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==Tenants== | ==Tenants== | ||
===original tenants=== | |||
* [[Lane Drugs]] | * [[Lane Drugs]] | ||
* beauty parlor | * beauty parlor | ||
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* florist | * florist | ||
===later tenants=== | |||
* [[Food Fair]] | |||
* [[Zayre]] | |||
* [[Five Points West Library]] | |||
* [[Wall Street Deli|Stand N' Snack]] | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
* "[http://www.birminghamrewound.com/features/1941-04.htm Huge new shopping center to be built near fairgrounds]" (April 1941) ''Birmingham News'' - via [[Birmingham Rewound]] | * "[http://www.birminghamrewound.com/features/1941-04.htm Huge new shopping center to be built near fairgrounds]" (April 1941) ''Birmingham News'' - via [[Birmingham Rewound]] | ||
Revision as of 23:38, 1 April 2011
The Five Points West Shopping City is a large shopping center developed in 1941 by A. Page Sloss of Shepherd-Sloss Realty at Five Points West. At the time, the 24-acre project was announced as the largest private development in the region since 1925.
The Thomas Drive-In restaurant was the first new building, constructed on the extreme west corner of the site. The main retail strips were designed by James Gatling, who also designed Shepherd-Sloss' Plaza Stores on Highland Avenue. Construction of the first 400-foot x 800-foot building was begun by the Marbury-Moriss Construction Company on April 15, with the first stores opening on September 1. A 400-space parking lot was laid out to serve the development and a second building, 175 feet by 140 feet, was planned to break ground that summer.
Tenants
original tenants
- Lane Drugs
- beauty parlor
- Utopia Cleaners
- Scott-Burr Stores
- A & P Supermarket
- Helen's Candies
- barber shop
- florist
later tenants
References
- "Huge new shopping center to be built near fairgrounds" (April 1941) Birmingham News - via Birmingham Rewound