New visitors and educational center at 16th Street Baptist Church rendering (CCR Architecture)

This past week, 15 new building permits were issued across Alabama for construction projects exceeding $1 million. One of those permits is for a major additions to the historic 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.

A new visitors center and education center are in the works for the landmark, with a $7.9 million permits in place to get it done.

What’s new at 16th Street Baptist Church

The new building permit was obtained to complete a 13,000-square-foot education and visitors center at the church. The visitor center will be located adjacent to the existing church Parsonage and Sanctuary buildings.

Amenities include:

Meeting rooms
Dining area
Commercial kitchen
Support space to relieve the volume of tourists visiting the existing Sanctuary Building

Watsonbruhn Builders is listed as the lead contractor. More info on this renovation project can be found in our previous report.

More on these new building permits

Thanks to our friends at Report Construction LLC, we have the list of all of the new million-dollar-plus construction projects approved in Alabama last week. Each week, they pull together information from building permits issued to get all the details on these projects. You can get access to all of their construction permits right here.

Here’s more on these new building permits in Alabama this week:

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Date	City	Builder	Owner of Project	Project Address	Amount
04/10/2025	Birmingham	Saga Construction	Kamtek Inc	1595 Sterilite Drive	$1,666,000
04/10/2025	Birmingham	Watsonbruhn Builders LLC	Sixteenth Street	1530 6th Ave	$7,975,900
04/10/2025	Birmingham	Builder Not Listed	Unites States Steel Corp	101 Lucerne Lane	$3,355,000
04/10/2025	Huntsville	Pearce Construction	Steve Fahrenbach	1006 Explorer Blv Nw	$1,042,320
04/10/2025	Huntsville	Rives Construction Company Inc	Blaine Salem	2859 Memorial Pky Nw	$1,194,139
04/10/2025	Jefferson County	Fyffe Construction Company Inc	Villas at York Ltd	5409 York Couty U1	$15,233,554
04/10/2025	Jefferson County	Fyffe Construction Company Inc	Villas at York Ltd	5400 York Couty U1	$15,233,554
04/10/2025	Jefferson County	Fyffe Construction Company Inc	Villas at York Ltd	5450 York Couty U1	$15,233,554
04/10/2025	Jefferson County	Fyffe Construction Company Inc	Villas at York Ltd	5100 Villas Road U1	$15,233,554
04/10/2025	Madison	Stillwater Build LLC	Stillwater Build LLC	921 Mill Rd	$1,145,130
04/10/2025	Madison County	Cosgrove Construction Inc	Cosgrove Construction Inc	8228 US 72 W Hwy	$6,522,600
04/10/2025	Madison County	Summit Structures	Summit Structures	1575 Jordan Rd	$1,192,300
04/10/2025	Mtn Brook	Rives Construction Company Inc	Village Dermatology	14 Office Park Circle	$2,409,854
04/10/2025	Tuscaloosa	Snow Blakeney Construction	Boys & Girls Club Of West Al Inc	2201 Albert Pkwy	$1,630,621
04/10/2025	Tuscaloosa	Bob Morrow Construction Company Inc	Highland Park Senior Housing LLC	4220 Keene Dr Bldg 2	$10,670,713

In case you missed them

Hoover fire station — A new Hoover Fire Station No. 1 is among the new building permits issued recently. (City of Hoover)

Here are some of our recent building permits reports:

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