Five Points West Library

The Five Points West Regional Library is located at 4812 Avenue W in the Five Points West neighborhood. The library, designed by Giattina Fisher Aycock, opened in 2004. The building includes half of the old Food Fair/Zayre store building, and the parking lot occupies the rest of the land. The old Zayre's is now a gravel lot. Also attatched to the library land is an old parking deck, whose basement that once contained a cinema, bowling alley, etc. as part of the now dilipidated Five Points West Shopping Center, which were remodeled into a Birmingham Fire & Rescue Training Center. Also the City of Brmingham's Department of Equipment Management has a fleet refueling station on the northwest corner of the property. The land is connected to several more acres of property owned by the city, including the Alabama State Fairgrounds and the Birmingham Fire & Rescue Service's Station No. 20.