Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard South, set to open May 2017

Proposed

• Avondale Works, office campus, 1st Avenue North
• BJCC renovations and outdoor stadium, $294 million
• Box Row, retail/office on 4100 block of 3rd Avenue South
• Chace Lake Office Center
• CrossPlex Village
• Collegiate Hall Development
• Adaptive reuse of the Department of Revenue Building at 2024 3rd Avenue North by Shannon Waltchack
• HealthSouth headquarters building at Liberty Park
• Homewood Office Plaza at Woodcrest Place
• Innovation District
• Parkside Hilton Garden Inn and Home2Suites, Summer 2017
• Westwood Green, 280-unit mixed income housing (Hope VI) at the site of Loveman Village
• Redevelopment of Southtown Court housing community by the Housing Authority of Greater Birmingham
• Vesta Apartments, 318-unit apartment complex with 16-story tower with a retail tenant and 5-story block with a parking deck at 2173 Highland Avenue. Announced originally by Harbert Realty Services, now under development by Cortland Partners for an estimated $65-70 million. Designed by Smallwood Reynolds Stewart & Stewart. Set to be constructed by B. L. Harbert International beginning November 2017 and to open in mid-2018.
• Birmingham Civil Rights Movement National Park, with potential headquarters at the A. G. Gaston Motel

On hold or abandoned

• A. G. Gaston Freedom Center research center in the Civil Rights District, incorporating the A. G. Gaston Motel and possibly functioning as a U.S. Institute of Human Rights.
• Brown-Marx Building redevelopment by Hughes Capital Partners LLC
• Second office building at Brookwood Village
• Fourth office building at the Colonnade
• Crescent II (6 stories)
• Daniel Payne Legacy Village
• Domed stadium
• Replacement for the Liberty National Building (12 stories) by Corporate Realty Development (announced October 2010)
• L&N Parkside, new $30 million, 129-unit apartment building with 12,000 SF retail and 200-space parking deck at 4th Avenue South and 16th Street
• 2800 at 280, five-story office building at former Mountain Brook Inn site.
• 2826 Building (7 stories)
• Horizon Tower
• Piedmont, $25 million student housing development by Collegiate Hall Properties to be located at 209 13th Street South (announced 2005)
• Restoration Edgewood (300 condominiums + retail/office/parking)
• Multi-story parking deck at 19th Street and 1st Avenue South, to be built by public/private partnership

References

• Kent, Dawn (March 15, 2008) "Bayer Properties plans Southside office project." The Birmingham News
• Tomberlin, Michael (December 15, 2006) "City hotel projects edge to $100 million". The Birmingham News
• Blazer85. (May 6, 2006) "Post #308" Birmingham Development News. SkyscraperPage Forum. [1] - accessed May 8, 2006
• Tomberlin, Michael (November 14, 2009) "Birmingham-area office projects likely grounded until 2011." The Birmingham News
• Poe, Ryan (August 2, 2013) "Here's a look at Birmingham's apartment pipeline." Birmingham Business Journal