Attractions

McWane Science Center

200 19th Street N
Birmingham, AL 35203

Adventures in learning surround you at McWane Center . The museum offers a hands-on, creative examination of the worlds around us in a renovated department store housing 150,000 square feet of educational science equipment, and a 42,000-square-foot IMAX theater. The energy that fuels the McWane Center is as exciting and engaging as the human imagination. Come see the wonders of our world in action, and leave with new-found perspectives.

Sports

Birmingham Barons

Affiliate of the Chicago White Sox
Double A Baseball
Member of the Southern League

Businesses

Castle Metals

3900 Pinson Valley Parkway
Birmingham, AL 35217

Founded in 1890, A. M. Castle & Co. is a specialty metals and plastics distribution company serving the North American market, principally within the producer durable equipment sector. Its customer base includes many Fortune 500 companies as well as thousands of medium and smaller-sized firms spread across a wide spectrum of industries. Within its core metals business, it specializes in the distribution of carbon, alloy and stainless steels; nickel alloy; and aluminum. Through its subsidiary, Total Plastics, Inc., the Company also distributes a broad range of value-added industrial plastics. Together, Castle operates over 50 locations throughout North America. Its common stock is traded on the American and Chicago Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CAS".

Liberty National Life Insurance Company

Liberty National Life Insurance Company, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, traces its origin back to 1900 when its predecessor was founded as the Heralds of Liberty, a fraternal organization. In 1929 Liberty National was incorporated as a stock company.
Today Liberty National is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Torchmark Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange listed company (TMK), a Forbes Platinum 400 company, and one of the largest publicly held life and health insurers in the nation. Torchmark's subsidiary companies specialize in all areas of individual life and health insurance

Vulcan Materials

Vulcan Materials Company provides infrastructure materials that are required by the American economy. We are the nation’s largest producer of construction aggregates and a leader in the production of other construction materials.
Our construction materials segment produces aggregates - primarily crushed stone, sand and gravel - that are used in nearly all forms of construction. In particular, large quantities of aggregates are used to build roads and nonresidential properties.