UAH taking first steps to create ‘college town experience’ with campus expansion Updated 11:08 AM; Two years after the plan was first introduced, the University of Alabama in Huntsville is taking the first steps to develop the Executive Plaza property the school purchased in 2017 in what’s described an ambitious expansion of the campus. The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees last week approved $4.1 million for the school to demolish the abandoned buildings at the 58-acre site across Sparkman Drive from the Bevill Center. The project’s master plan, in part, envisions a “lively cluster of student-focused retail, food and beverage options that builds the college town experience” as well as more campus housing, offices for UAH as well as the private sector and possibly a multi-use facility that would provide the school with its first campus home for its hockey team. Green space would be preserved for parks as well.