[CPEO-BIF] "$55 million student housing development coming near UAB, " Birmingham, Alabama

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

$55 million student housing development coming near UAB

By Barnett Wright
Birmingham Times (AL)
August 7, 2020

The Jefferson County Commission on Thursday voted to abate nearly $650,000 in taxes for a $55 million student housing complex in the Parkside District near the UAB campus.

The County Commission approved on the consent agenda $67,293 in sales/use taxes and $578,139 in brownfield property taxes for the seven-story development, which is expected to house up to 400 residents and will be built atop a brownfield site bordered by 13th and 14th Streets South and Fourth and Fifth Avenues South.

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Trey Hill, an attorney with the Bradley law firm, told a Jefferson County Committee of the Whole the developer will have to have incur “significant environmental mitigation costs” to ready the site, including roughly $1.1 million of the $1.5 million to excavate, haul off and dispose of four feet of contaminated soil.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.birminghamtimes.com/2020/08/55-million-student-housing-development-coming-near-uab/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org





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