On This Day In Alabama History: Competition Announced For Birmingham ‘Civic Activities Center’

Alabama News Center | June 22, 2019 @ 5:00 am

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

Birmingham and Jefferson County officials hosted a press luncheon at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on this day to announce a design competition for a new “civic activities center” for Birmingham. The area, which would include sports and performing arts venues and exhibition space, would become the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center (now the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex). Architects with at least four years’ professional registration were eligible. About 900 design firms requested specifications, and judges received 277 submissions. Entries were displayed at Boutwell Municipal Auditorium during the week of Nov. 11, 1966.

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