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Popular Five Points South District to See $23M Hotel Construction continues on a $23 million hotel planned for the popular Five points south district in Birmingham, Ala. situated on heavily traveled 20th street south, Homewood suites by Hilton in Five points south is expected to open this fall. “It will be the first extended-stay product for the downtown area for Hilton hotels in Birmingham,” said rakesh patel, president of pelham, Alabama-based AUM Enterprises Inc. “We are getting great reviews from the city and community. It has added the needed push to get other things started in this area of Birmingham. the hotel will serve not only UAB guests, but also banking, insurance and health care industries.” patel called the site an ideal location. “Five points has a mix of customer base, with a neighbor and commercial appeal. With all the trend toward ‘downtowns’ across the nation, we feel this was the best time to build.” the project was given the go ahead by a design review committee several years ago, but various issues reportedly delayed construction. specifically, a number of adjustments to the original plans had to be made before work could commence. “It’s like putting a large puzzle together,” said patel. “We started with an off-the-wall idea of putting a hotel in the area back in 2009, came back to it in 2011 and then watched it top out in the spring of this year.” the seven-story hotel will feature 105 rooms, each with a full kitchen. It will also offer an indoor pool, 24-hour fitness center, meeting rooms, a two-story lobby and an outdoor grill and patio. Work began in July 2015 and should be completed this october. According to nick Miele, vice-president of operations of Birmingham-based Wyatt General Contractor LLC, “the project is in a tight space in an urban environment. tight coordination with certain deliveries had to be same-day installation, as there was no room on site for storage. this is very important, therefore your schedule must be tight and maintained. “As the project is a brand name hotel, the owner went over and beyond on the design and style to blend with the art deco feel within this area of town. It wasn’t your standard hotel. this was a true custom designed hotel to fit a tight space and a certain feel.” Currently, crews are installing the EIFs and windows around the perimeter of the hotel. Key tasks yet to be carried out involve coordination of all detailed finishes that will be included in the building. this includes tile, mill work,
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Construction continues on a $23 million hotel planned for the popular Five Points South district in Birmingham, Ala. Situated on heavily traveled 20th Street South, Homewood Suites by Hilton in Five Points South is expected to open this fall.
wall covering and decorative elements. “It is fully topped out, and the roofing is complete,” said Miele. “We are installing drywall on the fourth floor of the building. the structure is complete, consisting of steel, load bearing CMU and hollow core concrete planks. All went according to plan.” Miele said that the indoor pool has to be excavated and built before the building walls are enclosed for access purposes. “You typically don’t want to do this too soon without a roof, or some type of cover, so it won’t stay saturated.” the urban environment also has been a concern for crews, who must constantly be aware of shoppers and moving vehicles.
“You have to worry about the safety of your work force, in addition to the surrounding pedestrians. It’s just another level of management that has to be maintained,” said Miele. the project didn’t call for a great deal of excavation, as the site was primarily flat. “the hotel sits on a spot where a building used to be,” Miele said. “An existing building had to be demolished first, which was sandwiched against ‘Bailey Brothers Music Company’ and an existing alley. We had to be careful not to damage the adjacent building. total demo and clean up took about two weeks. We used a trackhoe and dump trucks. “once that was complete, the site had to be leveled and the building pad installed. two adjacent sites were also see HILTON page 6
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Designers Incorporate Art Deco Style Into Building Facade HILTON from page 1
included for future parking lots. We went ahead and installed all the parking lots first, along with the building pad, in order to have space for job trailers and material.” Main equipment being used on the project has included a tower crane, a material hoist, man lifts and lulls. Structural steel, CMU load bearing walls, heavy metal studs, hollow core concrete planks, EIFS and brick are among the main materials being utilized during construction. As for the most time consuming part of the work, “Since the building is unique and custom, the owner is constantly changing things. Having to juggle this change is challenging; however, good open communication has been key to this project,” said Miele. “We are honored and extremely excited to be a part of this project in a very popular area of Birmingham.” Richard Rauh & Associates of Atlanta was selected as architect for the new hotel. Richard Rauh, AIA, said, “We’ve served as architects on hotels for Hilton Hotels Worldwide for over 30 years. In the case of this project, the proximity to the medical and hospital community indicated a need for a suite type hospitality solution, in order to host families Wyatt Construction photo and visitors coming to The seven-story hotel will feature 105 rooms, each with a full kitchen. receive those services. The of 1930s art deco buildings. and consistent with the details one can find Homewood Suites is a per“The site the owner was able in art history books on French and European fect Hilton solution to that to purchase for his development art deco of the 1920s throughout the USA, demand.” was originally built on during especially in larger cities. The modest late Being environmentally the Depression, with a Piggly 1938 to 39 deco one finds in Miami Beach, conscious was important to Wiggly food store. The food which came when building resumed after the creative team, according store had a handsome one-story the worst of the Great Depression had to Rauh. cut limestone facade with con- passed, is quite different from the extrava“All upper-tier hotels in siderable art deco ornament. gant art deco of the Roaring 1920s. The 2016 that fly the flag of the The city of Birmingham and the greatest art deco hotel of them all, of course, industry’s leading brand owner agreed his multi-story is the Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel in names are designed to meet hotel development would be Cincinnati, designed in 1928, which is a contemporary standards for designed on the assumption it national landmark. We restored that hotel 20 energy efficiency, sustainwould incorporate the exact years ago, and much of our knowledge about ability and long-term durastreet level character of the orig- European art deco comes from the 10 years bility of the built environinal art deco shop front. The we spent working on that magnificent buildment. This is true from a new hotel will have a re-created ing. civil engineering standpoint, shopfront that’s a precise repli“The details we’ve been able to add to this as well as an architectural, ca of the original Piggly Wiggly Birmingham project blend well with the mechanical and electrical limestone facade. The material touch of art deco detailing one finds, here one. The efficiencies of the we’re using is Indiana lime- and there, throughout the Five Points South HVAC systems in hotels are Richard Rauh & Associates of Atlanta rendering significantly higher now A rendering of the completed Homewood Suites by Hilton in Five stone, and the deco detail has historic district. The city of Birmingham has been meticulously reproduced been very wise to recognize the cultural than they were 20 years ago, Points South. using modern digital technolo- resources that it has in Five Points South, for example.” gy, both in design and fabrica- especially the art deco ones, and in working Rauh said the new hotel medical center. This is an area of the city administratively to protect and preserve includes an art deco facade that will blend where new hospitality services are in tion, said Rauh. Rauh said art deco detailing and art motifs them.” with other buildings in the area. demand. The vision of the project is to be (This story also can be found on “The owner’s site is located in the historic responsive to the hospitality needs of the dis- have been used throughout the public areas Five Points South historic district of trict, and also to sustain the historic character of the structure, both inside and on the exte- Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) Birmingham, which also is the location of of Five Points South, which contains many rior. “The motifs are academically accurate CEG the University of Alabama Birmingham of Birmingham’s most interesting examples
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