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Revision as of 15:21, 26 June 2022
Brasfield & Gorrie is a large privately-held construction firm based at 3021 7th Avenue South in Birmingham's Lakeview district.
Thomas Brasfield founded his own Thomas C. Brasfield Company in 1921, with offices at 4109 Court S Ensley. He later moved the business to 3021 6th Avenue South in Lakeview. In 1964 he sold it to Miller Gorrie, who kept Brasfield's name and then added his own name to it when he moved a block south in 1967.
Brasfield & Gorrie grew steadily over the next decades and expanded from typical commercial and institutional buildings into hospitals, factories and water treatment plants, with a specialty in reinforced concrete construction. In the 1980s the company opened branch offices in several Southern cities. Gorrie's son, Jim became president in 1995 and CEO in 2011.
Currently, Brasfield & Gorrie has annual revenues of $2.3 billion and employs 2,600 workers at eight offices in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. In 2013 it ranked as Birmingham's fourth largest private company.
Major projects
Birmingham area
- Exchange Security Bank, Green Springs Highway branch, 1964
- Lloyd Noland Hospital expansion, 1965
- John C. Yarbrough Community Center, 1967
- Medical Center East, 1969
- Birmingham Green streetscape improvements, 1973
- Denman Hall (UAB), 1973
- Vulcan Life building, 1973
- Birmingham Parking Authority Deck 2, 1976
- Camp Hall (UAB), 1980
- Park Place Tower, 1980
- Princeton Towers I, 1980
- Financial Center, 1982
- Arlington Business Center, 1984
- Hugo L. Black Federal Courthouse, 1987
- Pickwick Plaza, 1987
- Linn Park renovations, 1988
- AmSouth-Harbert Plaza, 1989
- Arlington Crest, 1991
- Kirklin Clinic, 1992
- Ryals Public Health Building, 1996
- AT&T City Center renovations, 1998
- Energen Plaza, 1998
- McWane Center, 1998
- Visionland, 1998
- Blount Hall (UAB), 2001
- Brookwood Village renovations, 2001
- One Federal Place, 2002
- Emergency repairs to Malfunction Junction, 2002 & 2004
- Homewood Middle School, 2005
- Birmingham News building, 2006
- Brasfield & Gorrie building expansion, 2006
- Brookwood Office Center, 2007
- Colonial Promenade Alabaster, 2007
- Cooper Green Mercy Hospital renovations, 2008
- OrthoSports Center, St Vincent's Medical Center, 2008
- Birmingham Parking Authority Deck 3 expansion, 2009
- UAB Women and Infants Center, 2010
- Birmingham CrossPlex, 2011
- 29 Seven, 2012
- Mountain Brook Municipal Complex, 2013
- Uptown, 2013
- Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport expansion, 2014
- U.S. Treasury building, 2014
- HealthSouth digital hospital/Grandview Medical Center, 2003, 2016
- Red Mountain Theatre Arts Campus, 2021
- Eastwood Amazon Distribution Center, 2021
- Protective Stadium, 2021
Other locations
- Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia, 1992
- AT&T Building (a.k.a. the Batman Building), Nashville, Tennessee, 1994
- Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta, Georgia, 2005
References
- Atkins, Leah Rawls (2002) The Building of Brasfield & Gorrie. Birmingham: Brasfield & Gorrie
- Tomberlin, Michael (June 29, 2014) "Building for a half-century: Brasfield & Gorrie has spent 50 years constructing Birmingham and beyond." The Birmingham News
External links
- Brasfield & Gorrie website