Tag Archive for: North Alabama

ACCS Opens its New Innovation Center – Enrollment Begins for Rapid Workforce Training

The Alabama Community College System (ACCS) has recently opened its $10 million Innovation Center. Civic leaders, students, and industry partners were all on hand to celebrate the kickoff, an event that carries with it much significance for Alabama’s workforce needs of tomorrow.  According to business and workforce development leaders throughout the state, the need for […]

AMIIC Celebrates with a Ribbon Cutting for its Workforce Development Hub

Many area luminaries and civic leaders, along with those from the neighboring Huntsville and Madison communities, were on hand to celebrate the official opening and ribbon cutting for Advanced Manufacturing Innovation and Integration Center’s (AMIIC) new facility and lab at 5021 Technology Drive in Huntsville.  Greg Brown, Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce Chairman and Co-CEO […]

UNA Receives first ever Endowment Fund from Bank Independent

Historically, public universities in Alabama are often the backbone of community development. Whether in Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, or Mobile, public universities in Alabama have always had a central role in the growth of their surrounding communities, as well as the state as a whole.  Florence and the Shoals area are no exception to this historical precedent.  […]

Local Business Breaks Ground for Helping a Hero Event

While deployed by the U.S. Army to Iraq 15 years ago, Staff Sergeant Michael Brown left a local police station and boarded a Humvee. Minutes later, a man appeared from a doorway and hurled an anti tank grenade at the vehicle. The result was not only a severely damaged Humvee, but Moore’s foot was removed […]

Mazda Toyota Manufacturing Introduces New Made-in-Huntsville Mazda CX-50

Mazda Toyota Manufacturing (MTM) held a special media event yesterday at its joint manufacturing facility on Greenbrier Rd. to unveil the start of mass production of Mazda’s newest crossover SUV, the CX-50.  MTM’s launch ceremony, cheered on by hundreds of members of the plant’s workforce, featured a number of special guest speakers, including Mazda North […]

Lansing Companies Partnering with NALZ to Build a Zoo for You!

Lansing Companies, one of the largest land development firms in the United States, is now doing business in the dynamic and rapidly growing Huntsville-Madison County market. One of their more noteworthy projects is helping to build a new ZOO! As a development company that serves to better the community and the people, Lansing is well-known […]

NALZ Update: It Takes a Community to Build a Zoo

Build it and they will come. But first, funds need to be raised to buy the land to build it on. Bringing a world-class zoo and aquarium to north Alabama is no easy feat. Despite the excitement and enthusiasm that’s been generated, coupled with the many endorsements received from government leaders in North Alabama, generating […]

Bryant Bank breaking ground on Athens location

ATHENS – Bryant Bank’s presence in North Alabama is growing. The bank, founded in Tuscaloosa in 2005 by Paul W. Bryant, Jr., currently has two locations in Huntsville as well as a loan production office in Athens. A groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for Thursday at 2 p.m. This will mark the start of construction on […]

NALZS Announces Claim Your Spot Campaign to Help North Alabama Zoo Progress

Since hosting its press conference in early 2021, the North Alabama Zoological Society’s (NALZS) announcement of bringing a zoo and an aquarium to the Rocket City has been met with excitement and enthusiasm. It’s no secret that building a world-class zoo doesn’t happen overnight. Despite the consensus of the community wanting a zoo, there is […]

HudsonAlpha’s Aims for Collaboration, Increasing Workforce Diversity, and Reducing Fertilizer Use

There’s nothing quite like a pandemic to shake up the best laid research plans. In late 2018, researchers at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, in collaboration with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) were awarded a $3.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study nitrogen efficiency in sorghum.  Sorghum is a grain with […]