Bob Farley/f8photo
Since the Parliament House Motor Hotel came down on February 17, workers have been slowly clearing away the rubble. Here a wroker tries to keep the dust down by spraying water on debris being loaded onto to trucks.
Tag Archives: demolition
Random Shots: Parliament House Hotel update
Posted in 35223, Random Shots
Tagged cleanup, demolition, Hotel, implosion update, Parliament House Motor Hotel, update
La Paree’s coming down
André Natta/Flickr
This longtime downtown Birmingham sign will soon be going away. Harbert Realty Services announced this morning that they will be demolishing the former La Paree restaurant, located at 2013 5th Avenue North, to allow for more space in the planned 4-Diamond Marriott Renaissance Hotel. The $52 million luxury hotel will be contained in the former Regions Bank headquarters at the intersection of 5th Avenue North and 20th Street.
Posted in 35203, architecture, Business
Tagged 35203, Alabama, Birmingham, city center, demolition, development, downtown, Hotel, La Paree, News, restaurant
Parliament House’s coming down
UPDATE: 2.16.2008 – Street closing information
Photo credit: Bob Farley/f8photo
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has begun to raze the vacant Parliament House hotel on 20th Street and 5th. Avenue South. The 11-story, 223-room hotel was built in 1964.
Note: Here’s the post that first announced the approval of the demolition of the building, along with a link to a letter about its now sealed fate. ACN
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Tagged Alabama, Birmingham, demolition, Hotel, Parliament, Parliament House Hotel, UAB
Random Shots: Sending a message
Photo credit: Chotty via Flickr
Some residents in Forest Park-South Avondale decided that they would ask Birmingham’s new mayor for a favor during the early days of his administration. The old Avonwood Cleaners building has sat vacant for years and has already suffered a fallen in roof and vandalism as mentioned in this story from August. This group simply wants the building taken down, though it the city did say in August that it may take as long as six months to clean up the property before demolition. They decided it was time to make sure that folks remembered that they wanted it down; so up went the sign on December 1…
Now if we could just get that old metal sign on the side of the building for our office…
Posted in Random Shots, The First 100
Tagged Alabama, Avonwood Cleaners, Birmingham, demolition, Forest Park, protest, request, sign, South Avondale
