Consolidated Pipe and Supply Company, which currently has its headquarters on the campus of Birmingham-Southern College, plans to build a new headquarters off Lakeshore Parkway in Birmingham.

The Birmingham City Council approved rezoning Tuesday for a light manufacturing district for 28 acres located at 705 Tom Martin Drive and 801 Lakeshore Parkway, which the city would sell to the company. The new Consolidated Pipe headquarters would include a corporate office, sales office and distribution center.

Consolidated Pipe CEO Barry Howton told the council that the company had already donated its current headquarters building, valued at $2.5 million, to Birmingham-Southern College in December 2022 and since January 2023 has been paying BSC rent.

The current headquarters is located near the football stadium at Birmingham-Southern College on Hilltop Parkway.

Consolidated Pipe has operated a coating facility and warehouse in Ensley since July 1960, one of its 70 locations across the country. It manufactures pipe for use in water, sewer and gas lines. It’s owned by the Kerr family, which is in its third generation of ownership, Howton said.

The office on the BSC campus was intended for 60 employees, but now has 100 employees, Howton said. “We have just grown so much,” Howton said.

Once the new headquarters is built, it will make room to add another 20 new jobs, he said.

There would be some storage of mostly PVC and polyethylene pipe on the 14 developed acres of the new campus, he said. The remainder of the property will remain wooded to provide a buffer from nearby neighborhoods.

Several residents of Oxmoor Village, 2710 Wenonah Oxmoor Road, a housing development with nine subdivisions, expressed concerns about light and noise from the new campus during the construction of the headquarters building. The Oxmoor Valley Neighborhood Association voted in favor of the project.

Council members Hunter Williams and Darrell O’Quinn thanked Howton for the company keeping its headquarters in Birmingham.

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