Liberty Park

Liberty Park is a 4,000-acre residential and mixed-use subdivision in Vestavia Hills located between Sicard Hollow Road and the Cahaba River south of Irondale and east of Mountain Brook. Developed as a joint venture with Drummond Company and Torchmark, successor of the Liberty National Life Insurance Company the lent the development its name. The entrance to the property from I-459 is marked with the 1/5th-scale Statue of Liberty that formerly crowned the Liberty National Building in downtown Birmingham.

The development's "Urban Center", near the I-459 exit, was developed primarily by Stonegate Realty and includes large office buildings and retail centers. The residential section, with more than 2,000 single-family homes, spreads eastward toward Grants Mill Road. The highest-value estate homes occupy the forested slopes around the private Old Overton Golf Club and are protected by gated entrances, while more densely-sited homes and apartments are clustered along Liberty Parkway on the south edge of the site.

The developers had originally hoped that the adjacent city of Mountain Brook would annex the development, but residents opposed the idea. Instead, they turned to Vestavia Hills, whose limits, before the annexation of Cahaba Heights, were nearly three miles distant. A state law passed in 1992 allowed for the controversial annexation and survived a legal challenge mounted by the City of Birmingham which reached the Alabama Supreme Court in 1995.

Urban Center

• Birmingham Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
• Central Alabama Boy Scout Headquarters
• 1000 Urban Center Drive
• 1200 Urban Center Drive
• 1400 Urban Center Drive
• 1500 Urban Center Drive
• Riverview Center retail center
• Urban Center Commons, office condos
• Hilton Garden Inn Liberty Park

Liberty Park residential communities

gated communities

• Old Overton Estates
• Kings Mountain Ridge
• Tartan Glen
• ClubRidge
• Old Overton River Estates
• Old Overton Ridge Estates

non-gated communities

• Alston Crest, town-homes
• Alston Meadow
• Boulder Lake
• Hampden Place
• Heritage Hills
• Paxton Place
• Vestlake Cove
• Vestlake Hills
• Vestlake Ridge
• Vestlake Village
• Vestview

apartment communities

• Colonial Grand at Liberty Park

Other facilities

• Liberty Park Elementary School
• Liberty Park Middle School
• Liberty Park Sports Complex
• Liberty Crossings United Methodist Church

References

• Wilkinson, Kaija (April 30, 2006) "Liberty Park on verge of big revival." Birmingham Business Journal

External links

• Liberty Park website
• Liberty Park at "The Higley 1000"