Biohazard Cleanup Near Riverchase Hoover, AL

Hoover is a city spanning Jefferson and Shelby counties in north-central Alabama and is the largest suburb of Birmingham, ranking as the sixth-largest city in Alabama.

The city is named for William H. Hoover, an insurance executive who moved his Employers Insurance company from Birmingham to the area in the 1950s and developed the community that grew up around it.

Hoover was incorporated in 1967 with only slightly more than 400 residents; the first census after incorporation, in 1970, counted just 688 people.

The 2020 census counted 92,606 residents in Hoover living in 36,799 households, a dramatic rise from 688 residents fifty years earlier.

Before incorporation, the area was known as the Green Valley community, with early settlements at Bluff Park, Patton Chapel, and Rocky Ridge in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.

Hoover's fortunes changed in 1980 when it annexed the Riverchase business and residential community, greatly expanding its tax base and employment.

The Riverchase Galleria, a shopping, hotel, and office complex that opened in 1986, is one of the largest shopping centers in the southeastern United States and a major revenue source for the city.

The 10,800-seat Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, known as the Hoover Met, has hosted the Southeastern Conference baseball tournament annually since 1998, drawing more than 150,000 fans over the tournament week.

The Hoover Met was home to the Birmingham Barons minor league baseball team from 1988 through 2012, and it drew its largest crowds in 1994, when Michael Jordan played for the Barons during his brief professional baseball career.

Aldridge Gardens, a woodland botanical garden donated to the city in 1997 by nurseryman Eddie Aldridge and his wife Kay, is known as the birthplace of the Snowflake Hydrangea.