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.
The building was sold to Cypress Equities in 2014 as part of the larger retail complex. The office building itself was sold in 2016 to Preferred Apartment Communities of Atlanta, Georgia for $49.8 million.
Tenants
- Colonial Properties Trust consolidated its Birmingham-area staff of about 150 people into the building.
- Law firm Johnston Barton Proctor & Powell moved out of the Regions-Harbert Plaza and occupy 40,000 square feet of the new building. The firm closed in 2014
- Merrill Lynch Wealth Management
- Kinder Morgan
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- 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." The 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." The Birmingham News
- Cooper, Lauren B. (January 26, 2009) "Brasfield & Gorrie earns LEED for Brookwood office complex." Birmingham Business Journal
- Godwin, Brent (September 29, 2016) "Investor paid $49M for Brookwood office building." Birmingham Business Journal