Community News and New Developments

Small businesses seem to like a unified Republican government.   by Luke Kawa December 13, 2016, 7:02 AM CST President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. elections is a giant leap for small businesses, according to a survey of their owners. The November reading of the National Federation of Independent Businesses’ small business optimism index…

  A new mixed-use development will soon begin taking shape in a vacant corner lot in the heart of downtown Huntsville. 225 Holmes will break ground this fall. (Courtesy photo) Huntsville real estate firm Crunkleton & Associates said a groundbreaking ceremony will be held this fall for 225 Holmes, a 32,000-square-foot retail and office project…

By Lucy Berry | lberry@al.com AL.com Follow on Twitter on May 23, 2016 at 5:30 PM, updated May 24, 2016 at 7:01 AM   Cummings Research Park will look very different under guidelines listed in a new master plan presented today by the Chamber of Commerce in Huntsville. Nearly nine months after hiring architecture and…

  Sales: According to the North Alabama Multiple Listing Service, Huntsville/Madison County residential sales totaled 508 units during March, an increase in sales growth of 8.5 percent or 40 units from the same period last year. Two more resources to review: Quarterly Report and Annual Report. For all of Huntsville’s area housing data, click here.  Forecast: Closed transactions in March were 87 units or 20 percent above our monthly…

Huntsville: Gig City USA Mayor Tommy Battle announced that in 2017, Google Fiber will be bringing its ultra-fast internet service to Huntsville. Huntsville will now be the 10th city in the country with such incredible speeds–roughly 1-gigabit per second–or nearly 85 times that of the average current speed in the U.S. Google Fiber will partner…

By Lee Roop | lroop@al.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on February 11, 2016 at 8:33 PM, updated February 12, 2016 at 6:53 AM The Huntsville City Council unanimously approved two ordinances Thursday night designed to allow new-style taxi companies such as Uber and Lyft to operate in the city. City officials say…

A fast-growing hotel brand with Spanish roots will be the first tenant to break ground this year at CityCentre at Big Spring in downtown Huntsville. A guest room at AC Hotels by Marriott in Miami Beach. (achotels.marriott.com)  AC Hotels by Marriott will anchor the $100 million mixed-use project across from Big Spring International Park and…

By Lucy Berry | lberry@al.com Follow on Twitter on February 12, 2016 at 3:31 PM A 276-unit apartment community in Huntsville was sold recently for more than $15 million. Commercial real estate company Berkadia said today it has negotiated the sale of Stone Crossing on University Drive to Stone Crossing 2014, LLC, for $15,150,000. The…

    File photo – In this Feb. 22, 2011 file photo, a farmer drives his tractor in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. The Obama administration has approved the first U.S. factory in Cuba in more than half a century, allowing a pair of former software engineers to build a plant assembling as many as 1,000…

Sunset & moonrise Downtown Huntsville in Big Spring International Park. (Bob Gathany/bgathany@AL.com) on February 01, 2016 at 12:09 PM, updated February 01, 2016 at 3:42 PM A new study ranks Huntsville as one of the cheapest cities you’d actually want to live in in 2016. Livability.com has named the Rocket City the most affordable in…