Red Cross Building

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This article is about the downtown building. For the current Red Cross headquarters, see Ridge Park.

The Red Cross Building (originally the Social Security Building) is a vacant five-story office building at 2225 3rd Avenue North in downtown Birmingham.

The 125,000 square foot building was built in the 1940s on the site of the former Municipal Market for the United States Social Security Administration. It was renovated and expanded in 1975 for the American Red Cross, the building's only tenant since that time. In 1998 the Red Cross moved to the renovated Rust Building at Ridge Park on Red Mountain.

In 2004 Operation New Birmingham put the vacant building on their 12 Most Wanted list of downtown buildings in need of renovation. No plans have been announced as of 2011.

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References

  • Tomberlin, Michael (February 13, 2011) "Downtown dreams: Renovation slow for prominent buildings." The Birmingham News
  • Diel, Stan (February 24, 2011) "Sign of times past uncovered downtown." The Birmingham News
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