HATCH Program Finds Success With First Two Cohorts

It’s been almost three years since HATCH co-founders Garret Coyne and Beth Boyer first talked about the idea for a hospitality workforce program that would empower its participants to lead self-sufficient lives. Their vision of HATCH is now a reality. Students from the program’s first and second cohort have seen their lives dramatically change after […]

Mazda Toyota Manufacturing Sweetening the Pot for Workers

Mazda Toyota Manufacturing has reworked their compensation packages going into 2022 to better meet the needs of workers and to attract new workers looking to change careers. Considering MTM plans to hire up to 1,300 additional team members through 2022, the openings for people looking for a better job, more opportunities, and upward mobility are […]

Publix Celebrates its 14th Madison County Location at Hays Farm

Dozens of South Huntsville shoppers braved the cold on Tuesday so that they could be the first to experience the brand new Publix store located in The Market at Hays Farms on Memorial Parkway S.W. At 7:00 am, the ribbon was cut on Madison County’s 14th Publix location and the 48,000-suare-foot grocery store was open […]

No Moss Growing on the 212-Mile Singing River Trail

Aristotle once wrote, “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous”.  When the Land Use Committee of Huntsville’s Launch 2035 dedicated the first quarter mile of North Alabama’s original 70-mile-long Singing River Trail in late 2019, the idea of physically connecting Huntsville to Madison, Athens, and Decatur was quite marvelous – in […]

Exploring America’s “Employee Market”: Questions Left Unanswered by Employment Rates

One local restaurant manager has his pulse on the workforce situation this country faces is in a pandemic environment. It’s not a comforting picture. The manager, who like many who were contacted for this story asked for his store or his name not to be used, said his chain restaurant was bracing against the same […]

The Cheesecake Factory Opens For Business

With the grand opening of Bridge Street’s newest restaurant Tuesday, October 26, Huntsville officially became the home of the state’s second location of The Cheesecake Factory.  Long lines of excited customers eagerly awaited the opportunity to sample some of the eatery’s many menu items in its spacious, attractive dining room at Bridge Street in the […]

2021 Best Places to Work Award Winners Announced

The Best Places to Work® Awards are back in person after taking the ceremony virtual for the 2020 awards back in April.  These awards represent a major achievement for the growth of the Huntsville-Madison County area, and a point of pride for many companies and their employees for maintaining an excellent standard of workplace development, […]

Northrop Grumman Grows Huntsville Jobs and Footprint in Support of National Security

If Huntsville had at any time in the past 75 years, shied away from very complex programs and solutions, rife with a lot of moving parts requiring a massive effort from a team of brilliant scientists to accomplish – well, we would all still be picking watercress and a gigantic boll of cotton would mark […]

MTM Gets Cranking on 2022 Toyota Corolla Cross; Mazda Starts Production on New CX-50 Crossover in January

Ladies and Gentlemen, start those engines!  Oops! Not your racing engines but the all-new namesake “Apollo” production line at Huntsville’s new Mazda Toyota Manufacturing!  With the push of a button this month, the new $2.3 billion, 3.7 million square foot MTM facility finally begins production on its first ever automobile – the 2022 Toyota Corolla […]

Gov. Ivey Joins Officials to Welcome Special Aerospace Services Campus to Cummings Research Park

With a backdrop of sunshine, classical music and scrumptious food, Special Aerospace Services (SAS) broke ground on their new 55,000 square-foot facility they call “The Campus” at 1101 Explorer Boulevard in Cummings Research Park. The new facility consists of two buildings, and they expect to add up to 50 high technology jobs when they open […]