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The Young and Vann Building, now known as the Center for Regional Planning and Design, is Sloss Real Estate Group’s newest urban redevelopment. Sloss is well known for projects that focus on historic preservation and top-quality redevelopment in Birmingham’s urban core.
To Cathy Crenshaw, the President of Sloss Real Estate, this project was especially significant: “Working with planners, architects, and designers to create a working environment that fulfilled their needs and values was both challenging and satisfying.”
Sloss Real Estate’s projects include One Federal Place, a new eleven-story Class-A office building designed to blend in with the more historic structures around it; the Martin Biscuit Building, built during the Depression to diversify Birmingham’s economy, now outfitted with IT infrastructure to serve the needs of technology-based firms; Pepper Place, the heart of Birmingham’s design district and home to the city’s urban Farmers’ Market; and Park Place, a Hope VI redevelopment of 12 urban blocks in downtown Birmingham.
Sloss saw great potential in the 28,000 square foot Young & Vann Building. After purchasing the structure in 2002, Sloss began a $3 million renovation, creating headquarters for the Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham, Region 2020, and the Auburn Studio. Sloss and these tenants worked with architect Chris Engel of Goodwyn Mills and Cawood on the design of the three-story building. Stone Building Company was the construction contractor. Working together, these groups have transformed a century-old warehouse into the Center for Regional Planning and Design. Joining them soon will be the Housing Initiative for Central Alabama, the Southern Organizing Coop, CommuteSmartRideshare/Traffic Safety, and Scenic Alabama. Only two vacant spaces remain in the building.
For more information, contact:
Tim Blair
Sloss Real Estate Group, Inc.
(205) 802-2100
Chris Engel
Goodwyn Mills and Cawood
(205) 879-4462
Bill Stone
Stone Building Company
(205) 328-8300
