The former Belk department store at Brookwood Village has been sold to Andrews Sports Medicine & Orthopedic Center. This sale is another step toward adding some new life back to the vacated former mall.

The purchase was $16 million, according to records from Jefferson County, and took place between FPL Brookwood (Fairway Investments and Pope & Land Real Estate) and HPIV Birmingham, LLC (associated with a medical real estate firm based in Wisconsin).

Fairway Investments and Pope & Land Real Estate purchased Brookwood Village in 2021. At the time, Brookwood wasn’t entirely empty, but evolving retail trends and the COVID-19 pandemic had dealt heavy blows.

Brookwood Mall abandoned in Birmingham in 2022. (Nathan Watson for Bham Now)

In November 2024, Andrews Sports Medicine announced their intention to transform the space into a roughly 135,000-square-foot medicine and orthopedic center. Andrews Sports Medicine is a world-renowned non-profit clinic specializing in sports medicine and orthopaedic patient care, research, education and injury prevention.

“We are excited to welcome Andrews Sports Medicine and its iconic brand to Brookwood Village. We believe Andrews will be a great catalyst to kick off the redevelopment of a property that has been such a special place for the people in the surrounding communities. With this announcement, we can now focus on finalizing the broader redevelopment plan and look forward to sharing it with the community in the coming months.”
Paul Darden, Vice President of Development at Fairway Investments

57-acre Brookwood Village lost its final business in December 2024 when Five Guys closed its doors.

In May this year, the Homewood City Council unanimously approved the Andrews Sports Medicine plan in hopes that the project will encourage future investment and development in the area.

“We are sitting across from the street from a big, empty hulk of a building that has been empty for five or six years at this point.

“We hear from our constituents every day for something to happen there; we love Andrews Sports Medicine—they’re a great local organization and we’re thrilled to have them in Homewood.”

Jennifer Andress, Ward 5 Representative, City of Homewood, May 2025

No further announcements have been made about the plan or when construction will begin.

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