A 30,000 mixed-use development near Regions Field will welcome its first tenant this summer after a more than $2 million renovation.

LIV Development and Corporate Realty are partnering on developing Bakers Row, a mixed-use development named for its former function: a Merita Bread factory.

KPS Group is the project's architect, as well as the building's first tenant. Murray Building Co. is the general contractor. Meredith Calhoun of Corporate Realty is handling leasing. Walter Schoel Engineering Co. is the civil engineer.

Blaine House, Director of Operations for Murray Building, said developers are in talks with national restaurant groups, but nothing is set for the 13,000 square-feet in available restaurant space. The development will also feature covered parking.

"It will have ample parking," House said. "We're looking to have our first tenant in by the start of summer."

The Merita Bakery closed in November 2012 and 90 workers lost their jobs in the wake of the bankruptcy of parent company Hostess Brands Inc. Hostess has since been purchased and re-launched by a new owner who did not buy and renew operations at the Birmingham bakery.

The adaptive re-use project will keep features like "Sawtooth glass" windows, which are often found on older factories. Sawtooth roofs feature glass angled to diffuse light but keep out summer heat. But it will feature all new hardscaping and landscaping that will compliment its neighbor, Regions Field.

Developers gave tours of the project Monday as part of Alabama Associated General Contractors political reception.