Children’s of Alabama will begin construction of a parking deck and office building on the 1600 block of 4th Avenue South in August.

On Thursday, July 27, Children’s Board of Trustees approved the construction of a 12-story parking deck that will provide 1,500 parking spaces and will be located between 16th and 17th Streets on the Children’s campus. The lot is currently used for surface parking for Children’s employees. Once construction is completed in Spring 2019, a six-story, 115,000-square foot office building will be on the 4th Avenue side of the project and will house non-clinical support services, many of which have been located off Children’s main campus since construction began on the Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children building in 2008.

Brasfield & Gorrie was chosen as construction manager and Williams Blackstock Architects as architect for the project, which is estimated to cost $54 million for construction.

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