The new management group for Bankhead Towers, which was condemned last month and evacuated on Thursday, says all the residents are gone and the building is vacant, ready for repairs.

“All residents have been relocated to nearby hotels while we make critical repairs to the building,” said the statement from Paths Management Services, which recently replaced Millennia as the building manager.

“Bankhead Towers is now under new management, and our priority is to make significant improvements as rapidly as possible so that the building can be deemed safe and residents can return home to the quality housing they deserve.”

More than a dozen Birmingham police officers helped coordinate the evacuation of dozens of remaining residents Thursday from the privately owned, federally subsidized residence for the elderly and disabled.

“We all know that it was a travesty what occurred with respect to the moving out of our elderly at Bankhead,” said U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell on Friday. “I look forward to working with our community and other civic and political leaders to do something about it.”

Residents said Thursday they were being taken to hotels for 15 to 20 days. Paths provided the transportation and hotel rooms.

Other agencies were contacted for assistance.

“We are working with the city to provide some resources for the residents of Bankhead,” said Dontrelle Young-Foster, president and CEO of the Housing Authority of the Birmingham District.

“Because they’re not our residents, we don’t manage their company nor do we manage the facility itself,” she said. “We don’t provide any funding to Bankhead Towers at all. It would go through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.”

HABD may have resources to assist in making sure all residents have housing, she said. “We’re providing support as needed,” she said.

“The building has previously been condemned and determined to be unsafe and unfit for human habitation,” said Rick Journey, spokesman for the City of Birmingham.

“It is the property owner’s responsibility to ensure residents vacate the premises. While the vast majority of residents have been relocated, a small number of residents have not departed. The city is exercising its process in the condemnation procedure to ensure the safety of the remaining residents. Social services have been engaged to assist residents at the scene.”

Sherry Bray, a social worker and executive director of First Light women’s shelter, was helping organize people, get them in taxis and to hotels.

“People are getting what they need,” she said.

Bankhead Towers, at 2300 Fifth Ave. North, was built in 1923 and can house up to 251 residents.

Bankhead Towers is 15-story former hotel where baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson once lived as a minor leaguer and where legendary Coach Bear Bryant’s Crimson Tide football team used to stay on weekends when the team played games at Legion Field.