Pediatric health care ER in Huntsville one of 4 new high-dollar projects in North Alabama

355693260 812876310687542 213453375834992360 n — Wellstone Behavioral Health is building a mental health ER for kids. (Chapman Sisson)

Of the 13 new building permits for high-dollar projects in Alabama issued this week, four of them are in North Alabama — two in Huntsville, one in Madison and one in Decatur.

One of those projects is the highly anticipated mental health care ER for kids. Here’s more info about that project and more in the Huntsville area.

Wellstone Behavioral Health Pediatric ER

355695990 812876344020872 869579960671493904 n — Wellstone Beavioral Health’s pediatric ER is one of the new high-dollar projects in the Huntsville area. (Chapman Sisson)

WellStone is building an urgently needed inpatient mental health care center for children, the first facility of its kind in North Alabama. Ground was broken on the new facility Friday.

This is a 24-bed, 12,000 sq. ft. mental healthcare center
It will stand adjacent to WellStone Emergency Services for adults at 4020 Memorial Parkway SW, Huntsville, AL 35802
The facility is expected to be completed in 2024

More on these new high-dollar projects

Thanks to our friends at Southern Exposure Information, we have the list of all new million-dollar-plus construction permits approved in Alabama last week. Each week, they pull together information from new building permits issued to get all the details on these projects. You can get access to all of their construction permits right here.

Here’s this week’s list of high-dollar building permits issued in the Huntsville area:

Date	City	Builder	Owner of Project	Project Address	Project State	Amount
06/21/2023	Decatur	Hardco Inc	Decatur Morgan Hospital Decatur Campus	1201 7th St SE	AL	$1,200,000
06/21/2023	Huntsville	The Robins & Morton Group Inc	Jim Flowers	1000 Glenn Hearn Blvd SW	AL	$13,337,932
06/21/2023	Huntsville	Fite Construction	Wellstone Inc	4020 Memorial Parkway SW	AL	$8,807,606
06/22/2023	Madison	Venture Construction Company	Owner Not Listed	121 Outfield Drive	AL	$2,773,020

Past Permits

TMMAL Solar Array Hero Image 1 — Last week’s permits for high-dollar projects included the solar projects at the Toyota plant in Huntsville. (PR Newswire)

In case you may have missed any of our previous reports on building permits issued for high-dollar projects in Alabama, here are some of our reports from the last several weeks:

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