Construction begins on Cahaba Road condos

Bonnie Austin heard a lion roar outside her back door every day for two and a half years. In March she and her Cahaba Road neighbors bid their daily feline greeting from the nearby Birmingham Zoo good-bye as they moved to make way for The Manning, a new condominium development.

Ground broke for The Manning April 28. Eighty percent of the developments’ 14 units have been presold. Together they will take up about 2 acres where eight homes are currently located.

“It is not a large project, but I think it will have a large significance as it connects Mountain Brook Village and English Village,” real estate developer and longtime Mountain Brook resident Ron Durham said at the ground breaking.

The two-story building will be set back on the property with a landscape buffer between it and Cahaba Road. Units range from the $600,000s to $1 million.

The building is named for Warren H. Manning, the first landscape architect and land planner for Mountain Brook.  This Boston architect completed the master plan for the city in 1916.

Margie Ingram and her team at Ingram and Associates are handling the sales and marketing for the proejct, and B.L. Harbert International is the contractor. Barrett Architectural Studio and Environmental Design Studio are both involved with the development as well.

For more information, visit themanningcondos.com.