Alabama NewsCenter — New Cooper Green building groundbreaking held Jan. 9

By Donna Cope

Cooper Green Mercy Health broke ground on a new building to house its clinical operations Monday, Jan. 9. It will be built on the site of the former Cooper Green parking deck, which was demolished in 2022.

Under an agreement between the Jefferson County Commission and the UAB Health System, the Cooper Green Mercy Health Services Authority was created in April 2020 to manage Cooper Green. The new and improved building will replace the current clinical building, which dates to the early 1970s. The current building is costly to maintain and is no longer suited to the efficient delivery of modern ambulatory health care, said David Randall, chief strategy officer for the UAB Health System and board president and CEO of the Cooper Green Mercy Health Services Authority.

The new Cooper Green Mercy Health building will be five stories tall and 211,000 square feet. Overall estimated cost is $120 million, and completion is expected in early 2025. Cooper Green Mercy Health will continue to provide clinical services in the existing building until the new building opens.

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