Downtown Huntsville honored by international group

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Downtown Huntsville Inc. was awarded a Certificate of Merit Award for the Spragins Street Greenway and Cycle Track Connector by the International Downtown Association. The project was awarded a Certificate of Merit in the category of Planning during the IDA’s 64th annual conference and trade show. This category features planning efforts […]

Mayor: ‘No better time to live in Huntsville’

  Calling it a “day of celebration,” Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle reeled off a list of successes the city accomplished over the last few years. “What started 10 years ago began as a vision,” he said. “Then a plan.” “You are the reason we are stronger then ever,” he told the audience of some 1,200 […]

FBI to expand presence on Redstone Arsenal

  Huntsville’s moniker as “the Federal City of the South” was further bolstered Thursday with the announcement of a planned FBI expansion. The FBI, which has about 300 personnel stationed at Redstone Arsenal, will add another 1,350 employees, according to the agency’s senior executive at Redstone, Robert Hamilton. The personnel will come from the Washington […]

Local small businesses go global for defense sales

The theater at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s Davidson Center was filled with small, locally owned defense contracting firms eager to learn more about foreign military sales. They were not disappointed as The North Alabama International Trade Association (NAITA) presented its industry networking event, “FMS Across the Globe.” The keynote speaker, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey […]

Black Patch Distillery Offers a Special Salute to the Military

  It takes a special kind of operation to be a successful distillery. Or, in the case of Leslie Hinchman, it takes special ops.                      Hinchman, who served with the Army’s special ops forces, is the CEO and president of Black Patch Distillery. The Black Patch […]

Huntsville’s Business Environment Embraces Veterans

Huntsville is a well-known destination for retiring veterans who want to do business with the government. In 1992, Rosalyn Thompson-Blackwell and Roderick Herron met during 14 weeks of Officer’s Training at Fort Benning, Ga. Thompson-Blackwell, president and CEO of Huntsville’s Mb Solutions, had worked as a project manager and acquisitions officer in the Army, stationed in […]

Rebranded Organization Provides a ‘Catalyst’ to Start a Business

The Catalyst Center for Business & Entrepreneurship serves as a driver for economic growth and job creation in north Alabama by lending its expertise to small business owners at every stage of business development. By providing quality programming, business coaching, and networking opportunities, The Catalyst offers entrepreneurs and startups the tools they need successfully manage […]

Midway Through the Mission: Making Huntsville a Gig City

Huntsville has never been the kind of place to wait around for technology to make its way here. Sure, in many ways, Huntsville is still a traditional Southern city with long, hot, sultry summers and a penchant for football rivalries and ice-cold beer. But make no mistake – Huntsville’s pluck and grit is writ in […]

With New Propst Center, HudsonAlpha’s Mission Continues

Brightly colored beads in clear containers of various sizes and shapes represent more than 5 million learners who have experienced a HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HAIB) educational outreach opportunity. The display covering the past 10 years sits on the second floor of the new Paul Propst Center, which opened in September. The education team, headed […]

Retailers Dreaming of a Black Christmas

For years economists have pushed the idea that “Black Friday” is the first day of the year in which retailers operating all year “in the red” and at a loss, use the Christmas buying season to turn a profit putting them “in the black.” Supposedly on the day after Thanksgiving, shoppers are so full of […]