Site excavation work is beginning on the 200-unit Mural@Stovehouse apartment community just a couple of hundred feet from entertainment venue Stovehouse near downtown Huntsville.

The city of Huntsville issued five permits for buildings valued at $8.8 million each at 2900 Fourth Avenue N.W. to Tennessee-based Bristol Development Group last week, according to Southern Exposure information.

Hardaway Construction is listed as the builder.

Mural@Stovehouse “is going to be literally 150 feet, if that, from all of those entertainment and food offerings that Stovehouse has,” Bristol Development founding principal Sam Yeager told The Lede in an earlier interview. “It’s going to be like an extra room in their house. That was very instrumental in us choosing that location.”

Work on Mural@Stovehouse is expected to be completed by early 2025, according to Bristol Senior Vice President Scott Black.

About 90% of the apartments will be one-bedroom, with the rest two-bedroom apartments.