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Auburn in Birmingham Redevelopment

Sector: Metal • Location: Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Source: Bham Now

Project
Completed

The Auburn in Birmingham project involved the transformation of the historic Hood-McPherson Building, a long-vacant six-story furniture showroom built in 1914, into a state-of-the-art 44,000-square-foot satellite campus for Auburn University. The redevelopment includes classrooms for Auburn's College of Architecture, Design, and Construction and the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business, as well

Status
Closed
Sector
Metal, Education, Telecommunications, Commercial, Residential
Location
Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
Updated
22 Jul 2026
Source
Bham Now

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The project “Auburn in Birmingham Redevelopment” is an infrastructure initiative in the Metal sector, located in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Taiyo aggregates data on it from Bham Now.

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2026-07-22

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The Auburn in Birmingham project involved the transformation of the historic Hood-McPherson Building, a long-vacant six-story furniture showroom built in 1914, into a state-of-the-art 44,000-square-foot satellite campus for Auburn University. The redevelopment includes classrooms for Auburn's College of Architecture, Design, and Construction and the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business, as well as a home base for Auburn's Birmingham alumni network. The project also contributed to revitalizing a dormant section of Birmingham's central business district.

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Education

Location

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United States of America (USA)

State

Alabama

City

Birmingham

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Bham Now

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Sector

Metal, Education, Telecommunications, Commercial, Residential

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2026-05-17

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