Tag Archive for: Governor Kay Ivey

U.S. Space & Rocket Center and Boeing Partnership Creates New Hub for Future Astronauts

Last Friday, The U.S. Space & Rocket Center held the ribbon cutting ceremony for its newest state-of-the-art facility, the Space Camp Operations Center. Sponsored by Boeing, the 40,600-square-foot facility will be the main hub of all Space Camp programs while also providing a new home for the U.S. Cyber Camp.  Dr. Kimberly Robinson, chief executive officer and executive […]

Innovate Alabama Taps Alabama Native to Serve as Organization’s Founding CEO

Today, Innovate Alabama board members came together to vote in the organization’s founding CEO, Cynthia Crutchfield. An Alabama native, Crutchfield brings 40 years of experience to the role where she will help innovators grow roots across the state by spearheading Innovate Alabama’s programs, statewide engagement and mission of building a robust, inclusive economy through entrepreneurship and […]

Investing in the Future: ASCTE Cuts Ribbon on New Campus

Capping off a week of groundbreakings and grand openings, Huntsville celebrated a particularly notable milestone on Friday–the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering (ASCTE), the first school of its type in the nation.  Housed on a 26-acre campus on the corner of Wynn Drive and Bradford Drive in Cummings […]

New county courthouse among topics at State of the County address

Huntsville’s downtown square has always been centered by the Madison County Courthouse. That will no longer be true once a site has been determined to build a new courthouse. And while the destination for the new building that will replace an outdated courthouse that was built in 1964 has not been decided, one thing is […]

HudsonAlpha’s growth continues with new Greenhouse and Educational space

HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology has a new reason to celebrate: on Wednesday morning, the facility celebrated the opening of its new 14,000-square-foot state-of-the-art glass greenhouse and laboratory facility with a ribbon cutting ceremony featuring Governor Kay Ivey and a host of leaders in government and business across the region.  Brasfield and Gorrie served as the […]

Lockheed Martin Breaks Ground on New Missile System Integration Lab

On Monday, Lockheed Martin officially broke ground on its Missile System Integration Lab (MSIL) at its Huntsville campus. This building, slated to open in Q3 of 2023, will support development, testing, and integration for the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) program.  The $16.5 million facility, designed by Goodwyn Mills Cawood and to be built by Doster […]

Huntsville Airport, Sierra Nevada Space Dreams Coming True

It’s official! The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued the long-anticipated license to the Huntsville-Madison County Airport Authority to operate the Huntsville International Airport as a commercial space reentry site.  The license will permit the airport to become a landing site for Sierra Space Dream Chaser vehicles returning from future NASA resupply missions to the […]

Huntsville Chamber Hosts Governor Ivey’s 2022 Alabama Update

The Von Braun Center North Hall held a large group of almost a thousand attendees on Thursday as local residents gathered to hear Governor Kay Ivey’s 2022 Alabama Update, in which she discussed issues important to Huntsville.  The Huntsville-Madison County Chamber of Commerce hosted the luncheon event in which the governor gave her annual address […]

Toyota’s IFORCE Twin Turbo V6 Engine Got Some Motors Running at Toyota Alabama’s Line-Off Ceremony

To the driving beat of Steppenwolf’s classic Born to be Wild, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama got everyone looking for adventure at the plant’s Line-Off Ceremony when they officially unveiled their new IFORCE Twin Turbo V6 engine, made exclusively at the Huntsville plant, for all 2022 Toyota Tundras made in North America. The shimmering silver apparatus […]

Madison County Ranks Third in the State for Incoming Investment

Madison County Alabama ranked No. 3 in the state for incoming investment according to a survey conducted by SmartAsset, a team of financial techies, journalists, and data analysts that promote accuracy and transparency in all aspects of the financial industry. The study looks at cities across the United States that received the most incoming investments […]