Sloss
Real Estate Group
The
Young and Vann Building, now known as the Center for Regional
Planning and Design, is Sloss Real Estate Group’s
newest urban redevelopment. Sloss is well known for projects
that focus on historic preservation and top-quality redevelopment
in Birmingham’s urban core.
To
Cathy Crenshaw, the President of Sloss Real Estate, this
project was especially significant: “Working with
planners, architects, and designers to create a working
environment that fulfilled their needs and values was both
challenging and satisfying.”
Sloss
Real Estate’s projects include One Federal Place,
a new eleven-story Class-A office building designed to blend
in with the more historic structures around it; the Martin
Biscuit Building, built during the Depression to diversify
Birmingham’s economy, now outfitted with IT infrastructure
to serve the needs of technology-based firms; Pepper Place,
the heart of Birmingham’s design district and home
to the city’s urban Farmers’ Market; and Park
Place, a Hope VI redevelopment of 12 urban blocks in downtown
Birmingham.
Sloss
saw great potential in the 28,000 square foot Young &
Vann Building. After purchasing the structure in 2002, Sloss
began a $3 million renovation, creating headquarters for
the Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham,
Region 2020, and the Auburn Studio. Sloss and these tenants
worked with architect Chris Engel of Goodwyn Mills and Cawood
on the design of the three-story building. Stone Building
Company was the construction contractor. Working together,
these groups have transformed a century-old warehouse into
the Center for Regional Planning and Design. Joining them
soon will be the Housing Initiative for Central Alabama,
the Southern Organizing Coop, CommuteSmartRideshare/Traffic
Safety, and Scenic Alabama. Only two vacant spaces remain
in the building.
For more information, contact:
Sloss Real Estate Group, Inc.
Tim Blair – (205) 802-2100
Goodwyn
Mills and Cawood
Chris Engel – (205) 879-4462
Stone
Building Company
Bill Stone – (205) 328-8300
