23rd Street South

Twenty-third Street South (23rd Street South) is a two-way north-south street in Birmingham's Southside neighborhood, running south from the 1st Avenue South to Highland Avenue.

23rd Street South resumes to the south of the Elton B. Stephens Expressway, where part of it functions as an offramp for northbound traffic going to Highland Avenue. The street, formerly called Whittaker Street, bends to the south, crossing Arlington Avenue. Another sections runs through Mountain Brook's English Village, between 20th Avenue South and Peacock Lane, one block west of Cahaba Road.

Notable locations

For an alphabetical list of locations, see the 23rd Street South category.

Southside / Five Points South

• street begins at the Powell Avenue (abandoned)
  • west side:
    • Pullman Flats (built 2006), NowVision Eye Care
  • east side:
    • Hardwick Company steel fabricator

• 1st Avenue South/Rotary Trail intersects ("The Cut" for Seaboard Air Line Railroad)
• west side:
  • • 100-108: Newspaper Union Building (built 1891), former location of American Newspaper Union (1891-1908), Magic City Casket Company (1904-), Child Furniture Co., Moore Co., SoMo Galleries (1989-), Golden Construction (2005-)
    • 110: 110 23rd Street South (built c. 1907), Simonton Swaika Black Architects, Apex Construction Partners, LibertyFi (2017-)
    • 120: BEBCO Warehouse, Davis Architects (2007-)
  • east side:
    • 101: former location of Amzi Godden Co. seed distribitors
    • 121: parking lot

• 2nd Avenue South intersects
  • west side:
    • 200: Birmingham Electric Battery Company (BEBCO)
    • 220: Bennett's Motor World auto service
  • east side:
    • 201: former location of Tom Williams Automotive detail shop, J. K. Terry & Co. landscape design (2009-), AutoMotivs auto dealer, Birmingham Broker auto dealer
    • 221: Reggie D's Auto Sales

• 3rd Avenue South intersection (one way west)
  • west side:
    • 300:
    • 308: 23rd Street VIP Center
    • 320: Birmingham Broker
  • east side:
    • 301: Budget Truck Rental
    • 331: 23rd Street Baptist Church

• 4th Avenue South intersects (one way east)
  • west side:
    • 400: PetNet Solutions pharmacy
    • 420: Just Happy Hounds dog day care, former location of Confederate Motors
  • east side:
    • 401: Green Garage auto service
    • 421:

• 5th Avenue South intersection
  • west side:
    • 500: WorkPlay
    • 520: Watkins Auto Body auto repair
  • east side:
    • 501: Sherwin-Williams painting supplies
    • 521: Tom Dooley Wholesale Auto

• 6th Avenue South intersects
  • west side:
    • 600: SJ Enterprises & Tool Solutions
    • 608: LeJoy Uniforms
    • 620: parking lot, former location of Birmingham Linen Supply Co. (1934)
  • east side:
    • 601: #1 Sound & Detailing
    • 621: Liberty Motors building (built 1957), UAB Studio Arts (2012-), former location of Vulcan Lincoln-Mercury, Bart Starr Lincoln-Mercury (1970s), Howard Garrett & Associates engineers (1985-), Michael Scott Kendrick physician, Independent Insurance Agents (2004-2010)

• 7th Avenue South intersects
  • west side:
    • parking lot, former location of 3rd Presbyterian Church (1880s)
    • 716: former location of Commercial Graphics
    • 720: Healing Waters
    • 726: Domino's Pizza
    • 728: Easy Money
  • east side:
    • parking lot
    • 721: Express Oil Change/Tire Engineers

• University Boulevard intersects
  • west side:
    • 800: Southern Research Institute parking lot
  • east side:
    • 801: Southtown Court housing project (built 1941)
    • 803: former location of Sydney Bryant restaurant (1928)

• 9th Avenue South intersection
  • west side:
    • 900: Southtown Convenience Store
    • 910: Vogue Cleaners
  • east side:

• 9th Court South intersects (east only)
  • west side:
    • 914–916: Magnolia Point commercial building (built 1930s)
  • east side:
    • 959: shotgun house
    • 961: shotgun house

• 10th Avenue South (east) / Magnolia Avenue (west) intersect
  • west side:
    • 1000–1002: Magnolia Point Building (built 1917)
      • 1000: former location of Cave 9 (2002-2009)
    • 1006: Alabama Art Supply
  • east side:
    • 1025: Magnolia Financial Center, former location of the Energy Pointe Institute (2003-2004)

• 10th Court South intersects
  • west side:
    • 1110: Spartan Value Investors

• 10th Terrace South intersects (east only)
  • west side:
    • former location of Gorgas Hospital Hotel (1922-1934), Seale Harris Clinic (1934-)
    • Highland Plaza Condominiums (built 1924)

• street spans the Elton B. Stephens Expressway on the Highland Avenue overpass (completed 1967)

• Highland Avenue intersects (street ends)
  • Highland Towers apartments (built 1951)
  • Crescent Building
  • 1221: former location of Henry Badham residence

• Arlington Avenue intersects

Mountain Brook

• 20th Avenue South intersects
• 21st Avenue South intersects
• English Village Lane intersects
• Peacock Lane intersects