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UAB is planning for a decent amount of new facilities across the campus in the next 5 years. Great to see the recent growth continuing.

For athletics the master plan shows:

-Additional football practice field
-New grandstands/pressbox at YMF
-Baseball/softball field house
-New tennis facility (4th Ave S & 13th St S)

Other new University facilities:

-New residence hall & dining facility next to Rast Hall (10th Ave S)
-Demolition of Denman Hall
-New Student Organizations Meeting Hall (11th Ave S & 14th St S)
-2 new student parking decks (one across from Al's on 10th Ave S next to the newest dorm and one across from UAB Highlands on 11th Ave S)
-Science & Engineering Complex (13th St S - site of former Education Building)
-Addition to new Honors Hall (former Snoozys building)
-Addition to Childcare Center
-New intramural/marching band field (4th Ave S just off I-65 exit)
-New 2 block public park along 11th Ave S between campus and Southside neighborhood

Medical facilities:

-2 new buildings in the parking lot across from Kirklin Clinic (between 20th S and Richard Arrington)
-Addition to the Whitaker Clinic
-New Kirklin/Whitaker Clinic parking deck
-2 new buildings on the site of the current Administration Building
-New clinic building for UAB Highlands in a portion of the current parking lot
-New Spain Rehab building
-New Genomic Medicine/Data Science Research facility
-New Biomedical Sciences research facility (corner of 18th & University)
-New Psychology building (along 19th st S)

Good stuff! I thought the baseball/softball fieldhouse was already in progress? May have just seen it on a planning map.

U still believe that UAB and The City should work out a land transfer for the ENTIRE park on which Legion Field sits on a small part. It is essentially level so construction costs for new buildings would be comparably minimal. Even without additional land being added, it would be very close to link the present Southsude Campus to a West Campus which would put UAB in a position to enroll over 20,000 more students.

if you are among those worried about "those people in that neighborhood" remember that the Southside resembled that area demographically back in 1069. The same growth potential for that park land is just as reasonable today.

(04-30-2021 06:49 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  U still believe that UAB and The City should work out a land transfer for the ENTIRE park on which Legion Field sits on a small part. It is essentially level so construction costs for new buildings would be comparably minimal. Even without additional land being added, it would be very close to link the present Southsude Campus to a West Campus which would put UAB in a position to enroll over 20,000 more students.

if you are among those worried about "those people in that neighborhood" remember that the Southside resembled that area demographically back in 1069. The same growth potential for that park land is just as reasonable today.

That's waaay back

You’re talking two very different times. I don’t think UAB would be interested in that at all.

At some point, B'ham is going to have to do something with that land. Legion Field is on that land, but only a small part of the whole park.If the city finds a buyer for it, then the option "ball" will not be in UAB's "court" from then on. .

At one time after 1819, Florida offered to sell the "Panhandle" from the Appalachicola/Chattahoochie River to the Perdido River to Alabama for $1 million. Alabama said NO, probably doubting cotton would grow there or we just didn't need all that sand. It would be a valuable area for Alabama to own that land today (Destin, Panama City, Pensacola, etc over to Baldwin County.)., but the offer is no longer good.

(04-30-2021 11:45 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  At some point, B'ham is going to have to do something with that land. Legion Field is on that land, but only a small part of the whole park.If the city finds a buyer for it, then the option "ball" will not be in UAB's "court" from then on. .

At one time after 1819, Florida offered to sell the "Panhandle" from the Appalachicola/Chattahoochie River to the Perdido River to Alabama for $1 million. Alabama said NO, probably doubting cotton would grow there or we just didn't need all that sand. It would be a valuable area for Alabama to own that land today (Destin, Panama City, Pensacola, etc over to Baldwin County.)., but the offer is no longer good.

Legion field isn’t UABs problem. No reason for UAB to take on the burden. UAB can go west on university Blvd and north towards park side. Students didn’t even want to go to legion field for games. And I’m not bashing the area, I’m from ensley and grew up all over the west side. I’m just being realistic.

I imagine that the city would want to re-develop that area as a green space. Since it is not continuous to UAB’s campus, I don’t see it as a good addition.

(05-01-2021 06:11 AM)MAN4UAB Wrote:  I imagine that the city would want to re-develop that area as a green space. Since it is not continuous to UAB’s campus, I don’t see it as a good addition.

The fact that the City does not have a current offer for that land is an advantage for UAB to make a deal for it. Once the land is put to commercial ownership, the UAB option would probably be as dead as the Florida offer for the Panhandle..To fixate on the Legion Field Stadium as the only factor is a mistake. The whole park property is about the same area as the current UAB undergraduate area, and with infrastructure money coming from DC, we might be able to extend both to draw them closer. As long as there are UAB buses, they don't have to be contiguous to be convenient..

I want UAB to be comparable to FIU, UCF and USF in student enrollment. While a student at Bama, I thought it a large school. Then in 1960 I visited Ohio State and saw dorms larger than any building at Bama. They had enrollment of about 50,000 then. Bama just recently bragged about reaching the 30,000 mark (which UTK had in the 60s).