Brokers Building

The Brokers Building is a two-story, 50-foot by 140-foot brick commercial building on the southeast corner of Block 96, northwest of the intersection of 17th Street and 1st Avenue North. It was built in the 1920s on the former site of the Jeffers & Thomas lumber yard and the Washington Hotel.

In 2019 an affiliate of the Dexter, Missouri-based investment company Sixty West acquired the Brokers Building from Scruggs Investment Co. for $850,000. In 2020 the company applied for a Historic Preservation Tax Credit to help finance a potential redevelopment of the building.

Tenants

• 1st Avenue North:
  • 1628: Imperial Candy Co. (1925), B. I. T. Cafe (1929), Term Financial Co. loans (1964), Erika's Beauty Unlimited
  • 1630–1632: J. F. Day Screen & Weatherstrip Co. (1938), Z's Restaurant dining room (2011–2020)

• 17th Street North:
  • 100–102: J. F. Day Screen & Weatherstrip Co. (1938), Z's Restaurant dining room (2011–2020)
  • 104: building entrance, Z's Restaurant (2008–2020)
  • 106: Southern Culvert Co. sales office (1938), Partners Tax & Accounting
  • 108: Burnie Clifton novelties / Alabama State Tax Commission (1938), Plum Bar (2015–2020)
  • 112: Turner Printing Co. (1938), Birmingham Box Lunch, Visions Hair Salon (2015–2020)
  • 114: Associated Sales Agency storage (1938), Terri's Big Top (1970s), Dirty Ash's Urban Lounge (2011–2020)

• upper floors:
  • New Washington Hotel
  • Southern Films Inc. (1924)
  • Southern Testing Laboratories (1925)

References

• Van der Bijl, Hanno (May 21, 2020) "First Avenue North property owner applies for federal historic tax credits." Birmingham Business Journal