This past week saw 11 new building permits issued statewide for construction projects exceeding $1 million. Five of those projects are in North Alabama, while two are in Tuscaloosa, one is in the Birmingham metro and two are in the Montgomery area.

Last week, one of the new million-dollar-plus projects receiving a permit was the new Cooper Green Mercy Health building currently under construction in Birmingham.

Here’s more info on these new projects:

Cooper Green Hospital in Birmingham

Ground was broken in January on the new Cooper Green hospital building, which will replace the now-demolished hospital (originally called Mercy Hospital).

According to UAB, Cooper Green Mercy Health will include several new amenities:

An expanded rehabilitation suite featuring an outdoor section dedicated to developing outdoor skills such as navigating curbs and various ground surfaces
A phlebotomy and injection clinic that will streamline laboratory visits and improve the process of vaccinations
New magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine
Clinic areas will be designed to support team-based, multidisciplinary care, making clinic visits more centralized for the comfort of the patients
Facility will incorporate natural light throughout the building in stairwells and waiting areas
Gift shop and food service options

Brasfield & Gorrie is the lead contractor on this project.

More on these new high-dollar 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 are the new building permits approved for million-dollar-plus projects this week in Alabama:

Date	City	Builder	Ownerof Project	ProjectAddress	ProjectSubdivision	ProjectState	ProjectZip Code	Square Footage	Amount
10/16/2023	Athens	Shiv Services LLC	Shiv Services LLC	21119 Cool Springs Dr		AL			$6,751,870
10/19/2023	Decatur	Bailey Harris Construction Company Inc	Vincent Calhoun Community College	6250 Highway 31 N		AL	35609	0	$21,311,323
10/19/2023	Huntsville	Tampa Construction Enterprise Inc	John Tampa	707 Monroe Street SW		AL			$12,940,000
10/19/2023	Huntsville	Fite Construction	City of Huntsville	1145 Jordan Road NE Unit L		AL		0	$12,869,474
10/19/2023	Huntsville	Mccon Building Corporation	S & L Properties	6490 US 431 S Highway SE	Knoll at Hampton Cove Phase 2	AL		0	$3,403,690
10/19/2023	Prattville	DR Horton Inc – Bham	DR Horton Inc – Bham	1025 Birch Lane		AL	36067	1,774	$3,150,958
10/18/2023	Prattville	Webb Builders	Owner Not Listed	475 East Main Street		AL	36067		$1,298,000
10/18/2023	Shelby County	Francis Bryant Construction	Mitchell Tom	183 Saunders Bridge Road		AL	35147	5,000	$1,500,000
10/16/2023	Tallapoosa County	Dilworth Development Inc	Dilworth Development Inc	188 Pay Point Road		AL	36853		$2,243,805
10/19/2023	Tuscaloosa	J T Harrison Construction Co	The University of Alabama	200 Bryce Lawn Drive		AL		0	$3,186,000
10/19/2023	Tuscaloosa	J T Harrison Construction Co	One Julia Tutwiler LLC	1140 Julia Tutweiler Dr		AL	35404		$1,000,000