The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
POWER co.
TO BUILD
OWN HOME
Work To Start In Fall
On is Or 2O-Story
Structure
SITE AT SIXTH AVE.
AND EIGHTEENTH
Cost Between 1000, 900
And $1,250,00O Is
Estimated
$4,000 rs PAID FOR
LOT 14O BY 100 FEET.
Present Plans Call For Excaya-
ton Work To Begin About
November As Tenants Vacate
$4,000 is PAID FOR
LOT 14O BY 100 FEET

Birmingham gets another skyscraper
within the course of the next seven
or eight months. 1t was announced
Wednesday, morning that the Alabama
Power company has decided to erect
q home office.
1t is as yet undecided whether the
building win be 16 % 20 stories high,
but because Of the compaynss growth
the general belief is the structure viii
be 20 floors aboye ground.
The building, it is estimated. will
cost between 100000 and 81 ,250,-
600. Officials have discussed the sub
ieet with architects and the company
IL going ahead with its preparations.
Last December, through an agent,
the Alabama Power company acquired
ground on the northwest corner of
Sixth avenue and Eighteenth street.
The transaction was handled by Il. A.
Brown, the property bought in the name
of the Imperial Land company. The
frontage is 40 feet on Sixth avenue
and 100 feet ON Eighteenth street. Three
parcels of land were bought at 81 ,0S3.
$1h,000 and $4,000, respectively, .
gofai Of So. 600 4
Nbsf Leases Declined
Agents Tor the properly declined 10
lease tbs houses now on the property
for any time after. October / !, 1924,
after which date demolition OF the pres
ent STRUCTURES is expected to start and
work OF erecting the Alabama Power
company's home office will start in the
late fall or early in the coming winter.
At present the Alabama Power com
panS Is occupying several floors in the
Br0wn-Marx building and the three
floors of the old Birmingham Ledger
building. Putting up its own home
has been under discussion seriously for
nearly year and Wednesday morning
the fact OF the intention to build, the
style Of the building and its location
was made known.
Real estate men were much interest.
ed lin the project for sale Of the site
in question had been puzzle and source
of discussion for months. 1t was as
humed large institution would build
there because, other than home Of
flee, none saw the desirability Of an
office building 50 far away from the
business center at this period of the
scity's development.
Can supply All Material
A phase of the subject that was
mucn ulSeuSSeu was tunL 0lfluiukuAIu
Is one of the few cities in North Amer
lea that can supply all major parts OF
a skyscrapcr without going outside the
city limits. Steel. brick, concrete, con-
tractors, labor. architects. lumber, fix
lures OF many sorts, and capital for
the new office building can all be sup
piled at home.
Present plans call for the start Of ex.
eavation about November with the lay
ing of the foundations to be under way,
unless rock is struck and plans delayed
very early in the new year. tits hoped
the building will be completed before
the year is out.
Relieve Office Congestion
Moving Of the Alabama Power com.
panys office from their present loca.
tions to the new building viii relieve
to a marked extent the congestion in
the office room situation, more than q
hundred offices being made available
for new tenants.
With the site bought and intention
20 build known, it is expected that the
architect viii be chosen within the very
near future.
Thomas w. Martin, president of the
Alabama Power company, left Birming
ham Tor Washington Wednesday in re-
gard 10 the Muscle Shoals bids now
being discussed in the capitol.