Birmingham Intermodal Facility
Birmingham Regional Intermodal Facility
The new Birmingham Regional Intermodal Facility will occupy a 316-acre site adjacent to the Jefferson Metropolitan Park in McCalla and is expected to open late-2012. The $97.5 million facility is part of Norfolk Southern’s multi-state Crescent Corridor initiative to establish an efficient, high-capacity intermodal freight rail route between the Gulf Coast and the Northeast.
The intermodal terminal will bring significant economic growth and thousands of jobs to Alabama. Economic analysis indicates the facility, will create or preserve 8,600 jobs in central Alabama over the next 10 years, and 13,000 jobs by 2030, and it is expected to have a cumulative 20-year economic impact of $8 billion on the region.
In 2010, the Birmingham Regional Intermodal Facility was selected to participate in the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES™) Pilot Program. This national initiative seeks to establish and encourage sustainable practices throughout each phase of a landscape’s design, construction, operation, and maintenance periods. NS will also construct the main administrative building to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certification standards.
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