City of Birmingham approves $13M capital projects, including fire stations and Rickwood Field

The Birmingham City Council approved an amended capital projects plan proposed by Mayor Randall Woodfin. 

Nearly $13 million plan will fund neighborhood street and sidewalk work, storm drainage projects and critical initiatives at facilities such as fire stations, parks, Rickwood Field and Vulcan Park and Museum.  The funding for these capital projects was made possible by city bond refinancing.   

Widespread Support

“These projects support our top priority of neighborhood revitalization. We want to move quickly to secure the funds needed to complete these projects,” Mayor Woodfin said following passage of the measure. “I thank the members of the council for working with me to take this step to move these projects forward.”

Here is a list of the capital improvements:

• 41st Street streetscape and drainage: $1,500,000
• Third Avenue West streetscape: $1,292,532.28
• City Walk: $1,250,000
• Green Springs Highway streetscape phase II: $1,200,000
• Pine Knoll Vista drainage: $815,000
• Forest Park Avondale Business District streetscape: $750,000
• Carver Avenue SW: $675,000
• Hooper City Phase V drainage improvement: $598,615
• Tuggle Elementary School access improvements: $583,337
• Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd streetscape: $500,000

• Second Avenue South streetscape: $500,000
• Interstate Greenway Project: $500,000
• Hawkins Golf Course repairs: $500,000
• Hanover Circle repaving: $475,000
• Vulcan Park improvements: $400,000
• 19th Street Ensley improvements: $400,000
• Rickwood Field improvement: $375,000
• City Park (Mountaindale Road Park): $168,503.89
• Museum of Art elevator repair: $150,000
• Cahaba Road roundabout: $150,000
• Eastlake Park (Fitness Court): $109,413
• Germania Park improvements: $96,477.20
• Henry Crumpton Recreation Center improvements: $37,561.19
• Fire Facilities improvements: $20,278.84

Past Stories About These Community Projects

Bham Now has reported on several of these projects or ones that were nearby over the past year or two — including— East Lake Park Fitness Court, Hanover Circle repaving, and Green Springs Highway streetscape (the Homewood section) and City Walk. 

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