HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - The Quigley Arts & Entertainment District in downtown Huntsville is growing.

Twickenham Square, the old Coca-Cola bottling plant site and a city parking lot where Charlie Sealy III intends to build a mixed-use apartment building were added to the district at Thursday night's City Council meeting.

The changes tack 30 acres onto the larger of two downtown entertainment districts; it now sprawls basically from Huntsville Hospital to the Searcy Homes public housing development.

Inside both the Quigley and Meridian entertainment districts, people can roam with alcohol in special to-go cups during designated hours.

The Quigley district already included the historic Courthouse Square, Big Spring International Park, Von Braun Center, Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama Constitution Village, Embassy Suites and the old Holiday Inn property, which is set to be redeveloped as restaurants, shops, offices and a boutique hotel.

Jim McGuffey, the city's manager of planning services, said the expanded Quigley district will now cover about 136 acres. Alabama law allows entertainment zones up to 160 acres.

The changes approved Thursday lasso several downtown parcels that have been redeveloped recently or are in line for improvements.

Twickenham Square, which opened last year at the corner of Gallatin Street and Lowe Avenue, includes the 246-unit Artisan apartments, Publix grocery store, Homewood Suites hotel, Twickenham Place mixed-use office tower and two restaurants, Asian Rim and Taco Mama. More eateries are scheduled to open in the coming weeks.

The nine-acre former Coca-Cola property on Clinton Avenue is rumored to be the site of a future mixed-use hotel development.

The city plans to lease the public parking lot at the corner of Holmes Avenue and Jefferson Street to Sealy, who has said he will develop a $30 million-plus apartment building called The Avenue with multiple restaurants on the ground floor.

McGuffey said the new Quigley entertainment district boundaries include parts of Holmes, Spragins and Lowe avenues, Church Street and Gallatin Street, as well as the new Downtown Gateway road off Governors Drive.

The 301 East condominium building on Holmes Avenue is also now part of the entertainment district.