Community News and New Developments

Huntsville could soon pass Birmingham to become the largest city in Alabama. “We believe we will be the biggest city in the state within a decade,” predicted Dennis Madsen, long-range planner for the City of Huntsville. Right now, Huntsville is fourth. It’s the smallest of the four main cities in this state. But those cities…

By Lee Roop | lroop@al.com  on November 27, 2015 at 3:24 PM, updated November 27, 2015 at 3:25 PM 0 Redit Email  Far from Huntsville’s shopping centers and big box stores, something old with a trendy new face drew hundreds of Black Friday shoppers to downtown. U.G. White Mercantile, a century-old fixture on Athens’ Courthouse…

GE Aviation announces plans for Huntsville advanced manufacturing facilities October 27, 2015: GE Aviation announced today that it will build two adjacent facilities in Huntsville, Alabama, to mass-produce silicon carbide (SiC) materials used to manufacture ceramic matrix composite components (CMCs) for jet engines and land-based gas turbines. This is cutting edge technology that will further…

http://www.al.com/business/index.ssf/2015/10/new_details_renderings_release.html#incart_river_home New details and renderings are available of CityCentre at Big Spring, a $100 million mixed-use project that will begin rising late this year in Huntsville. RCP Companies, a Huntsville-based boutique real estate firm, is developing CityCentre at the former Holiday Inn site across from Big Spring International Park. The 270-room, nearly 40-year-old hotel was…

Neighborhood growth may be a key to unlocking more opportunities across Huntsville Posted 10:29 pm, October 14, 2015, by Kristen Conner   HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT)– Leaders say the medical district is the area with Huntsville’s fastest growing population. Chad Emerson of Downtown Huntsville, Inc. breaks it down: “You have Twickenham Square. You have the hospital right there.…

Looking east, this aerial photograph shows the site for Town Madison, a commercial and retail development taking shape south of Interstate 565 near Zeirdt Road. State and federal highway officials have approved a new I-565 exit at the development site. (Marty Sellers | sellersphoto.com) By Lee Roop | lroop@al.com The Huntsville Times Email the author…

  It’s fitting that as we approach Labor Day, our city finds itself in several national conversations about our workforce.   Earlier this week, Bloomberg Business published an incredible article about the cities leading the nation in careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).  Huntsville is the focus of the piece and is described…

Hampton Inn ‘unlike any other in the nation’ coming to Village of Providence in Huntsville By Lucy Berry | lberry@al.com AL.com Follow on Twitter on August 31, 2015 at 10:31 AM, updated August 31, 2015 at 10:36 AM Developers David and Todd Slyman will break ground soon on a new 92-room hotel at the Village…

  By Steve Doyle | sdoyle@al.com AL.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on June 10, 2015 at 1:00 PM, updated June 10, 2015 at 2:07 PM Remember Mayor Tommy Battle’s goal of turning Huntsville into a “Gig City” with ultra-fast Internet download speeds? Mission accomplished – and then some. On Wednesday, executives from…

Cummings Research Park is a 3,800-acre park in Huntsville with over 300 companies and 26,000 employees specializing in engineering, technology, research and design. (Sarah Cole | Scole@al.com) By Lucy Berry | lberry@al.com AL.com Follow on Twitter on June 02, 2015 at 11:28 AM, updated June 02, 2015 at 1:30 PM The same organization that ranked…