Business

January 12th, 2018

Lessons learned in loss pay dividends as Huntsville lands Toyota-Mazda

Out of loss came victory. Out of loss came lessons and patience and perseverance. Out of loss came the right [ Read More ]

January 10th, 2018

Inside Story: How Huntsville landed the nation’s top job-creation project

Mayor Tommy Battle won’t likely forget the past holiday season any time soon. From Thanksgiving to Christmas, for hours on [ Read More ]

January 10th, 2018

BIG Picture impact: Toyota-Mazda project meets master plan vision

As Dennis Madsen, Huntsville’s Manager of Long-Range Planning put it, “A decade ago we had already started doing master-planning for [ Read More ]

January 10th, 2018

Raising the bar: How Huntsville fosters an exceptional and growing workforce

Six years ago, Mayor Tommy Battle watched with amazement a robotics demonstration at a Huntsville middle school, with the students [ Read More ]

December 6th, 2017

BOCAR finds ‘first-class location’ in Huntsville for its first U.S. manufacturing facility

Ground was broken 20 miles away from the actual site, shovels ceremonially plunged into a pile of dirt under the [ Read More ]

October 9th, 2017

It’s academic: Educational partnerships boost Huntsville’s workforce development

Access to a skilled and available workforce is one of the most important aspects of economic development. It’s also one [ Read More ]

October 6th, 2017

What’s behind Huntsville’s booming development scene

The phones weren’t ringing. The email inbox sat empty when Jim McGuffey, the Manager of Planning Services for the City [ Read More ]

September 7th, 2017

Gaining ground in the lucrative tourism and hospitality market

When visitors arrive in Huntsville, we expect them to look up in awe under the Saturn V rocket at the U.S. [ Read More ]

August 25th, 2017

Sporting Synergy: Huntsville’s secret sauce for sports tourism

Sports tourism is big business for Huntsville. In this two-part series, City Blog Senior Writer Mark McCarter looks at the [ Read More ]

August 24th, 2017

Get to know Huntsville’s key players in Sports Tourism

Photo credit: Eric Schultz / Rocket City Photo Sports tourism is big business for Huntsville. In this two-part series, City Blog [ Read More ]