The Star at Uptown master plan for developing the Birmingham's former Carraway hospital campus includes single-family houses that will be built north of the abandoned medical center.
Oct. 25, 2022, 3:56 p.m.The Birmingham City Council on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, approved a request to rezone 44 lots for single-family housing north of the former Carraway hospital in Norwood. This photo is from one of the potential home sites north of 17th Avenue looking south towards the north parking deck of the former Carraway Methodist Medical Center.
“We will sell the property to a homebuilder and they will most likely charge market rate for the homes,” McGehee said.“Thanks, Corporate Realty, for taking interest in Norwood,” said City Council member LaTonya Tate, who grew up in the neighborhood and attended the now abandoned McArthur Elementary School at the corner of 25th Street and 17th Avenue North.
That includes a planned 9,000-seat amphitheatre that will be managed by Live Nation, which currently manages the Oak Mountain Amphitheatre in Pelham. If Birmingham’s plans for funding the amphitheatre go through, Live Nation plans to shutter Oak Mountain Amphitheatre and begin booking concerts for the downtown Birmingham venue when it is completed.on the 50-acre campus of the former hospital where the amphitheatre would be.
Knight, a member of the Greater Birmingham Convention and Visitors Burea board of directors, was among the board members whothe former Carraway Methodist Medical Center campus, setting in motion a redevelopment that has been years in coming.for the redevelopment of the former Carraway Methodist Medical Center site.