HUNTSVILLE, AL – Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle, Madison County Commission Chair Mac McCutcheon, and Madison Mayor Paul Finley issued the following joint statement regarding the House Committee on Armed Services announcement it is investigating questionable delays in affirming the site selection for U.S. SPACE COMMAND headquarters. “As one of the nation’s leading military communities, we are gravely […]
The Land Trust of North Alabama officially announced that the organization has conserved over 10,000 acres across the region. A recent and significant land donation from Concord Land Development, Inc. of a 144-acre property in central Huntsville brings the organization to this conservation milestone and becomes the Land Trust’s tenth public nature preserve. “Conserving land in the core […]
HUNTSVILLE, AL – With applications for positions with the police and fire departments dropping, the Huntsville City Council approved an ordinance to raise the minimum hiring rate of cadet pay upon completion of training and to step–raise those already employed. The measure passed at the council’s regular meeting Thursday, Nov. 17. In addition to a […]
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 […]
The Huntsville City Council is prepared to vote on Mayor Tommy Battle’s proposed Fiscal Year 2023 budget at its Thursday night regular meeting. Battle presented the budget at the council’s last regular meeting on Sept. 8, and council members reviewed it further at a work session Sept. 15. The mayor proposed a balanced budget, which […]
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 And while the destination for the new building that will replace an outdated courthouse that was built in 1964 has not been decided, one thing is […]
The planned construction of a new urban center on the vacant 13-acre site where the Coca-Cola bottling plant once sat in Downtown Huntsville is still a go, albeit under a different agreement between the city and the developer. Shane Davis, Director of Economic and Urban Development, presented an amendment to an already approved deal between […]
A financial tool used to provide millions of dollars toward school improvements and job creation will retire in August, two years ahead of projection and nine years before its required closing. On Wednesday, Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle announced that the City of Huntsville will soon make its last bond payment to close a tax increment […]
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’s growth and development once again became evident with the unanimous approval of a redistricting ordinance at the Dec. 16 Huntsville City Council meeting. The new district lines for Huntsville’s five City Council and Board of Education districts reflect significant changes in both growth and demographic diversity over the past 10 years. The ordinance will […]
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