a place to play, create, connect, and slow down
Sloss Furnaces is where Birmingham found its strength. Iron poured here shaped a city and defined a generation of workers whose labor built more than industry — they built community. This transformational project will reclaim historic ground and turn it into a dynamic civic landscape — a place where history, public life, and creativity meet.
While preserving Sloss as a monument to the past, we are also activating it as an investment in the future of the community we serve.
Sloss Furnaces will reimagine our 32 acre historic industrial site as an accessible, connected public environment. Thoughtfully designed green space, gathering areas, educational features, and interpretive elements will invite daily use while honoring the our industrial legacy.
Families will play and explore. Students will engage with history firsthand. Artists and entrepreneurs will find space to create. Visitors will experience the story of the industrial South not as static exhibits, but as living context.
Great cities invest in places that shape identity and opportunity. Sloss Furnaces strengthens our Region's cultural infrastructure while expanding public access to one of its most important landmarks. This project supports education, workforce development, tourism growth, and neighborhood vitality. It creates shared space that welcomes diverse communities while telling our unique story of labor, resilience, and innovation.
Sloss Furnaces is not simply a park. It is civic infrastructure — designed to generate social, cultural, and economic returns for decades.
Transformational projects require visionary partners.
Your gift in support of Sloss Furnaces is an opportunity to align with our shared history and help define its future. Corporate and foundation leaders have the chance to support a project that advances education, community access, public health and wellness, economic vitality, and cultural preservation in one unified vision.
We invite you to join us — not as observers, but as builders. Together, we can create a landmark civic space that honors those who forged this city and inspires those who will shape its next century.
