Australian Telecom TPG Rolling Out Adtran Gigabit Fiber Access Technology

Adtran, Inc., the leading provider of next-generation multi-gigabit fiber access and fiber extension solutions, recently announced that TPG Telecom Group (TPG) is leveraging the Adtran second generation Gigabit Gfast fiber extension portfolio to upgrade existing broadband services to Gigabit speeds and attract new subscribers. Adtran is enabling TPG to rapidly roll out Gigabit broadband services to more than […]

The Beach Company Announces New Commercial Tenant for The Range

Charleston, S.C.-based The Beach Company recently announced that it has signed its second commercial tenant at The Range in the past month. The Range is a new three-story office building at the western gateway into Huntsville on Governors Drive. EyeCare Partners, which encompasses an integrated partnership of optometry and ophthalmology clinics and surgery centers providing a full spectrum […]

City of Huntsville Secures Federal RAISE Grant For Pedestrian Access Project

Thanks to a massive infusion of $20 million in federal grant funding, the City of Huntsville can now check off another of its long-desired goals: creating a more walkable city. An added bonus: the grant will provide an economic boost to low-income communities. While the pedestrian access and redevelopment corridor (PARC) project has been on […]

Real Estate Update: Quarter 2 Report Shows High Demand, High Inflation. High Hopes as Well?

The Huntsville Area Association of Realtors has released its Q2 report for the year of 2022. This report illustrates continuing trends in the price, inventory, and average sale time of residential real estate properties in Madison County. The overall inventory of homes for sale rose 125% in Q2 2022, with the lion’s share of those […]

New county courthouse among topics at State of the County address

Huntsville’s downtown square has always been centered by the Madison County Courthouse. That will no longer be true once a site has been determined to build a new courthouse. And while the destination for the new building that will replace an outdated courthouse that was built in 1964 has not been decided, one thing is […]

Former Coca-Cola site agreement gets alterations; City rezoning discussed

The planned construction of a new urban center on the vacant 13-acre site where the Coca-Cola bottling plant once sat in Downtown Huntsville is still a go, albeit under a different agreement between the city and the developer. Shane Davis, Director of Economic and Urban Development, presented an amendment to an already approved deal between […]

Alabama ranks 45th in labor productivity among states

With numerous economic experts predicting that the U.S. is headed toward recession, one of the many concerning signals is a sharp decline in labor productivity. After more than a decade of below-average productivity growth, the COVID-19 pandemic raised the prospect of a productivity boom. Many low-productivity jobs were eliminated early in the pandemic, while major infrastructure investments and the accelerated adoption of […]

Mayor Battle outlines new goals and development for Huntsville’s BIG Picture plan

The genesis of Huntsville’s master plan came during Mayor Tommy Battle’s second term in 2014 when the city was the third largest in Alabama. In 2018, the mayor’s office unveiled The BIG Picture master plan at a time when the city had grown into the state’s second largest. Four years later, with Huntsville now the […]

United Safety announces partnership with Huntsville company to produce AI security tech

Local Huntsville company Exigent, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AI-specialist company Arcarithm, has announced a partnership with United Safety and Survivability Corporation to produce its proprietary security technology for widespread distribution.  The Exigent-GR system utilizes Artificial Intelligence technology linked to cameras to scan locations for firearms, enabling swift detection and alert for weapons. Computational networks analyze […]

Mayor Battle announces closure of TIF

A financial tool used to provide millions of dollars toward school improvements and job creation will retire in August, two years ahead of projection and nine years before its required closing. On Wednesday, Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle announced that the City of Huntsville will soon make its last bond payment to close a tax increment […]