Education Edition - 1736 Magazine, Fall 2019

By DAMON CLINE
Most of the anticipation
surrounding the $94 million
Riverfront at the
Depot development has
been focused on buildings
– a 143-unit apartment community, a
100,000-square-foot office tower and more than
16,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.
It’s easy to forget a substantial portion of the
mixed-use development at the corner of Sixth and
Reynolds streets will be public greenspace.
And developers of the project hope the community
gets as much enjoyment from the lawn as they
do the buildings.
“We do hope and expect we can energize that
greenspace with as much public activity as we
can,” said Mike Carpenter, a principal with BLOC
Global Group, the Birmingham, Ala.-based company
developer behind the Riverfront at the Depot
project.
Carpenter said he hopes the greenspace, which
would be between the renovated historic train depot
building and the apartment buildings, would be
a place for residents, business customers and the
general community to enjoy regular programs and
events.
The Riverfront at the Depot, a $94 million mixed-use development on a long-vacant city-owned tract along the river near Sixth and Reynolds streets.
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