Huntsville Prepares for the Future: Parking Problems or Problem with Perception?

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“It is a little bit of educating people and preparing them for what we know is coming in the future.”

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U.S. Department of Transportation Awards $9.26M for Blake Bottom Road Widening Project

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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Trump Administration will award $9.26 million to Madison County for the Blake Bottom Road Widening Project. The award is part of some $900 million in American infrastructure projects through the Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) Transportation Discretionary Grants program. “The administration is […]

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Ground-breaking Constellation Project Taking Shape

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It took more than a decade’s worth of sweat and tears for Scott McLain, but he’s finally able to harvest the fruits of his labor with Constellation. The multi-use development will be breaking ground next month on an apartment complex and that’s just the first of several projects planned at the Clinton Avenue-South Memorial Parkway […]

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Launch 2035 Initiates 3-County Regional Workforce and Labor Market Assessment Study

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Launch 2035 and city leaders from Madison, Limestone and Morgan counties blasted off their first major initiative – a collaborative assessment study of the area’s regional workforce and labor market. The announcement comes less than 90 days after six mayors from across Madison, Limestone and Morgan counties, formally signed an historic three-county regional agreement of […]

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Tying Education to Business, Huntsville Committee of 100 Funds National Board-Certified Teachers

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A leading Huntsville business advocacy organization is seeing its investments paying off. Though, the group did not invest in financial markets, it invested in education. Last May, the Huntsville Committee of 100 launched an exclusive initiative in May to fund 100 nationally board-certified teachers throughout the Huntsville City Schools, Madison City Schools and Madison County […]

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‘Career Signing Day’ Helps Aim Students Toward Building Sciences

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National Signing Day is a big event in the lives of high school student-athletes and their families. The kids announce where they plan to continue their education and take their athletic talents to the next level. Well, in Huntsville, there is another kind of “signing day.” For the second time, Huntsville City Schools is hosting […]

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Stovehouse’s ‘Retailtainment’ Concept to Include Gaslight Alley Retail District

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There is nothing new about restaurants and retailers using a little pizzazz to entice customers to buy or experience their products and services. Mexican restaurants have Mariachi bands; traditional pizza parlors entertain customers twirling pizza crusts; New Orleans chefs shuck oysters and suck crawfish heads for their customers; and retailers have BOGOs and Midnight Madness […]

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Happy Halloween! Cecil Ashburn set to Reopen by End of the Month

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The upcoming reopening of Cecil Ashburn has commuters rejoicing as they look forward to cutting their driving time down considerably. Business owners are also rejoicing, as they anticipate a return to normalcy and faster commutes for themselves and their clientele when two lanes of the road are scheduled to open by the end of the […]

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Career-prep: Madison Construction Academy, Turner Construction Prepare Students for Skills-based Trades

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Turner Provides an Up-close Look at Work on New Baseball Stadium

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Progress is turning the Rocket City into Crane City

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Downtown Huntsville has a different look as the area evolves on a daily basis. New store fronts are joined by new hotels and new restaurants as the city continues to build as the population grows. Nothing seems constant in the Rocket City lately except for one thing — cranes filling the skyline. “It’s the new […]

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