All-New stayAPT Suites Breaks Ground in Huntsville

Travelers to the Rocket City will soon be able to experience new hotel brand stayAPT Suites with its residential suite-style rooms. The new hotel is under development at 210 West Park Loop, off University Drive near Westside Centre and Cummings Research Park. Guiding the stayAPT Suites experience is a design philosophy that abandons the traditional […]

Rick Davis to Head Up Research Park Leasing, Sales for NAI Chase Commercial

NAI Chase Commercial has hired Rick Davis as executive director, Research Park- Leasing & Sales in the Huntsville office. Davis, a former executive director of Cummings Research Park for the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce, will be responsible for all leasing activities for Corporate Park, Park Place, 4900 Bradford, 4811 Bradford Drive and other Chase properties […]

Popular Rolo’s Café Closes After 30 Years; Viet House Coming to Westbury Square

The elevated train has stopped for the final time at Rolo’s Café on Airport Road. After 30 years, the popular meat-and-three establishment is closed for good. Although a sign on the front window by the door says “Temporarily Closed,” a person who declined to provide her name confirmed that it’s permanent. Rolo Weaver opened his […]

After 20 years, Toyota Motor Plant Still Growing, Producing, Hiring and Investing

By the end of this year, Toyota Alabama will have the capacity to produce 900,000 engines per year.

Roberts Joins NAI Chase Commercial Real Estate as Associate Broker

David L. Roberts has been named associate broker with the Huntsville office of NAI Chase Commercial Real Estate. Roberts will be responsible for investment analysis, sales, acquisition and disposition, tenant services, valuation consulting, consulting service and client representation in Huntsville and surrounding markets. “We’re excited about Dave joining our team and broadening the level of […]

Hicks Named Bank Independent Assistant VP Sales

Amanda Hicks has joined Bank Independent as assistant vice president sales officer at the Huntsville Downtown Square location. A graduate of Athens State, Hicks brings more than 15 years of banking experience to Bank Independent with a focus on commercial lending. “I’m excited to offer commercial lending solutions to clients in the Huntsville market,” she […]

Lee High’s Derrick Gragg Answers Second Call to be AD at Northwestern

Huntsville’s Derrick Gragg has returned to his professional roots as a collegiate administrator, leaving a senior position at the NCAA offices in Indianapolis to become the athletic director at Northwestern University. The two-sport Lee High School star and Vanderbilt University wide receiver has spent more than a quarter-century in athletic administration. Except for the most […]

Bob Jones Alum Candice Storey Lee Opening ‘Dores’ to Finance

When Bob Jones High School’s Candice Storey signed a basketball scholarship with Vanderbilt University, she figured to move on from Nashville once her eligibility was exhausted and her degree was secured. After all, relocating was a way of life in a military family. She attended 12 schools before entering the ninth grade at Bob Jones. […]

United Way, Toyota Celebrate Milestone in Ride United Program

Two factors – community growth and employer needs – have come together to give United Way of Madison County’s free “Ride United” program a lift in the past two years. Since its implementation here in 2020, Ride United has hit a milestone, providing nearly 3,000 free rides to and from essential services such as job […]

Pressing on Through Pandemic, Marvinia Adams named Catalyst Entrepreneur of the Year

Marvinia Adams, owner of Martinizing Dry Cleaning and this year’s Catalyst Veteran Entrepreneur of the Year award winner, has plenty of reasons to celebrate. After taking over the local dry-cleaning franchise in June 2019, Adams recently passed the two-year mark. In any other given year, this would be noteworthy, but during one of the most […]