9th Avenue South
Ninth Avenue South is a largely discontinuous east-west avenue through Birmingham's Southside community, primarily the UAB campus. Additional sections exist to the east as residential streets in the Red Mountain, Woodlawn, and Crestwood communities.
The westernmost portion of the road is a two-block section between 6th Street and 8th Street South, just south of Interstate 65. The road is then interrupted by various UAB athletic fields and some "superblocks" on campus before resuming as a dead end stub east of the UAB Campus Green and west of 16th Street South, between the UAB Campus Recreation Center and The Commons on the Green. It continues from there to 20th Street South where the road continues east as 8th Court South. What is now 9th Avenue crosses between 20th and Richard Arrington Boulevard (21st Street South) approximately 300 feet south, a street that was originally known as Quinlan Avenue. The road then moves back north approximately 150 feet from Richard Arrington to 23rd Street South. It then shifts another approximately 150 feet north to run through Southtown Court before ending at the Elton B. Stephens Expressway right of way.
Originally, 9th Avenue extended straight through from 23rd Street to 26th Street. It appears the two blocks inside Southtown Court were shifted north when that project was constructed.
Another section of 9th Avenue South, formerly called West Alabama Avenue, picks up at 79th Place South in South East Lake. It continues northeastward, with a job at 81st Street South, to 85th Street South.
Notable locations
- For an alphabetical list of locations, see the 9th Avenue South category.
Glen Iris
- 6th Street South intersection (south only; road terminus)
- Single family homes
- 7th Street South intersection (south only)
- St Elias Maronite Church
- Single family homes
- 8th Street South intersection (road terminus)
- former location of Behren's Park (1880s-1890s)
- former location of Magic City Chewing Gum Factory (1888)
Five Points South neighborhood
- 14th Street South (no access)
- UAB Campus Green (road terminus)
- 1408: former location of The Southside Rag offices (1969-1970)
- 1500: Former site of the original Blazer Hall
- UAB Campus Recreation Center
- The Commons on the Green
- 1527: former location of Smolian International House (1985-1992)
- 16th Street South intersection
- 1604: Denman Hall
- 17th Street South intersection (south only)
- 1701: former location of University Optometric Group (-2019)
- 1714: UAB Learning Resources Center / Einstein Bros. Bagels (opened December 2010) / UAB Student Health & Wellness Center (opened 2014)
- former site of Hixson Hall
- 18th Street South intersection
- 19th Street South intersection
- 1906: former site of UAB Business Services Building (demolished in 1989)
- 1917 Clinic
- 1921: former site of Hogan's Hide-A-Way
- 20th Street South intersection (road does not align and continues east as 8th Court South)
- 2000: Southern Research Institute
- 2019: former location of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1959)
- 21st Street South (Richard Arrington, Jr Boulevard) intersection (road does not align; originally Quinlan Avenue)
- 22nd Street South intersection
Southside neighborhood
- 22nd Street South intersection
- 23rd Street South intersection (road does not align)
- 24th Street South intersection
- Southtown Court
- Elton B. Stephens Expressway right of way (road terminus)
South East Lake
- 83rd Street South intersects
- 8300: Lakewood Baptist Church