Plans are in the works to reinvigorate a small stretch of Woodward Avenue just south of downtown Birmingham.
Sav-On Drugs plans to tear down the old Birmingham Drugs storefront at 33877 Woodward and build a new pharmacy there. The new building, on the west side of Woodward at Ruffner Street, would be one story tall with a 40-foot tower.
The pharmacy will occupy 11,651 square feet on a parcel that is a little less than one acre in size. Sav-On also plans to build a parking facility that will hold up to 46 vehicles behind the store facing Ruffner.
The project has received preliminary site-plan approval from the city's planning commission. It is adjacent to the southern tip of Birmingham's Triangle District, an area just east of downtown bordered by Woodward, Adams Road and Maple Road. The area, which is in the shape of a triangle, is experiencing development pressure.
City leaders came up with the Triangle District to spur development on surface parking lots and underutilized properties, which dominate the landscape, to create a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use district similar to downtown.
Source: City of Birmingham
Writer: Jon Zemke
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