Times Plaza to Join South Parkway Shopping Landscape

If you drive along South Memorial Parkway between Bob Wallace Avenue and Governors Drive, you’ve noticed a couple concrete towers rising about three stories above the ground. And, nearby, steelwork is also going up. The tower is a stairwell/elevator for Times Plaza.

Construction underway on Madison baseball stadium

MADISON – With the announcement of the new baseball team’s logo and nickname on the horizon, construction is underway on the new Madison baseball stadium. The $46 million stadium will be located within the Town Madison development off of I-565, next to the new Zierdt Road Interchange. With a capacity of about 7,000 people, the […]

South Huntsville is open for business! Ribbon cut for South Parkway overpasses

After 2 1/2 years and snail’s-pace stop-and-go traffic, the ribbon was cut today for the South Parkway overpasses at Byrd Spring and Lily Flagg roads. “We’re happy today to be able to open this stretch of South Memorial Parkway,” said Tommy Harris of the Alabama Department of Transportation, that came in a year ahead of […]

Teledyne Brown to aid in completion of Bellefonte Nuclear Plant

Huntsville-based Teledyne Brown Engineering will take part in the completion of the Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station near Scottsboro. The Tennessee Valley Authority shut down the plant in Hollywood in 1988. Nuclear Development LLC, led by Chattanooga-based developer Franklin L. Haney, purchased the plant at a November 2016 auction with a winning bid of $111 million. Last […]

Ribbon-cutting set for South Memorial Parkway

The wait is almost over! State and city officials will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony July 31 to open the the mainline of South Memorial Parkway, a major milestone for the $53.9 million improvements project between Golf Road and Whitesburg Drive. Gov. Kay Ivey, Mayor Tommy Battle and other state and city officials will be on […]

MidCity Huntsville hoping to snare Trader Joe’s

Huntsville’s latest retail/dining/entertainment complex is hoping to snare a major market player. RCP Cos., the developers of MidCity Huntsville – the 100-acre mixed-use community on the site of the former Madison Square Mall on University Drive – has launched a Facebook campaign urging people to contact Trader Joe’s (www.traderjoes.com) to bring the store here. Last […]

Growing pains – Is the Madison County area growing too fast?

The announcements of big-time companies opening bring thousands of jobs. And those thousands of people will be getting back and forth to those thousands of jobs on highways that weren’t built to handle the extra capacity.

‘Main Street Alabama’ designation to make South Huntsville a ‘special place’

There may be no specified downtown nor an entertainment district per se. In fact, South Huntsville’s “main street” is a four-lane divided highway that carries a U.S. route designation. But, the area that stretches from roughly south of Governors to drive to the Tennessee River is a Main Street Alabama community. “I couldn’t be more […]

Madison ballpark: They haven’t built it, but hundreds did come

If the line of cars on Zierdt Road and the hundreds of people who showed up for a groundbreaking ceremony were any indication, baseball has definitely returned to North Alabama.

Madison sets groundbreaking for development, baseball stadium

MADISON — The first pitch won’t be thrown for another two years, but progress continues to round the bases for Madison’s multi-use development, including a baseball stadium for the city’s new minor league team. City officials have set a groundbreaking for June 9 at the site of Town Madison, adjacent to I-565 and Zierdt Road. […]