About
Joseph H. McClure, Jr. of Joseph McClure Commercial Real Estate, L.L.C. has worked in commercial real estate in Birmingham, Alabama, since 1976. Mr. McClure has considerable experience in commercial and investment real estate brokerage and leasing but specializes in tenant/investor representation and creating solutions for problem properties. For the past eighteen years his concentration has been in the revitalization of Southside and downtown Birmingham which has included analyzing property utilization, renovation and marketing of historic buildings. Though he is experienced in suburban real estate and office parks, his expertise is Birmingham’s downtown commercial market. Having been responsible for the leasing and management of as much as 600,000 square feet of office and retail space at a time, he has become proficient in space layout and coordination, construction, historic restoration, cost analysis, and lease and contract negotiations. In the past thirty years Mr. McClure has renovated and restored dozens of historic commercial and residential buildings, as well as being the real estate representative and consultant to many of Birmingham’s most prominent businesses and law firms in leasing or buying commercial properties. In August 1989, Joseph McClure Commercial Real Estate (JMCRE) was established. The company’s primarily purpose was to represent investors and tenants and to participate as a developer in the revitalization of downtown Birmingham through acquisition and renovation of historic properties. Since that time he has developed more than twenty-five million dollars in real estate. He handled the entire redevelopment of the Burger-Phillips Centre, a 172,000 square foot downtown office/retail complex which joined two buildings with a twenty-one thousand square foot glass atrium. He completed the conversion of The Ideal Building, a thirty thousand square foot, 1928 department store into a modern office building. Among other projects recently completed are the Forest Park Building on Clairmont Avenue, the Payless Drug Store Building at 216 North Twentieth Street, the Vintage Building at 310 Twenty-first Street North, the Meelheim Building at 2013 Second Avenue North, the Philippi- Mastin House (built in 1850) in Mobile and the Spencer Building at 2121 Second Avenue North, all historic downtown properties. Renovation of The Iron-Age Building, one of the last two remaining cast iron front buildings in Birmingham, is expected to be his next project.
Mr. McClure created and is now directing the marketing of Birmingham’s newest entertainment area, The Theater District. His office is compiling pertinent information on all vacant retail spaces within the District, regardless of whether or not the property is listed and marketing the area as a whole. This project is expected to bring new clubs, restaurants and entertainment venues to the city center and create a nightlife that downtown Birmingham has not seen in many years.