Gov. Kay Ivey this afternoon announced the coming of Grand River Technology Park, along with the relocation of the Southern Museum of Flight.

The project, expected to have an economic impact of $85 million, brings together the Alabama Department of Labor’, U. S. Steel, the cities of Birmingham and Leeds, the Southern Museum of Flight and Jefferson County.

In a news release, the Grand River Technology Park is described as a “multiphase opportunity to reclaim and transform approximately 105 acres of undeveloped land surrounding and including several pre-1977 abandoned coal mine lands in east Jefferson County.”

State officials estimate about 1,200 jobs could come from the project.

“This reclamation project has the potential to bring millions of dollars in economic impact, and hundreds of jobs to the Greater Birmingham area,” Ivey said in a statement. “The new Grand River Technology Park will be a regional nexus for research and development, tourism and light manufacturing."

In 2018, approval was given for a $6 million grant by the ADOL Abandoned Mine Land Program Pilot Program toward the development of the park.

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