Ensley,
Alabama
Ensley, Alabama • Client: City of Birmingham
SHP is currently completing a historic
resource survey and National Register nomination for the
downtown section of Ensley. Once the centerpiece of
Birmingham’s iron and steel industry, Ensley’s economic
fortunes declined with the closure of its factories in the
1970s. The community is hoping to stimulate revitalization
by qualifying local properties to utilize federal
rehabilitation tax credits and by promoting the area’s rich
history.
Ramsay-McCormack
Building
Ensley, AL • Client: Fuqua & Partners Architects
The Ramsay-McCormack Building is the only skyscraper in
Ensley, once the home of the largest industrial complex in
the Birmingham District. Long vacant, the building has been
both a symbol of the community’s proud history and of its
decline in the years since the closing of the local mills.
Listed on the statewide Places in Peril list in 2008,
prospects for the building seemed bleak. Veristar
Development Services operating as Ensley Centre, L.P.
acquired the building in August 2008 with the intent of
rehabilitating it into low and moderate income housing for
senior citizens. When the development team discovered that
in order to meet their lender’s requirements they had a
very short deadline for submitting a National Register
nomination, they turned to SHP.
SHP was able to complete the project
within ten days after receiving a notice to proceed thereby
keeping this important community revitalization project on
track.
Maclellan
Building
Chattanooga, TN • Client: Performance Hospitality Gr.,
Gainesville, GA
SHP is servive as the historic
preservation consultant for the prosed adaptive reuse of
the Maclelan Buiding in Chattanooga as a boutique hotel.
Design Review
Guidelines
Huntsville, Alabama • Client: City of Huntsville Historic
Preservation Commission
The City of Huntsville’s historic districts are exceptional
examples of how local historic designation and design
review can not only maintain the character of historic
neighborhoods but substantially improve property values as
well. SHP prepared a set of design guidelines to help the
city’s historic preservation commission make more
consistent decisions and to help promote a broader
community understanding about the design review process.
Historic
Preservation Component, Greater Downtown Plan
Tuscaloosa, Alabama • Client: Cooper Consulting, Inc.,
Dallas, Texas
Working as a subcontractor to Dallas-based Cooper
Consulting, Inc., SHP will be preparing the historic
preservation component for the Redevelopment/Urban Renewal
Study for Downtown Tuscaloosa – Greater Downtown Urban
Renewal Area. As part of the project, SHP will complete a
historic structures survey and prepare recommendations
related to historic preservation initiatives.
Tuscaloosa Urban Renewal Area
Tuscaloosa, Alabama • Client: Almon Associates, Inc.
SHP completed Historical American Buildings Survey
Documentation for three city blocks in downtown Tuscaloosa
that will be demolished to make way for a new federal
courthouse project. The project involved preparation of a
narrative history and architectural description of the
blocks and their individual buildings, large format and
digital photography, and measured streetscape drawings.
Lancaster
Floor Plant, Armstrong World Industries
Lancaster, Pennsylvania • Clients: EDC Finance Corporation
SHP coordinated the local, state and federal historic
preservation reviews for the demolition of a substantial
portion of the 2.6 million square foot Lancaster Floor
Plant of Armstrong Cork Company (now AWI). Once the largest
factory in the world producing linoleum, the plant was the
dominant leader among Lancaster County’s expansive and
diverse industrial sector for almost a century. Both
Franklin and Marshall College and the Lancaster General
Hospital will expand onto the site.
Historic
Preservation Planning Projects
Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina • Client: Town of
Sullivan’s Island
Traditionally the resort island for the residents of
Charleston, rising property values have resulted in the
demolition of many of the islands historic resources. SHP
has completed historic preservation component of a major
revision to the town’s planning and zoning ordinances
(2003), a National Register Multiple Property Documentation
Form and four historic district nominations (2006), and a
selected survey of buildings over sixty years old for
possible local designation (2007).