Ensley’s tallest building had been standing for more than 90 years, but now it has come crashing down in a final act of demolition.
You can watch the mechanical demolition, completed Tuesday, in the video below.
Since 1929, the 10-story Ramsay-McCormack Building has towered over Ensley, a symbol of its once proud business district in a historic industrial hub of west Birmingham.
The demolished building will be replaced with a new office tower that will echo the old one, inspired by its architectural elements.
Demolition began in the fall of 2020. No explosives were used. It has been a long and mostly gradual process.
After years of legal wrangling over the building that the City of Birmingham bought for $1 from a private owner in 1983, building inspections determined that the building had been neglected so long it was unsalvageable and that its walls would not have been stable enough to keep.
Marble slabs, terra cotta ornamentation, the entrance window and more than 200 bricks from the original structure are being salvaged for use in the new building.
The new building will be five stories tall, but each floor will be much larger, making it only 18 feet shorter than the old building. The parapet at the rooftop will incorporate four stars, one at each corner, imitating the original building.
The new building, with 30,000 square feet of space, is expected to be completed in fall 2022, and will house offices for Innovation Depot, the City of Birmingham’s Business Diversity Team and Birmingham Promise, and other anchor tenants yet to be announced.
The City of Birmingham has already invested about $1.5 million in the project and has committed about $4 million overall in the public-private partnership in an effort to kick-start economic development in Ensley, once an industrial hub of Birmingham.
The shutdown of U.S. Steel’s Ensley Works steel mill in the early 1980s set off a ripple effect of businesses leaving, with an estimated 34,000 jobs lost in Ensley since then.
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