Downtown's first Publix will open Nov. 30 if construction goes as planned.

The 30,000-square-foot Publix with a full-service pharmacy will anchor 20 Midtown, $100 million-plus development by RGS Properties' Dick Schmalz and Scott Bryant of Scott M. Bryant & Co.

Downtown Birmingham will no longer be a food desert. Though there are grocery stores on downtown's periphery like the Western Market on Highland Avenue and Piggly Wiggly on Clairmont, there's no full service grocery store in the heart of the city.

The Publix anchors one building of the three-building development at the intersection of Third Avenue South and 20th Street.

The first building is anchored by Starbucks, and also houses the development's leasing office, an SRS office, and a Chipotle Mexican Grill. The final retail space in the building was just signed to AT&T, making the first phase of the development 100 percent leased.

The Starbucks-anchored building has 36 apartments on top of it. Across the street, the Publix building will have 86 apartments, mostly 1-bedrooms with some 2-bedrooms.

The third building is planned to start construction in the next 90 days, Schmalz said.

Tammy Cohen of Cohen Carnaggio Reynolds is the architect. Martin Smith of SRS Real Estate Partners is managing leasing the retail space.