Former Westlawn Middle School Now Open as West Huntsville’s Newest Modern Office Center

On Wednesday, June 14, hundreds of Huntsville community members gathered in anticipation to see some of the city’s newest office space.

What makes this office space so different from the rest in the city? Well, many of our readers probably attended middle school in this new complex.

Local developers Garret Coyne and Beth Stender Boyer purchased the former Westlawn Middle School in West Huntsville back in 2021 with the idea of redeveloping the space into affordable and high-quality workspaces in a centralized location. They knew that West Huntsville had the potential for major growth which Coyne was keen to elaborate on.

“We really saw this building as a potentially new gateway into the West Huntsville redevelopment and the West Huntsville renaissance that this whole district was seeing along Governor’s Corridor,”

“We really saw this building as a potentially new gateway into the West Huntsville redevelopment and the West Huntsville renaissance that this whole district was seeing along Governor’s Corridor,” he explained. “We saw Ninth Avenue as a secondary gateway into the corridor starting here at Jordan Lane, ending all the way down to Clinton, through Seminole past Lowe Mill, and through the Triana Ninth intersection. We see this as a great corridor.”

This feeling of accomplishment regarding West Huntsville was also echoed by Mayor Tommy Battle in his remarks at the ceremony.

“This is really special because it’s the repurposing of a building. It’s part of our sustainability plan. We take something that had a purpose of that in invigorated bright young minds, and now it's going to be part of our economy. It's going to invigorate our business. It's gonna make us a city that can grow,” Battle proclaimed.

“And it's very exciting that we see this happening right here in the West Huntsville area. People will come in here and they'll get started here, and they'll go bigger and bigger and bigger, and it will keep our economy rolling for years to come.”

During the event, Coyne also announced that local restaurant delivery

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service, GrubSouth, has moved its office to Westlawn as its first office-space-tenant. GrubSouth and all future tenants will have access to a conference center, kitchen, coffee bar, and collaborative workspaces as amenities.

The developers also revealed phase II plans for the site, which will transform the nearly one-acre courtyard into an outdoor amenity for tenants featuring breakout workspaces among the courtyard plans designed by former Westlawn Middle student Chad Bostic.

The GrubSouth announcement was not his only surprise. Coyne also shared with those in attendance that the group acquired additional buildings along Ninth Avenue to implement a larger development.

“I want everyone to know that it's not the last building on this corridor that we have,” Coyne revealed. “So over the next couple of years, we will be working on two more projects on Ninth Avenue Street, totalling 150,000 square feet of new construction development.

“Those projects will be coming down the pipeline as we create this corridor along Ninth Avenue to bring people from the core of downtown Huntsville, out to the edge of West Huntsville, into the arsenal and into the rest of our community,”