BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Brookwood Village, a once-thriving shopping mall that has sat abandoned for several years in Birmingham, will be torn down.
The mall, which was first developed in the early 1970s and hosted many different businesses over the years, will be demolished this March. The announcement was made Wednesday by property owners Fairway Investments and Pope & Land Real Estate.
“We thoroughly evaluated adaptive reuse, but the building’s age, configuration, and infrastructure ultimately make it impractical for the range of solutions we considered,” Fairway Investments COO Sims Garrison said in a statement. “Demolition allows us to move forward decisively, accelerate redevelopment once plans are finalized, and salvage usable materials where possible.”…