1st Avenue South
1st Avenue South is a Downtown Birmingham street running from I-65 in the west to Avondale in the east, just south of Powell Avenue and one block from the Railroad Reservation.
The downtown section of 1st Avenue South is in the early stages of large scale redevelopment. It is slated to become the main frontage for the Railroad Reservation Park between 14th and 18th Streets, and is also experiencing significant redevelopment around the location of the 1st Avenue Cut that runs from 20th to 24th Street.
The 24th Street viaduct and Red Mountain Expressway overpass shelter small homeless communities.
Moving east from the 24th Street viaduct the street is home to recent construction on the former Seaboard Air Line Railroad yard and spillover from the adjacent "Design District" around Dr Pepper Place in Lakeview.
On the relatively isolated stretch between 35th and 41st Streets there is frequent drag racing in the late evenings. Past 41st Street, 1st Avenue peters out into a local-access street.
Notable locations
- 1400-1798: Railroad Reservation Park
- 1415: Former Shoe Corp. warehouse, destroyed by fire in 2006.
- 1500: Merita bakery
- 1531: B & A Warehouse
- 1799: Standard at Midtown proposed condominium building
- 2000: The Daniel Building (Compass Bank headquarters)
- 2229: Davidson Design Group
- 2701: Goodwyn Mills and Cawood
- 2726: Alabama Ballet
- 2800: Seaboard Yard townhomes
- 2900: The Lamb Firm