Shinhwa Auburn Rendering — One of the new building permits issued this week is the expansion of the Shinhwa plant in Auburn. (Shinhwa)

This week, seven new building permits were pulled for construction projects exceeding $1 million. Of these new building permits, three are for projects exceeding $20 million, including the expansion of the Shinhwa plant in Auburn.

Here’s what we know about these new high-dollar projects:

Shinhwa plant expansion in Auburn

Staticmap — This $32 million project in Auburn is one of the new building permits issued this week. (City of Auburn)

One of the new building permits issued this week was for a $32 million project led by Top Global Contractor in Georgia. This permit is for the continued expansion of Hyundai and Kia supplier Shinhwa Auto USA Corp. in Auburn.

Last spring, Shinhwa announced a second auto parts manufacturing facility in Auburn as part of a $78 million growth project that will create 42 jobs over the next three years.

Shinhwa will build the new 400,000-square-foot factory across from its existing location in Auburn Technology Park West to expand output of aluminum parts and meet future demands stemming from electric vehicle production.

Shinhwa opened its first plant in Auburn in 2019.

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 projects approved in Alabama last week. Each week, they pull together information from 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 more info on these new building permits:

Date	City	Builder	Ownerof Project	ProjectAddress	ProjectSubdivision	ProjectState	ProjectZip Code	Square Footage	Amount
08/10/2023	Auburn	Top Global Contractor LLC	Owner Not Listed	2535 West Tech Lane	West Tech Parak Annex	AL	36830		$32,000,000
08/10/2023	Huntsville	Tampa Construction Enterprise Inc	John Tampa	707 Monroe St SW		AL			$8,500,000
08/10/2023	Huntsville	Fite Construction	Capstone Development	4315 Holmes Ave NW		AL			$41,765,393
08/10/2023	Huntsville	Huntsville Design & Construction Inc	John Oldham	1608 Four Mile Post Rd SE		AL			$1,617,002
08/09/2023	Madison County	ESI Inc of Tennessee	owner not listed	5251 Triana Blvd		AL	35804	13,923	$31,870,400
08/09/2023	Shelby County	Mike Mooney Construction LLC	James E & Lattrelle Suelle	4400 Old Smokey Road		AL	35040		$3,020,000
08/10/2023	Tallapoosa County	Southern Traditions	Stephens	117 Trout Lily Lane Dadeville		AL	36853		$3,500,000

Past Permits

Screenshot 20230807 143243 — Last week’s new building permits featured a new apartment complex in Madison. (Google Maps)

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: