A sign at the Brookwood Village location of Books-A-Million shows that is closing, Thursday, May 28, 2020.Add another business to the roster of tenants to desert Brookwood Village, once one of the Birmingham area’s largest shopping malls.
Hickory Tavern, a bar and eatery at 595 Brookwood Village, has closed its doors. A Google search marks the business as “permanently closed.” With its departure, Five Guys, at 585 Brookwood Village, remains the only business in the traditional shopping center area. The Charlotte, N.C.-based Hickory Tavern chain was founded in 1997 and still has locations in North and South Carolina. The Brookwood Village location, its first in Alabama,Built in 1974, Brookwood Village later had a $35 million remodeling in the late 1990s, which added a streetscape with dining, and underwent a $20 million renovation after Cypress Equities bought the 816,000-square-foot mall in 2015.
The COVID-19 pandemic and shutdown was particularly unkind to Brookwood Village, prompting an exodus of tenants such as