March 18, 2026 - Volunteers from Warrior Met Coal Inc. joined forces with Habitat for Humanity staff and volunteers to begin a new house March 9, on Milestone Circle in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

The house, which will belong to Tayla Brown and will be occupied by Brown and her two children, is part of Habitat for Humanity Tuscaloosa's Operation Transformation, an effort to build 75 new homes in West Tuscaloosa by the end of this decade.

According to a release from Habitat, 32 of those homes are in the Milestone Circle neighborhood and 25 more will be constructed in Westgrove. This is the second home sponsored by Warrior Met. Their first, according to Habitat, was in 2025 in which 170 volunteers from the company invested 1,360 hours in the project.

Based in Brookwood in Tuscaloosa County, Warrior Met Coal focuses primarily on the mining of nonthermal metallurgical coal for use in the steel production process by manufacturers in Europe, South America and Asia.

Mar 9, 2026; Tuscaloosa, AL, USA; Volunteers from Warrior Met Coal, Inc. help construct a new Habitat for Humanity house for Tayla Brown and her two children on Milestone Circle in Tuscaloosa. Barry Stough, who works for Habitat, shows the floor plan to Warrior Met volunteers Ryder Richardson and Jimmy Severini.

Warrior Met's crew was supplemented by volunteers from the University of Alabama and by the Hometown Heroes, a group of mostly retired men from Tuscaloosa who work regularly with Habitat year-round.

Warrior Met also has committed to furnish the home through the High Socks for Hope Foundation, which Hillcrest High graduate and former Major League Baseball player David Robertson and his wife Erin established.

The organization furnishes Habitat for Humanity homes in Tuscaloosa and is involved with other projects around the country.

Robertson retired in January after a 17-year baseball career with the Yankees, Mets, and Rays.

Qualified Habitat families purchase their homes at fair market value through affordable 0% interest, 30-year mortgages and complete a minimum of 250 hours of sweat equity alongside volunteers, according to the news release.

For more information, go to www.highsocksforhope.org or www.habitattuscaloosa.org.