By Lee Roop
New retail shopping in Huntsville’s southeast quadrant and more than $40 million in construction at Redstone Gateway business park complex in west Huntsville led city building permits in July, records show.
Huntsville issued two building permits totaling almost $43 million for new office and professional space just off Interstate 565 at the Gateway office and residential complex at Redstone Gate 9. One permit was for $19.96 million in construction at 8200 Rideout Road and one was for $22.7 million at 6200 Redstone Gateway Road.
The developer is Corporate Office Properties Trust, a real estate investment trust, but details of the projects were not immediately available. Gateway is a large complex just off Interstate 565 at the Arsenal’s main gate.
The city also issued a $6.4 million permit for new construction at 6800 Moquin Drive on the west Huntsville campus of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. The institute has previously announced plans for $15 million in new construction including a 90,000-square-foot headquarters for Discovery Life Sciences and the HudsonAlpha Center for Plant Science and Sustainable Agriculture.
Other July permits with a construction value above $1 million included:
- A permit for $8.3 million in construction was issued for 4908 Moores Mill Road Unit B. The project was labeled “industrial” but details of the project were not available.
- $1.67 million in new industrial construction at 7400 Alabama Highway 20. Details were not immediately available.
- $1.3 million in alterations to office and professional space at 2 Parade St. in the Providence residential and commercial community.
- Just above $1 million in office and professional space at 3601 CCI Drive. That is the Clearview Cancer Institute complex.
- Two permits were issued for commercial development in southeast Huntsville at 1303 and 1305 Four Mile Post Road. The city issued one new construction permit for a $1.1 million project and one for $200,00 in new stores and services construction.
- Two commercial permits were issued for Oakwood Road in northwest Huntsville. One was for $1.2 million in new construction, occupant unlisted and one was for $916,423 at 5771 Oakwood Road. The listed occupant was Amuse Social & Rec.
In total, Huntsville issued 11 permits in July for $100,000-$500,000, one for $500,000-1 million and nine for one million and more. That makes 66 projects with $1 million or more in permits for the year to date.