This past week, 12 new building permits were issued in Alabama for construction projects exceeding $1 million. These new permits include nine projects in North Alabama, two in Birmingham and one in Tusclaoosa.

The largest of these projects is a nearly $8 million permit issued for improvements at the Guntersville Park & Rec Center. Here are more details:

Guntersville Park + Rec renovations Phase II

Lambert Contracting was issued a $7.9 million building permit for Phase II of Guntersville Park renovations. Construction began on this phase in late August.

Improvements to the park in this phase include rebuilding the Lions Park complex, as well as adding a splash pad adjoining the Rec Center pool area.

Construction is expected to take between 12 and 16 months.

More on these new construction projects in Alabama

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
09/28/2023	Birmingham	P&M Mechanical INC	Owner Not Listed	808 20th Street South		AL	35205		$1,257,000
09/28/2023	Birmingham	Jerry L Johnson & Associates Inc	Bellsouth Mobility Inc	609 35th Street South		AL	35222		$1,175,000
09/28/2023	Cullman	Johnson kreis Construction Co Inc	Desperation Church	202 Elizabeth Street NE		AL	35056		$1,208,000
09/27/2023	Guntersville	Lambert Contracting LLC	Guntersville Park Phase II	1500 Sunset Drive		AL	35976		$7,971,000
09/27/2023	Huntsville	Ecker Construction	Tim Grogan	114 Heart of Huntsville Dr SW	Starbucks at Constellation	AL			$1,712,112
09/27/2023	Huntsville	Heath Wallace LLC	Michael Haley	185 West Park Loop NW		AL			$1,200,000
09/27/2023	Huntsville	James Hill Acoustical Inc	Huntsville Hospital	201 Governors Dr SW		AL			$1,100,000
09/27/2023	Madison County	Shamrock LLC	Shamrock LLC	119 Wall Rd		AL	35811	45,000	$2,996,000
09/27/2023	Madison County	Roman Beregovsky	Roman Beregovsky	2108 Cherry Tree Rd		AL	35748	10,698	$1,200,000
09/28/2023	Scottsboro	Sanford & Sisters	Sanford & Sisters	17106 AL Highway 35		AL	35769		$1,010,442
09/28/2023	Scottsboro	Robert Word	Owner Not Listed	1501 East Willow		AL	35769		$1,000,622
09/28/2023	Tuscaloosa	Three Fingers Inc	Three Fingers Inc	9030 Highway 69 S		AL	35405	0	$1,200,000

Past Alabama building permits

In case you missed any of the previous lists of new million-dollar-plus building permits issued in Alabama, here are the permits from the last several weeks: