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Old 01-18-2019, 08:49 AM
 
Location: Birmingham, AL
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From the Orchestra Partners FB page:

Mercantile on Morris

"When the condos at Founders Station sold out in mere weeks, we came to appreciate just how desperately people wanted to live downtown. With that in mind, we sped up Phase II of that project and recently announced 6 more units above the future James Beard Award Winning restaurant, The Essential, and directly on Morris Ave. We've had a lot of emails and calls about those, so act fast bc they'll be move-in ready in May 2019.

Meanwhile, we've been designing our latest mixed use project, which is a historic redevelopment of three old merchant warehouses built in 1905. You'll remember these buildings as the home of the old "Matthews Bar & Grill" (yes, we played pool there, too). They are about to become Mercantile on Morris.

Mercantile is going to be awesome. Similar to Founders Station, we'll have a walkable plaza built among the bones of the old structure connecting 1st Ave N to Morris Ave. Along this plaza will be various retail, restaurants, and bars, and above all the action will be 40+ residential units with a Morris Ave address. There isn't a single unit over $240k.

Tired of Ubering downtown? Move here! Mercantile is a 5min walk from Pilcrow Cocktail Cellar, Sprout & Pour Juicery + Cafe, Square One Goods Co., Urban Standard, The Collins Bar, The Atomic, John's City Diner, Bamboo on 2nd, El Barrio Restaurante, Paramount Bham, Carrigan's Public House. We're only a 10min walk from Railroad Park, Regions Field, The Pizitz Food Hall, the Financial District, and the Publix downtown. Ditch your car, you won't need it.

Morris Avenue will be Birmingham's own flavor of Royal Street, Beale Street, King Street, etc. in a few years, might as well get a sweet deal on it now.

Mercantile will be move-in ready in the Fall 2019, but pre-sales are going on now."
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Old 01-18-2019, 05:28 PM
 
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I'm pretty sure people are desperate to move downtown to escape the imminent traffic apocalypse.
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Old 01-19-2019, 11:57 AM
 
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I'm pretty sure people are desperate to move downtown to escape the imminent traffic apocalypse.
The traffic apocalypse will have minimal impact on me. If I were to move downtown, it would be much more profound. Furthermore, these most recent announced developments won't be completed until the traffic apocalypse is over.

I bet the traffic apocalypse won't actually end up being that terrible.
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Old 01-21-2019, 08:21 AM
 
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The traffic apocalypse will have minimal impact on me. If I were to move downtown, it would be much more profound. Furthermore, these most recent announced developments won't be completed until the traffic apocalypse is over.

I bet the traffic apocalypse won't actually end up being that terrible.
If the traffic apocalypse isn't that bad, is the road really that necessary?
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Old 01-21-2019, 10:26 AM
 
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If the traffic apocalypse isn't that bad, is the road really that necessary?
Eh... I think that's a stretch.
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Old 01-21-2019, 12:25 PM
 
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Eh... I think that's a stretch.
Ha yeah. I still there there might be some un-thought-of benefits before it's done. Normally this spurs growth along the other routes and places like Grants Mill/Liberty Park really need to evolve because I feel like they stagnated a year after they were built as far as what all is out there. Maybe this will help.

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Old 01-31-2019, 07:28 PM
 
Location: Birmingham
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Ha yeah. I still there there might be some un-thought-of benefits before it's done. Normally this spurs growth along the other routes and places like Grants Mill/Liberty Park really need to evolve because I feel like they stagnated a year after they were built as far as what all is out there. Maybe this will help.
I am not sure why you feel that Liberty Park has stagnated, but either way they seem to be doing fine with new development coming soon. The Bray will help a little more out there.

The Bray - Liberty Park - New Construction Homes in Birmingham
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Old 02-01-2019, 07:59 AM
 
Location: Birmingham, AL
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^not to mention Encompass Health (formerly HealthSouth) just opened its brand new HQ there.
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Old 02-04-2019, 11:28 AM
 
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^not to mention Encompass Health (formerly HealthSouth) just opened its brand new HQ there.
Because growing by one 6 story office building in 10 or so years is not considered growth IMO. Lots of houses, but little any thing else. i worked in Liberty Park for a few years. It sucks to work there. You exhaust all your eating options very fast and have to go to 280 for anything. Nice? Yeah sure, but nice gets old fast when there's nothing to do.

Same for Grants Mill. Couple new car dealerships which are awesome but Tom Williams looks it needs a serious overhaul. Either way, pretty stagnant for the past 10 years.

Hopefully, the interstate reroute will help.

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Old 02-11-2019, 08:00 AM
 
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This just in. USS is moving ahead on the Electric Arc Furnace. This is a big deal. 150-200 jobs to start with, but it's also likely that more will result over time.



https://www.bizjournals.com/birmingh...166&j=86593121
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