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The Birmingham City Council on Tuesday extended an agreement with developers tasked with constructing a five-story commercial building at the former site of Ensley’s Ramsay-McCormack tower, a long-derelict structure that the community lobbied for decades to have destroyed. The council voted unan
Almost a year after its demolition, development surrounding the Ramsay McCormack building in Ensley is finally gaining steam.
Updated: 8:13 PM CDT Apr 19, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript BUSINESSES OFF GUARD. AND WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE PROJECT. >> WHEN THE BID -- WHEN THE BUILDING CAME DOWN IT WAS SO MUCH SMOKE EVERYWHERE. REPORTER THADDEUS CAMPBELL LIKES KEEPING HIS UNIFORMS GALORE STORE CLEAN AND NEAT. BUT LAST WEEK HE SAYS CREWS BEGAN DEMOLISHING THE TEN-STORY RAMSAY MCCORMACK BUILDING WITHOUT NOTICE. >> SMOKE WAS EVERYWHERE. CARS WERE FILLING WITH SMOKE. IT WAS HARD TO BREATHE. REPORTER: EMMA GRAY SAID THE DUST CAUSED HER GRANDSON BRIAN TO SUFFER ASTHMA ATTACKS. WHILE HE WAS WORKING AT HER FL...
Watch Ensley’s tallest building come crashing down Updated Apr 13, 2021; You can watch the mechanical demolition, completed Tuesday, in the video below. Since 1929, the 10-story Ramsay-McCormack Building has towered over Ensley, a symbol of its once proud business district in a historic industrial hub of west Birmingham. The demolished building will be replaced with a new office tower that will echo the old one, inspired by its architectural elements. Demolition began in the fall of 2020. No explosives were used. It has been a long and mostly gradual process. After years of legal wrangling...
New year means new programs, new look for Innovation Depot Updated Jan 29, 2021; Facebook Share Innovation Depot is ushering in 2021 with a new look on several fronts - a brand refresh, two entrepreneurial programs, a mobile app and revamping of its Birmingham campus. That’s after one of the most challenging years of its existence, and a further cementing of Birmingham’s status as one of the country’s rising startup ecosystems. “We’re really at the tipping point of building a tech community,” CEO Drew Honeycutt said. “There’s enough startups being led by entrepreneurs with ex...