New Construction Projects At Drake State — The Advanced Manufacturing Center at Drake State was among the new construction projects approved this week. (Fite Construction)

This week, two new building permits were approved in Alabama for construction projects exceeding $1 million. Both of these permits are for projects in North Alabama.

The priciest of the two permits is an $18 million project at Drake State Community and Technical College in Huntsville — a new training center that broke ground earlier in the summer.

The Advanced Manufacturing Center at Drake State

Fite Building Company is the lead contractor for the new Advanced Manufacturing Center at Drake State.

The project includes two 50,000-square-foot buildings consisting of classrooms, welding and machine tool labs, industrial and electronic labs, additive manufacturing and additional academic spaces.

The buildings are single story structures with interior equipment platforms and an integral tornado shelter.

About these new construction projects

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	Subtype of Project	Square Footage	Amount
09/06/2023	Huntsville	JS Building Company Inc	Thomas Lavelle	11515 Gilleland Rd SE		AL				$1,215,359
09/06/2023	Huntsville	Fite Construction	Drake State Comm College	3401 Meridian St NW		AL				$18,449,399

Past construction projects

Gorrie Hall is the latest addition on UAB’s campus for the School of Engineering. (UAB)

In case you might have 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: