Mental health ER for kids one of 13 new building permits in Alabama
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This week, 13 new building permits were issued for million-dollar-plus construction projects throughout the state of Alabama. Included among these new projects are four permits issued in North Alabama and seven in the Birmingham metro.
Here’s what we know about these new building permits:
Wellstone Behavioral Health

WellStone is building an urgently needed inpatient mental health care center for children, the first facility of its kind in North Alabama. Ground was broken on the new facility Friday.
Here are some quick facts:
- This is a 24-bed, 12,000 sq. ft. mental healthcare center
- It will stand adjacent to WellStone Emergency Services for adults at 4020 Memorial Parkway SW, Huntsville, AL 35802
- The facility is expected to be completed in 2024
More on these new building permits
Thanks to our friends at Southern Exposure Information, we have the list of all new million-dollar-plus construction permits approved in Alabama last week. Each week, they pull together information from new building permits issued to get all the details on these projects. You can get access to all of their construction permits right here.
Here’s this week’s list of high-dollar building permits issued in Alabama:
Past Permits

In case you may have missed any of our previous reports on million-dollar-plus building permits issued in Alabama, here are some of our reports from the last several weeks:
- November 7, 2022
- November 18, 2022
- November 21, 2022
- November 28, 2022
- December 5, 2022
- December 12, 2022
- December 19, 2022
- January 9, 2023
- January 30, 2023
- February 6, 2023
- February 13, 2023
- March 6, 2023
- March 20, 2023
- March 27, 2023
- April 6, 2023
- April 11, 2023
- April 18, 2023
- April 25, 2023
- May 1, 2023
- May 8, 2023
- May 15, 2023
- May 23, 2023
- May 30, 2023
- June 6, 2023
- June 21, 2023
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