Reviewed by: Sarah Gronberg
Drake State Manufacturing Center among new building permits
Two new building permits were approved statewide this week for construction projects exceeding $1 million, and both are for projects in Huntsville.
One of those new building permits is for the Advanced Manufacturing Center at Drake State Community and Technical College. Here’s what we know about these projects:
New buildings at Drake State Community + Technical College
Fite Building Company is the lead contractor for the new Advanced Manufacturing Center at Drake State.
The project includes two 50,000-square-foot buildings consisting of classrooms, welding and machine tool labs, industrial and electronic labs, additive manufacturing and additional academic spaces.
The buildings are single story structures with interior equipment platforms and an integral tornado shelter.
About these new construction projects
Thanks to our friends at Southern Exposure Information, we have the list of all new million-dollar-plus construction projects approved in Alabama last week. Each week, they pull together information from building permits issued to get all the details on these projects. You can get access to all of their construction permits right here.
Here are the new building permits approved for million-dollar-plus projects this week in Huntsville:
Date | City | Builder | Owner of Project | Project Address | Amount |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
09/06/2023 | Huntsville | JS Building Company Inc | Thomas Lavelle | 11515 Gilleland Rd SE | $1,215,359 |
09/06/2023 | Huntsville | Fite Construction | Drake State Comm College | 3401 Meridian St NW | $18,449,399 |
Past permits you may have missed
In case you might have missed any of our previous reports on million-dollar-plus building permits issued in Alabama, here are some fo the reports we published in recent months:
- April 11, 2023
- April 18, 2023
- April 25, 2023
- May 1, 2023
- May 8, 2023
- May 15, 2023
- May 23, 2023
- May 30, 2023
- June 6, 2023
- June 21, 2023
- June 28, 2023
- July 3, 2023
- July 12, 2023
- July 18, 2023
- July 25, 2023
- July 31, 2023
- August 7, 2023
- August 14, 2023
- August 21, 2023
- August 29, 2023
- Sept. 5, 2023
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