How Campus No. 805 turned a pass-through into a destination hub

Campus No. 805, the entertainment hub that opened its redeveloped doors 10 years ago, is marking the occasion with a new music festival and more.

Why it matters: An early public-private partnership for Huntsville, Campus No. 805 paved the way for similar adaptive reuse projects in the city and helped draw hundreds of millions in further investment.

  • It also turned the area of Governors Drive west of Memorial Parkway into a destination, rather than a pass-through between 565 and the medical district, said Shane Davis, Huntsville’s director of economic development.

Catch up quick: Built in 1949 for the University of Alabama, the site became S.R. Butler High School in 1951 and Roy L. Stone Middle School in 1967, which closed in 2009…

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