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

• New UAB Residence Hall, see reference for Groundbreaking for new Residence Hall 2020
• CrossPlex Village
• HealthSouth headquarters building at Liberty Park
• Parkside Apartments, 107 apartments in Glen Iris
• 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.
• The Post, office redevelopment of the Birmingham Green Postal Station at 317 20th Street North.
• Printer's Corner, mixed use redevelopment of the "You Are Beautiful building at 201 18th Street South.
• 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.
• 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)
• A new building for the UAB College of Arts and Sciences on the southwest corner of the UAB Campus Green. Groundbreaking ceremony was on September 19, 2017 and the expected completion date is Summer 2019. The building will have 116,000 sq. ft. and cost $39.5 million.
• 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.

Proposed

• Residential, retail and office redevelopment of the vacant AT&T City Center, proposed by Varden Capital Properties and Tellus Partners of Georgia.
• Baker’s Row Student Housing, 7-story, 207-unit student apartment building with parking & retail on site of the Stacy Williams Co. building on 14th Street South at Railroad Park. Announced by Corporate Realty Development and Parallel Company of Austin, Texas.
• BJCC renovations and outdoor stadium, $294 million
• Chace Lake Office Center
• CityWalk BHAM, public use areas under the replaced I-59/20 downtown bridge decks, between 15th Street North and 25th Street North, to be completed in early 2021.
• Collegiate Hall Development
• Adaptive reuse of the Department of Revenue Building at 2024 3rd Avenue North by Shannon Waltchack
• 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
• Birmingham Civil Rights Movement National Park, with potential headquarters at the A. G. Gaston Motel
• Redevelopment of the Slossfield Community Center as a Salvation Army Worship and Community Outreach Center.
• Redevelopment of the former Carraway Hospital for residential, hotel, entertainment, office and retail, proposed by Corporate Realty Development

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.
• Box Row, retail/office on 4100 block of 3rd Avenue South
• 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.
• Trinity Heights, Berman Enterprises proposed mixed-use redevelopment of Trinity Medical Center site on Montclair Road. Plans were dropped in September 2018.

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
• Edgemon, Erin (October 28, 2018) "Before and after, old and new: These buildings are putting a new face on Birmingham" The Birmingham News
• Taunton, Yvonne (November 14, 2018) "Groundbreaking for new Residence Hall 2020 set for Nov. 15" UAB eReporter