Sit Down With Success: A Conversation with the Van Valkenburghs

The Sit Down With Success is a monthly series provided by the Huntsville Business Journal that focuses on successful small businesses in the Huntsville/Madison County area and their keys to success. For this month, the Huntsville Business Journal sat down with Richard and Nancy Van Valkenburgh of Van Valkenburgh & Wilkinson Properties, Inc. If you’ve […]

TVA adds natural gas generation to the North Alabama grid

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) reached an exciting milestone as the agency enhances its generation capacity with the commercial operation of three new units at Colbert Combustion Turbine site in North Alabama on July 25, 2023 – months ahead of schedule and under budget. The $500 million Colbert Combustion Turbine Expansion project adds approximately 750 […]

ALS Association’s Alabama Chapter Raises $19,000 with CEO Soak

On July 18, the Alabama chapter of ALS Association hosted its second annual CEO Soak to raise funds and awareness for the treatment of ALS at the Bicentennial Park in downtown Huntsville. Participants walked through the Bicentennial Park splash pad in formal attire. Those “soaked” included company presidents, CEOs, and the ALS Association’s Alabama Chapter’s […]

Huntsville City Council Approves 16 Acre Property Sale, Talks Alligator Issues

On June 13, Huntsville City Council approved the declaration of a property surplus to be sold for industrial supply business and to implement additional part-time city employee retention measures before discussing the alligator presence with concerned citizens at its regular meeting. In order to improve part-time city employee retention, the council unanimously voted to offer […]

UAH Summer Research Program Enters 18th Year

The 2023 Summer Community of Scholars (SCS) recently began its 18th year as an undergraduate research summer program at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). The program was initiated in 2006 with the first campuswide Research and Creative Experience for Undergraduates (RCEU) program. In 2017 the Honors Capstone Research (HCR) Summer Program was added to […]

Kömmerling USA Announces Expansion in Huntsville, Adds Additional Jobs

HUNTSVILLE, AL – Kömmerling USA, located in Chase Industrial Park in Huntsville, has announced an expansion and additional jobs for the local facility.  Kömmerling’s Huntsville plant will add two new production lines to manufacture window and door profiles. The company currently makes these products elsewhere, including Germany, and this expansion will allow the team to make […]

Huntsville Hospital’s Stroke Care Earns National Recognition

Huntsville Hospital has received the American Heart Association’s 2023 Get With The Guidelines® – Stroke Gold Plus quality achievement award for its commitment to ensuring that stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines.  The flagship campus of the not-for-profit Huntsville Hospital Health System, Huntsville Hospital treats more stroke patients […]

Food City Breaks Ground in Hampton Cove for First of Six Upcoming Locations

It was 10:00 am on Wednesday, July 12th, that a crowd gathered in Hampton Cove to celebrate Huntsville’s upcoming grocery store. Crews braved the blistering sun to break ground on the city’s first of six Food City locations on Taylor Lane right off of U.S. Highway 431.  After an agreement was made earlier this year, the […]

Scientists Release Groundbreaking Discovery Linked to Cancer Research

A recent search by HudsonAlpha Center for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha) scientists has yielded the discovery of a gene that holds the potential to reverse chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer.  In the United States, cancer treatments and survival rates are met with two significant challenges: metastasis and chemoresistance. Additionally, cancer is the second leading cause of death, falling […]

ServisFirst Bancshares, Inc. Ranks Third Among Top Publicly Traded Banks

ServisFirst Bank, a subsidiary of ServisFirst Bancshares (NYSE:SFBS), announced that the company ranked third in the top publicly traded banks with between $10 billion to $50 billion in assets, based on year-end 2022 data. Consulting firm Capital Performance Group partnered with American Banker to compile the annual ranking, and this is the second year in […]