Status of Historic Preservation Tax Credits for Projects Across Alabama - BirminghamWatch

Status of Historic Preservation Tax Credits for Projects Across Alabama

This list contains projects that have been approved for tax credits and the amounts received, approved and requested for each project.

October 15, 2015

 

PROJECTS APPROVED FOR TAX CREDITS AMOUNT RECEIVED, APPROVED, REQUESTED
1. Redmont Hotel (Birmingham) $2.5 million
2. 951 Government Street Building (Mobile) $1.25 million
3. Fort McClellan Barracks (Anniston) $3,786,961
4. Norton-Cochrane-Fitts Residence (Tuscaloosa) $43,750
5. First National Bank of Tuscaloosa (Tuscaloosa)* $2,451,503
6. Edwards Brothers Furniture Co. Building (Mobile) $125,000
7. Florentine Building (Birmingham)* $1,025,538
8. Pizitz (Birmingham) $5 million
9. Thomas Jefferson Hotel (Birmingham) $5 million
10. Tuscaloosa VA Building (Tuscaloosa)* $1,174,630
11. Davis House (Huntsville) $22,500 granted (additional $11,250 requested)
12. Avondale Fire Station #10 (Birmingham) $75,000
13. Hunter House (Mobile)* $48,933
14. Carson Place (Tuscaloosa) $18,750
15. Empire Building (Birmingham) $5 million
16. First Federal Savings and Loan Building (Birmingham) $1,362,500
17. Empire Parking Garage (Birmingham) $62,200
18. Temerson Building (Tuscaloosa) $233,750
19. Dortch-Hunter Residence (Mobile)* $46,209
20. Age Building (Birmingham) $187,500
21. Drish House (Tuscaloosa) $92,500
22. Anniston Hardware Co. Building (Anniston) $62,500
23. Turner-Todd Motor Co. Building (Mobile) $1 million
24. Mack Truck Garage Building (Birmingham) $281,250
25. Admiral Semmes Hotel (Mobile) $2.55 million
26. Bell Building (Montgomery) $5 million
27. Howell School (Dothan) $1,822,500
28. Freeny Building (Mobile) $75,000
29. C.L. Ruth & Sons Jewelry Co. Building (Montgomery) $187,500
30. Brown-Marx Building (Birmingham) $5 million
31. Shepherd-Sloss Building (Birmingham) $270,688
32. Lyric Theater Building (Birmingham) $2,435,000 granted ($393,750 more requested)
33. Cain Furniture Co. (Birmingham) $1,662,500
34. Old Shell Road School (Mobile) $750,000
35. Russell School (Mobile) $750,000
36. Powell School (Birmingham) $1,282,179
37. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (B’ham branch) $5 million
38. Jefferson Davis Apartments (Montgomery) $1,237,500
39. Emanuel-Staples-Pake Building (Mobile) $1,136,159 granted ($113,841 more requested)
40. Decatur Post Office (Decatur) Requested $230,750
41. Stuart-Hostetter House (Montgomery) Requested $27,400
42. Shady Dell (Tuscumbia) Requested $31,250
43. St. Francis Street Methodist Church (Mobile) Requested $375,000
44. Orlando Apartments (Birmingham) Requested $40,000
45. Meyer Bros. Gen. Store-Robertson Banking (Demopolis)* Requested $56,578
46. 1501 Dearing Place (Tuscaloosa) Requested $50,000
* means project completed

Birmingham’s Florentine Building, at the intersection of Richard Arrington Jr. Boulevard and Second Avenue North downtown, was renovated at a cost of about$2.5 million, bringing back to life a structure best-known locally as the building that was never finished. Intended to be one of the city’s first skyscrapers, construction on. it was halted during the Great Depression – at two stories – and it was never completed. Photo by Walt Stricklin

The decorative facades of  downtown Birmingham’s Florentine Building were preserved  when the structure was renovated at a cost of about$2.5 million. Photo by Walt Stricklin