It’s official: The City of Birmingham has bought the Community House.
The $5.2 million purchase of the building and property at 380 S. Bates St. was finalized on Monday, July 6, and includes an endowment worth approximately $800,000 and two Marshall Fredericks sculptures, city officials said in a news release Tuesday.
The purchase was made on behalf of the newly established City of Birmingham Community House Foundation, a charitable organization of which the city is the sole member, “ensuring the building will always belong to the city and its residents.”…