2024 Top 40 Under 40 - Amanda Fowler

Congratulations to Amanda Fowler for being named a Top 40 Under 40 by the Birmingham Business Journal! Amanda is an exemplary leader in our firm and in our community. As CFO, her impact has been transformative, steering the company to unprecedented growth and success while playing a crucial role in the well-being of our community.

Starting as CFO/Controller in 2016, she became an equity partner in 2021 based on her record of guiding and driving the financial success of the firm over the last eight years. Amanda is not only a dynamic leader, but also supports the broad operations and health of the firm from a financial perspective.

2023 Top 40 Under 40 - Brittany Foley

Congratulations to Brittany Foley for being named a Top 40 Under 40 by the Birmingham Business Journal!

She is a key leader within the organization and was recently promoted to an equity partner. As a preservation architect with expertise in urban redevelopments, she promotes sympathetic and creative strategies to repurpose underutilized historic buildings into meaningful community assets in the state. In addition to a range of adaptive reuse projects, she has experience with projects utilizing the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program, Opportunity Zones and New Market Tax Credits. She has been instrumental in the adaptive reuse of the Hood McPherson into the new Auburn University Center in Birmingham and the restoration of Fort Morgan National Historic Landmark in Gulf Shores with the Alabama Historical Commission.

Brittany Foley & Preserving the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement

We are proud to partner with ACFA to present Civil Rights: People and Places. "Preserving the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement: Protecting the Campsites and Telling the Stories from Selma to Montgomery." ⁠

Tuesday, February 22, 12:00 - 1:00 PM via Zoom.

To commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March, the families and collaborative partners are working to stabilize the structures found at the three unprotected campsites. Preserving those important landmarks for future generations is a vital step in documenting the families' historic contributions to the Civil Rights movement and sharing their untold stories as part of our nation's history. ⁠

The Historic Greyhound Renovation Featured in DesignAlabama

“Our team had to carefully peel back layers of materials to uncover historic materials and then pursue a mindful restoration and an adaptive reuse of the bus station into office space with contemporary interventions." - Brittany Foley

AIA Alabama Awards Featured in Bham Now →

The Williams Blackstock Architects team was recognized by The State of Alabama American Institute of Architects (AIA) with five honorable awards this month and we are proud to have it covered on BhamNow.

New Frontiers for Historic Tax Credit

Brittany Foley, a preservation architect, talks about the opportunities for historic tax credits and the transformational spaces that preserve historic roots in the Magic City in the Birmingham Business Journal.

The Federal Reserve's Historic Lobby is pictured in a post-2015 renovation, thanks to historic tax credits. The renovation architect was Williams Blackstock with Capstone Real Estate Investments.

A 110-year-old warehouse, dubbed The Hardwick on the Rotary Trail, located at 23rd Street South is currently being renovated. The $24 million project will transform the building that was once the home of a fabricated and prefabricated steel-processing plant into office, retail and restaurant space. The Hardwick’s previous life as an open-air warehouse required extensive mechanical and electrical work to make the planned multi-floor bay possible.

“We’re doing some things that are very technical inside the building, and rather complex, in order for it be able to be serviced as a multi-level office space with the restaurants on the ground floor, Foley said. We’re pretty much weaving structure inside of an existing building and then reinforcing walls that are just cantilevered in place right now.”

— Brittany Foley