AT&T City Center, Office skyscraper in Birmingham, Alabama.
AT&T City Center is a 30-story, 390-foot office tower in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, completed in 1972. Its facade is a stack of horizontal bands: dark reflective glass windows separated by rows of brown-orange panels, capped by a plain pale strip at the top. A lower section with a green-tinted glass grid and a pale pinkish roof edge joins the tower. The building is being converted into a residential apartment building called "The 600", with 404 units.
Completed in 1972 as the South Central Bell Building, the tower served as the corporate headquarters for South Central Bell and its five-state territory. Brasfield & Gorrie finished an $80 million renovation in 1998, when the building was renamed BellSouth City Center. BellSouth merged into AT&T in 2006 and the name changed to AT&T City Center; AT&T moved all employees out by March 2018. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The building achieved recognition on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020, reflecting its importance in Birmingham's commercial development throughout the decades.
A six-level parking structure is available for visitors and tenants. The central location at a major intersection makes it easy to access from different parts of downtown Birmingham.
The conversion into "The 600" plans 404 luxury apartments, with the 28th and 29th floors set aside for tenant amenities. A 600-space parking garage to the building's west serves residents. The tower was sold in November 2018 to VCP City Center, a joint venture of Varden Capital Properties and Tellus Partners, for $31 million.
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