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Incentives for Children’s of Alabama Campus Toyota-Mazda to See Expansion in Birmingham Plant Top $700M MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Alabama’s total incentive package to Toyota and Mazda will top $700 million after local incentives are added to what the state offered to land the companies’ new United States factory. The Huntsville City Council on Jan. 11 approved a $320 million local incentive package. That is in addition to $380 million announced by the state in tax abatements, investment rebates and the construction of a worker training facility. Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle said before the council vote that the joint-venture factory, which will employ about 4,000 people, will bring economic benefits to the region for generations. “If there ever was a slam dunk deal, this is a great one,” Battle said. The city’s offer to the Japanese auto manufacturers included providing the land, building a road to the factory and property tax abatements worth $107 million over 20 years Alabama’s commerce department had announced only the state’s share of incentives Jan 10 when company executives announced the decision to come to Alabama. The new plant in Huntsville — already a hub for the region’s budding aerospace industry — will produce 300,000 vehicles per year, a combination of the Toyota Corolla compact car and a new small crossover SUV from Mazda. Production is targeted to begin by 2021. Multiple states had competed for the project by the Japanese auto giants. “This is indeed a great day in Alabama,” an upbeat Gov. Kay Ivey said Jan. 10, flanked by company executives at a news conference in the state capital, Montgomery. Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield said Jan. 10 he believes the state is getting a “pretty good deal” considering the plant alone will create $5.2 billion in payroll over 20 years. “Not only that, it’s really hard to measure the positive impact that having companies create career opportunities like this and how that transforms families,” Canfield said. see FACTORY page 6
The Children’s Board of Trustees approved construction of the 12-story parking deck and 115,000-sq.-ft. office building last August.
By Lori Tobias
Construction is set to begin on a new office building and parking facility at the Children’s of Alabama campus in Birmingham on Fourth Avenue South. The Children’s Board of Trustees approved construction of the 12-story parking deck and 115,000-sq.-ft. office building last August. Brasfield & Gorrie is serving as the construction manager and Williams Blackstock Architects as the architect for the project, which is estimated to cost $54 million for construction. Previously, the lot was used for surface parking for Children’s employees and also was the site of a hospital warehouse. The warehouse was recently demolished and the parking lot vacated. “The demolition was conducted in standard fashion using a track-hoe, and went as planned,” said Brasfield & Gorrie Senior Project Manager Paul Garrick. “The demolition of the rest of the site, including the parking lot, will start at the beginning of the year once we mobilize for construction.” The parking deck will provide 1,500 parking spaces and CEG CORRESPONDENT
will be located between 16th and 17th streets on the Children’s campus. The six-story office building will be on the Fourth Avenue side of the project and will house nonclinical 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. The project is slated for completion in the Spring of 2019. “This project will help to relieve parking congestion on our campus,” said Mike McDevitt, Children’s executive vice president for facilities. “By adding this much-needed parking for staff, we can also dedicate space closer to the hospital itself for our patients’ families and visitors. There are many days, especially during cold and flu season, when our current parking is, quite frankly, inadequate. “Likewise, we expect the project to allow us to bring the more than 200 staff members currently housed off site back to campus, and, we hope, continue to contribute to the outstanding growth of Birmingham’s Parkside District.” see CHILDRENS page 6
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Construction of Two Projects to Occur Simultaneously CHILDRENS from page 1
Construction on the two projects will take place simultaneously, said Garrick. The two structures will be connected via a pedestrian bridge across 4th Avenue South to Children’s existing Park Place building and serve as a connector to all of Children’s Russell Campus facilities. The new construction will be served by Children’s existing Central Energy Plant (CEP) at the corner of 16th Street South and Fourth Avenue South. “The exterior of the office will be primarily glass and the exterior of the parking deck will be primarily perforated metal panels,” Garrick said. “The goal of both is to blend in with the new Children’s Hospital Main Building (Benjamin Russell Building). Designs are still being finalized for the interior of the building.” “We are pleased our Board of Trustees has committed to a project that will complete the Children’s campus and put us in the position to respond to the healthcare needs of Alabama’s children and their families for the next 10 to 20 years,” said Mike Warren, Children’s CEO and President. “Just five short years ago, Children’s completed our new facility, The Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children,” said Walker Jones, chair of Children’s Board of Trustees. “This impressive facility helped to change the Birmingham skyline and to reaffirm our commitment to downtown and the Medical Center District, and, in our opinion, became one of the catalysts helping to spur growth in the Parkside District.” Children’s campus facilities total more than 2 million sq. ft., making it the third largest pediatric medical facility in the country, according to a press release. In 2016, there were more than 676,000 outpatient visits and more than 15,000 inpatient admissions at Children’s. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) CEG
“The demolition was conducted in standard fashion using a track-hoe, and went as planned,” said Brasfield & Gorrie Senior Project Manager Paul Garrick.
Huntsville City Council Approves $320M Package FACTORY from page 1
Toyota and Mazda will join Mercedes, Honda and Hyundai in operating factories in Alabama. Alabama was already tied with Tennessee as the fifth-largest producer of vehicles in the U.S. last year, according to the Center for Automotive Research, an industry think tank in Ann Arbor, Mich. The state produced 9 percent of the cars made in the country, the center said. “This project will really put Alabama at the center of the Southern automotive industry,” Canfield said. President Donald Trump congratulated the state on Twitter Jan. 10 evening in a post that said, “Good news: Toyota and Mazda announce giant new Huntsville, Alabama, plant which will produce over 300,000 cars and SUV’s a year and employ 4000 people. Companies are coming back to the U.S. in a very big way. Congratulations Alabama!” The decision to pick Alabama is another example of a long trend of foreign-based
automakers building United States factories in the South. To entice manufacturers, Southern states have used a combination of lucrative incentive packages, low-cost labor and a probusiness labor environment since the United Auto Workers union is stronger in Northern states. Alabama started on the road to becoming an auto manufacturing hub in 1993 when Mercedes chose it as the location for a manufacturing plant after the state offered a then-eye popping $250 million incentive package. Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motors, said Jan. 10 that the new facility is something of a homecoming since the company already has one plant in the state. The new Huntsville plant will be just 14 mi. from Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Alabama, which produces four-cylinder, V-6 and V-8 engines for several Toyota models. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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Grandview Cancer Center Work Reaches Milestone General contractor Brasfield & Gorrie recently celebrated a construction milestone at Grandview Cancer Center. Crews signed and placed the final beam on the new, 26,000 sq. ft. facility, topping out the structure for the freestanding cancer center located on the Grandview Medical Center campus. As is tradition, the field crew also positioned a tree at the structure’s highest point. The cancer center will include a linear accelerator, pharmacy, three chemotherapy infusion bays and PET/CT scans. Aesthetically, the cancer center will feature Grandview’s signature glass and curved facade. Earl Swensson Associates is serving as architect of the project. The facility will enhance the existing Grandview Medical Center campus, which currently includes a 12-story, 1
million sq. ft. hospital, an 8-story, 220,000 sq. ft. medical office building and a 1.1 million sq. ft., 3,000-space parking deck. All existing structures were completed by Brasfield & Gorrie in 2015. “The completion of the structure of this cancer center is an exciting milestone made possible by the hard work and dedication of our employees, subcontractors and partners. We greatly appreciate the opportunity to continue our work on the Grandview campus with the addition of this facility, and we look forward to completion of this project early summer of 2018,” said Brasfield & Gorrie Division Manager Ed Hauser. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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