Brookwood Office Center

Colonial Center is a $35.8 million, 160,000 square foot, 9-story office tower located immediately to the west of Brookwood Village. It was completed in late 2007 for Colonial Properties Trust.

The building features 10,000 square feet of ground floor specialty retail, marketed towards service-industry tenants as well as a four-story parking deck in the rear of the building. Other features include built-in wireless internet, a covered walkway connecting the building to Parisian, and redundant power feeds from two separate substations to reduce the likelihood of outages. The architect was Joe Trammell of Rule Joy Trammell + Rubio of Atlanta and the contractor was Brasfield & Gorrie.

In January 2009 the project earned silver certification from the U. S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.

Tenants

• Colonial Properties Trust consolidated its Birmingham-area staff of about 150 people into the new building.
• Law firm Johnston Barton Proctor & Powell moved out of the Regions-Harbert Plaza and occupy 40,000 square feet of the new building.
• Sonat relocated its 250 employees from the Regions Center.
• Joseph A. Banks clothier
• O'Henry's Coffees (opened 2009)

References

• Goodman, Sherri C. (April 21, 2006) "New building's design lures downtown law firm: 9-story tower set for Homewood." Birmingham News
• Wilkinson, Kaija. (April 21, 2006) "$36M Colonial office tower at Brookwood." Birmingham Business Journal
• Goodman, Sherri C. (January 27, 2007) "Sonat leaving downtown base." Birmingham News.
• Cooper, Lauren B. (January 26, 2009) "Brasfield & Gorrie earns LEED for Brookwood office complex." Birmingham Business Journal