Oh, the Horror! Cashing in on the Business of Zombies, Superheroes and Mystical Creatures

  Americans will not just wander around with their arms or heads slashed open for fun this Halloween, but they will gash their wallets wide open in search of the perfect frightfest. According to 2017 National Retail Federation (NRF) statistics, more than 179 million Americans will participate in Halloween activities this year. Thirty-five percent will […]

REI Co-op’s First Alabama Store to Join MidCity Huntsville Lineup

REI Co-op is opening its first location in the state at MidCity Huntsville, RCP Companies announced Tuesday. It is scheduled to open in fall 2019. REI Huntsville will also have direct access to MidCity Park, a 40-acre public park with a trail system, lakeside dock, and an outdoor amphitheater.

Pies & Pints to Join Lineup at MidCity Huntsville

Pies & Pints, a specialty pizza and craft beer restaurant, will open at MidCity Huntsville, RCP Companies announced Thursday. MidCity Huntsville is the $500 million redevelopment at the 140-acre site of the former Madison Square Mall. Pies & Pints is an Ohio-based restaurant offering pizza, sandwiches, salads, and desserts along with an assortment of local […]

Times Plaza to Join South Parkway Shopping Landscape

If you drive along South Memorial Parkway between Bob Wallace Avenue and Governors Drive, you’ve noticed a couple concrete towers rising about three stories above the ground. And, nearby, steelwork is also going up. The tower is a stairwell/elevator for Times Plaza.

MidCity Huntsville posts Open Letter to Trader Joe’s

Open Letter to Trader Joe’s Huntsville’s Rocket City legacy is based on the “right stuff” and the city’s newest entertainment/retail/dining complex is doing the “write stuff” to lure a business. MidCity Huntsville has followed up a Facebook campaign with its own “Open Letter to Trader Joe’s”. RCP Cos., the developers of MidCity Huntsville – the […]

MidCity Huntsville hoping to snare Trader Joe’s

Huntsville’s latest retail/dining/entertainment complex is hoping to snare a major market player. RCP Cos., the developers of MidCity Huntsville – the 100-acre mixed-use community on the site of the former Madison Square Mall on University Drive – has launched a Facebook campaign urging people to contact Trader Joe’s (www.traderjoes.com) to bring the store here. Last […]

Ten Years in the Making: The Shoppes at Redstone Square

Timing. Luck. Vision. Nearly a decade ago, two visionaries – Jim Gendreau, owner of Tailwinds Development in Lake Mary, Fla., and Colliers International Director David Garnett – stood on a desolate corner at Huntsville’s westernmost point outside Redstone Arsenal Gate 7. Perhaps Redstone’s most discreet entry/exit point, Gate 7 sits at the corner of a […]

The Cuban Cafe coming to Madison’s Promenade Point

A local eatery will soon bring the sights, sounds, and flavors of Cuba to the Madison/Huntsville area. The Cuban Café is slated to open in August at Madison’s Promenade Point shopping center, near the Walmart and Target on U.S. 72.

‘Main Street Alabama’ designation to make South Huntsville a ‘special place’

There may be no specified downtown nor an entertainment district per se. In fact, South Huntsville’s “main street” is a four-lane divided highway that carries a U.S. route designation. But, the area that stretches from roughly south of Governors to drive to the Tennessee River is a Main Street Alabama community. “I couldn’t be more […]

Madison ballpark: They haven’t built it, but hundreds did come

If the line of cars on Zierdt Road and the hundreds of people who showed up for a groundbreaking ceremony were any indication, baseball has definitely returned to North Alabama.