May 14, 2024 - Southern Business & Development

Southern Nuclear taps CEO to oversee Alabama, Georgia plants

Posted on May 14, 2024October 25, 2024 by Michael Randle

Peter Sena, president of Southern Nuclear, will take over as chairman and CEO of the Southern Co. subsidiary.

Sena will replace Stephen Kuczynski, who plans to retire on June 28, Southern Co. announced.

Kuczynski joined Southern Nuclear in 2011 and was part of the utility’s efforts to bring Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4 online.

“For more than a decade, Stephen has led Southern Nuclear and the entire industry in the pursuit of nuclear innovation, overseeing the premier performance of our nuclear power plants while ensuring Vogtle Units 3 and 4 were constructed safely and brought online,” said Southern Co. CEO Chris Womack in a prepared statement.

In his new role, Sena will be responsible for the utility’s three nuclear plants, Plant Farley in Alabama and Plants Hatch and Vogtle in Georgia. Sena joined the utility in 2019 as executive vice president and chief nuclear officer. He was appointed as president in 2023.

Birmingham Business Journal

City incentives approved for large manufacturing project

Posted on May 14, 2024October 25, 2024 by Michael Randle

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. United is making moves for its new headquarters and received a boost from the city for it this week.

The company plans to clean the site and redevelop the former Stockham Valve Property located at 1101 40th St. N. for use as a “corporate campus which is expected to include a new corporate headquarters, a state-of-the-art sales, distribution and warehousing center, region, division and local offices and a customer call center,” according to public records.

The Birmingham City Council gave the approval Tuesday for tax incentives to include construction of an access road to the site and funding of up to $400,000 for water infrastructure improvements. The city has been awarded $2 million in Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Improvement Program funds and $2.1 million in Industrial Access Road and Bridge Grant funds for the access road work, according to a public notice about the hearing.

Birmingham Business Journal

Coca-Cola plans $338 million Birmingham headquarters you can see ‘from the sky’

Posted on May 14, 2024October 25, 2024 by Michael Randle

Coca-Cola United continues to move closer to building a new $338 million campus that will be a gateway to Birmingham, city and company officials said today.

“It’s going to be phenomenal,” Coca-Cola United CEO Mike Suco said Tuesday after the City Council approved incentives for the project. “It will welcome everybody to Birmingham. You’ll love it.”

The City of Birmingham on Tuesday approved a development agreement with Coca-Cola Bottling Company United-Central LLC that will provide incentives for Coca-Cola keeping its new headquarters in Birmingham on the site of the former Stockham Valve property.

“You’re going to be able to see Coca-Cola from the interstate and you’re going to be able to see it from the sky,” said Cornell Wesley, director of innovation and economic opportunity for the City of Birmingham.

AL.com