Building and Site Evaluation


Alabama Power’s economic development team focuses on providing world-class site selection services with the intent to save you time and money during the site evaluation and selection phase while providing the local knowledge and data necessary to make the best comparison and ultimate business decision.


Building and Site Search

Our building and site database allows you to search for buildings and sites statewide to assist in the site selection process in Alabama.  You have the capability to:  

  • Run demographic reports (with custom radii and drive time) for each property,
  • View images of each property,
  • View each select properties in “street view” and a high-res “bird’s eye view
  • View airports, places of interest, railroads, waterways, two year colleges, and four-year colleges around each site can be viewed. 
  • Compare multiple properties
  • Save properties to see at a later date.
  • Search properties in a custom geographical using our Polygon tool

Community Comparison Tool

Our Community Comparison Tool allows you to compare counties in Alabama to any county in the United States. The tool allows you to compare an Alabama county with up to 8 other counties. A wealth of demographic data is displayed in an easy to read format. Click here to compare communities. The following reports can be created:

  • Demographic Reports
  • Executive Summary with Charts
  • Workforce Summary
  • Demographic Trend Summary
  • 2000 Census Employment Summary

Detailed Site Due Diligence

Our GIS, engineering, and corporate real estate groups can provide visualizations of your facility in a variety of configurations and on multiple sites. By adding existing or planned infrastructure improvements, we can help you visualize and compare your site options

Our resources allow us to prepare unparalleled community/labor and site profiles and supporting mapping and imagery products based on your site assessment criteria and specifications.

Our environmental, engineering and GIS teams enable us to provide you with topographic, geotechnical surveys and analysis to include Phase I Environmental and all natural disaster planning such as floodplain mapping and other storm data.

Advantage Site Program

Communities better position their industrial sites through a new designation called AdvantageSite. To meet the needs of industry, Alabama’s economic development community is working to designate an inventory of industrial sites with key documentation for accurate, timely project evaluation.This documentation is crucial, as companies have less time and shorter deadlines in which to evaluate sites.  

AdvantageSite is a voluntary program that allows communities to demonstrate due diligence has been done. This does not imply that other properties in Alabama don’t meet the same criteria.  It does mean designated sites have undergone a vetting process to show that important information about a site is readily available. A site awarded AdvantageSite designation has met certain standards related to ownership, accessibility, infrastructure, planning and zoning, and environmental and geotechnical due diligence.

As of February 2011, 26 sites have achieved advantage site designation. Click here to view list of AdvantageSites in Alabama.

The Alabama AdvantageSite program is jointly sponsored by Alabama Power Company, the Alabama Development Office, Alabama Gas Corporation, , the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama, North Alabama Industrial Development Association, and PowerSouth Energy Cooperative.

Get more information on the AdvantageSite Program, on the EDPA website.