And the Beat Goes On: Huntsville Announces Plans for Nation’s First Full-Time Music Officer

Strike up the band! Huntsville continues the beat as a “city of firsts.” From being as the state’s first capital to its key role in putting the first human into space and on the moon to the first joint manufacturing plant for automakers Mazda and Toyota, the city has a long-playing record of being a […]

Double-edged Sword of Employment: Finding Talent to Fill Anticipated 25,000 Jobs Coming Here

Madison County’s unemployment rate is 2.3 percent. Alabama’s unemployment rate is 3.6 percent. When we hear there is a labor shortage and a lot of people without jobs, those numbers don’t leave a lot of people on the unemployment rolls. A percentage of the 2.5 percent don’t meet the needs of employers for some reason […]

The Merging of Two Visions: Singing River Trail Joins the Tennessee RiverLine

It is a partnership that brings together two visions – one green and the other blue – to create a new way of engaging with the great North Alabama outdoors. Representatives from Madison County’s legacy Singing River Trail project joined representatives from the Tennessee RiverLine project recently to kick off their vision for a continuous […]

Five-Star Restaurant J. Alexander’s Breaks Ground at Town Madison

MADISON — Something delicious will make its debut in the shadow of Toyota Field this year. Town Madison’s first five-star restaurant, J. Alexander’s, broke ground this week bringing its famous wood-fired cuisine to the area.  Town Madison master developer Louis Breland said it was a great day not just for Town Madison, but for the city […]

Lamar Advertising Maximizing Regional Exposure With Jetplex Facility

Lamar Advertising of North Alabama has consolidated its regional operations into a new 15,000 square-foot facility in the Jetplex Industrial Park. The $4 million facility will house the 24 employees who work in Decatur and Huntsville’s Five Points locations. The location creates a centralized hub for Lamar’s seven-county service areas of Huntsville and Madison, Decatur, […]

Going for the Gold Brings Green to the Area

The Rocket City is quickly becoming the City of Champions and that means economic dollars for the area. Fourteen sports events over a three-month period generated an unprecedented economic flow into the city and area, based on calculations by Destinations International. Sports tourism for the Huntsville area produced more than $10.3 million in that span, […]

Business Lineup Growing at Hays Farm

Things are coming up in South Huntsville. And the latest to bloom is news that the Market at Hays Farm is adding four more businesses to its lineup. According to Branch Properties, the Publix Supermarket-anchored shopping center is more than 80% pre-leased since breaking ground last year. “The speed at which our team has leased […]

City Garners a ‘10’ from SEC; Future Championships Possible

Host cities and venues generally have a year to prepare for the Southeastern Conference Gymnastics Championships. This year, the Von Braun Center had barely two months to prepare for the event after it was pulled from New Orleans because that city was deemed a COVID-19 hot spot. Alabama won the title with a late surge […]

I-565 Interchange Helps Town Madison Ramp Up Progress

MADISON — Toyota Field looked a bit like Mudville on Thursday as the long-awaited opening of the new Town Madison exit off I-565 struck out mightily in rain.  Moving the celebration into the open-air Toyota Field concourse from the exit ramp, the Madison Chamber of Commerce, Madison Mayor Paul Finley, Madison County Commission Chair Dale […]

Old Highway 20, Portion of Greenbrier Parkway Open to Traffic

Traffic moving in and out of Huntsville’s booming western corridor should flow much smoother with the dual openings of Old Highway 20 from Greenbrier Parkway to County Line Road and Greenbrier Parkway between Old Highway 20 and Mooresville Road. Both projects will be open to through traffic Friday. The multimillion-dollar improvements were part of the […]