Colonial Center
In February 2006 Colonial Properties went before the Homewood Planning Commission with plans for a new nine-story office tower to be located adjacent to Belk on the west side of the mall. In April, law firm Johnston Barton Proctor & Powell announced that they would be moving from their present offices in downtown Birmingham into 40,000 square feet (4,000 m2) of the new $35.8 million 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m2) office building. Colonial Properties Trust also plans to consolidate its Birmingham-area staff of about 150 people into the new building. Plans call for 13,000 square feet (1,200 m2) of ground floor specialty retail, a covered walkway connecting the building to Belk, and redundant power feeds from two separate substations to reduce the likelihood of outages.
Future plans for Brookwood Village have previously also mentioned a luxury hotel, but no firm plans regarding that possibility have been announced.
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