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
• Cascade Parc, affordable new homes in East Lake by Habitat for Humanity
• Founders Station, redevelopment of McAdory Building and Caldwell-Milner Building into a residential and commercial condominium project by Orchestra Partners
• 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)
  • Redevelopment of the Powell Avenue Steam Plant and adjacent Block 113C by Alabama Power Company
• 20 Midtown, Phase 3 apartments, by RGS Properties and Scott M. Bryant & Co.
• 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 Late 2017
• UAB School of Nursing Building redevelopment, slated for completion in Spring 2018
• 12-story, 1,500 space parking deck (2019) and 6-story, 115,000 square-foot medical office building (2020) for Children's Hospital on the block bounded by 3rd and 4th Avenue South and 16th and 17th Streets. Designed by Williams-Blackstock and built by Brasfield & Gorrie for $54 million. (report)

Proposed

• 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
• Hilton Curio Collection Hotel Homewood
• Homewood Office Plaza at Woodcrest Place
• Innovation District
• Lakeview Green, mixed-use building at former W. C. Davis School site in Lakeview. 30 condos, 73 apartments, semi-public green space, plus retail/restaurant
• 17-story, 196-unit apartment and retail tower at 20th Street South and 10th Avenue South. Proposed by The Opus Group with conceptual design by Myefski Architects. (report)
• Villas at Titusville, 164-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
• A new building for the UAB College of Arts and Sciences on the southwest corner of the UAB Campus Green. Construction is expected to begin in 2018. The building is expected to have 116,000 sq. ft. and cost $39.5 million.
• Redevelopment of the Slossfield Community Center as a Salvation Army Worship and Community Outreach Center.
• The Denham, redevelopment of former Merchants & Manufacturers Terminal at 1143 1st Avenue South for 65-66 apartments and 86,000 square feet of retail/office.

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)
• $40 million renovation of the Ramsay-McCormack Building in Ensley for the Birmingham Municipal Court, Birmingham Police Department and Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service headquarters.
• Daniel Payne Legacy Village
• Domed stadium
• Replacement for the Liberty National Building (12 stories) (announced October 2010 by Corporate Realty Development and again in May 2017 by Liberty Redemption LLC)
• 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
• Redevelopment of Brookwood Village by Cypress Equities.

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