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SANTA ROSA BEACH, Fla. – Young Professionals @ the Beach (YP@TB), the area’s premier organization for up and coming business men and women, were the lucky guests to tour the nearly completed Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport (ECP) in Panama City on April 14th. The local group boarded a tour bus guided by Access Public … Read More

Source: The Birmingham News – article by Michael Tomberlin Nextran Truck Center’s Birmingham operation has purchased its building and adjacent property as it pursues expansion. Officials at the Jacksonville, Fla.-based network of medium and heavy-duty truck sales and service centers spent months looking around the metro area for a new site to buy but ended … Read More

Source: Birmingham Business Journal – by Lauren B. Cooper BBVA Compass recently signed a multiyear lease for more than 50,000 square feet of space at SurModics Pharmaceuticals’ new facility off Lakeshore Parkway. The bank is taking the space in SurModics’ 130,000-square-foot office tower, which it purchased in 2008 along with a distribution center that was … Read More

Source: Birmingham Business Journal John Coleman of Graham & Co. represented GE Capital in the disposition of the former Expressions Cabinetry facility in Gadsden. The 55,000-square-foot building was purchased by United Caseworks and will continue to be used for cabinet manufacturing. Coleman also represented Thistle Properties in the acquisition of a 10,000-square-foot office warehouse off … Read More

Source: Birmingham News A cabinet company is taking over space and equipment left behind by another cabinet company in Gadsden. United Casework paid $775,000 for the 55,000 sf former Expressions Cabinetry facility in Gadsden. United also purchased the equipment in the building from the former lenders and is preparing to begin manufacturing cabinets by June, … Read More

Source: Birmingham News Waste Pro USA Inc. plans to invest $3.2 million in an operation in Tarrant that could eventually have up to 125 workers as the company collects garbage contracts with communities throughout the metro area. Longwood, Fla.-based Waste Pro has leased the 121,750-square-foot former Clean Earth Environmental building off Pinson Valley Parkway near … Read More

Source: Birmingham News A coffee battle is brewing in Birmingham. Baton Rouge-based Community Coffee has infiltrated the Birmingham market with a new sales and distribution center in the Oxmoor Valley. Matt Saurage, chief executive of the 91-year-old company, said he believes Birmingham needs another strong regional brand to compete at the retail level in grocery … Read More

Source: Birmingham Business Journal With a manufacturing base, proximity to several interstate highways and a number of industrial parks, the Birmingham region is clearly attractive to the railroad industry. That was particularly true in the case of Norfolk Southern, which announced plans in 2009 to invest $112 million to build an intermodal facility in McCalla. … Read More

Source: Birmingham Business Journal It’s no small trick, finding a place to transfer manufacturing materials from trains onto trucks. Yet developers located just such a patch of ground in their efforts to create the CSX Intermodal Facility in Bessemer. “Birmingham is topographically challenged in the first place. Trying to piece together 25 acres of flat … Read More

Source: Birmingham Business Journal Liberty Pipe’s new home within the 115-acre Interstate Industrial Park in Bessemer bears little, if any, resemblance to the Pullman railway manufacturing facility that once occupied the site. To revive the building after six dormant years, developers renovated the electrical system, removed five large paint booths, replaced roof tiles, added drive-in … Read More