2222 Arlington
The 2222 building, originally the Bayer Properties building, is an office building constructed in 1976 for Bayer Properties at 2222 Arlington Avenue in Birmingham's Redmont Park neighborhood.
Bayer relocated to 2200 Magnolia Avenue in 2020. Former Bayer principal David Silverstein of FiveStone Group proposed in late 2019 to demolish the building along with the adjoining Sycamore Manor apartments in order to develop a new $80 10-story mixed-use project with a boutique hotel, luxury condominiums and a spa with the D&A Cos. of New York City.
That proposal was met with some backlash from neighborhood residents. The Birmingham Zoning Advisory Committee recommended not re-zoning the apartment property and applying an 80-foot height limit to the office parcel. In November 2020 Silverstein announced a smaller-scale $30–35 million proposal to renovate the existing office building for a new corporate headquarters tenant, and construct a new 30-unit condominium building alongside it.
References
- Van der Bijl, Hanno (September 10, 2019) "Developers eye $80M mixed-use project, boutique hotel for Redmont Park." Birmingham Business Journal
- Van der Bijl, Hanno (September 12, 2019) "Why a NYC firm is teaming with Bham CRE vet on a mixed-use project, boutique hotel for Redmont." Birmingham Business Journal
- Van der Bijl, Hanno (October 25, 2019) "What’s the latest on Redmont boutique hotel, condo project?." Birmingham Business Journal
- Van der Bijl, Hanno (November 13, 2020) "Developers switch gears with Redmont project to focus on office, condos." Birmingham Business Journal