Huntsville: Gig City USA Mayor Tommy Battle announced that in 2017, Google Fiber will be bringing its ultra-fast internet service to Huntsville. Huntsville will now be the 10th city in the country with such incredible speeds–roughly 1-gigabit per second–or nearly 85 times that of the average current speed in the U.S. Google Fiber will partner…

By Lee Roop | lroop@al.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on February 11, 2016 at 8:33 PM, updated February 12, 2016 at 6:53 AM The Huntsville City Council unanimously approved two ordinances Thursday night designed to allow new-style taxi companies such as Uber and Lyft to operate in the city. City officials say…

A fast-growing hotel brand with Spanish roots will be the first tenant to break ground this year at CityCentre at Big Spring in downtown Huntsville. A guest room at AC Hotels by Marriott in Miami Beach. (achotels.marriott.com)  AC Hotels by Marriott will anchor the $100 million mixed-use project across from Big Spring International Park and…

By Lucy Berry | lberry@al.com Follow on Twitter on February 12, 2016 at 3:31 PM A 276-unit apartment community in Huntsville was sold recently for more than $15 million. Commercial real estate company Berkadia said today it has negotiated the sale of Stone Crossing on University Drive to Stone Crossing 2014, LLC, for $15,150,000. The…

    File photo – In this Feb. 22, 2011 file photo, a farmer drives his tractor in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. The Obama administration has approved the first U.S. factory in Cuba in more than half a century, allowing a pair of former software engineers to build a plant assembling as many as 1,000…

Sunset & moonrise Downtown Huntsville in Big Spring International Park. (Bob Gathany/bgathany@AL.com) on February 01, 2016 at 12:09 PM, updated February 01, 2016 at 3:42 PM A new study ranks Huntsville as one of the cheapest cities you’d actually want to live in in 2016. Livability.com has named the Rocket City the most affordable in…

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…