Huntsville Scores Dual Triple-A Credit Rating for 12th Straight Year

Article Title: Huntsville Scores Dual Triple-A Credit Rating for 12th Straight Year

Article Snip: "...For the 12th time in 12 years, since Mayor Tommy Battle first assumed office, Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s Rating Services have awarded Huntsville Triple-A credit ratings. Triple-A is the highest mark a city can achieve and is awarded to a minority of government entities in the nation. Further, just 1 percent of 19,502 cities and counties receive the top ratings from both services..."

Article Source: huntsvillebusinessjournal.com
What is Huntsville's Credit Rating?, Triple-A Credit Rating (Huntsville 2020),Mayor Tommy Battle,

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Military Stability Commission is protecting Alabama’s long tradition of defense presence

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Article Snip: "...The military bases located in Alabama – from Rucker to Redstone to McClellan/Anniston and Maxwell/Gunter – have served our nation dutifully in times of peace and war, and they play vital roles in the economies, culture and quality of life in the communities in which they operate. Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery..."

Article Source: yellowhammernews.com
Military Stability Commission,

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Huntsville pursuing claims against bankrupt Remington

Article Title: Huntsville pursuing claims against bankrupt Remington

Article Snip: "...“When we talked to the public years ago when Remington came in, we told them we had them protected,” Battle said. The city holds a $12.5 million lien on the Remington facility – a 843,175 square foot building formally known as the old Chrysler building..."

Article Source: www.al.com
Remington, Industry Tax Breaks, Failed Financial Deals, Mayor Tommy Battle,

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400,000 SF Industrial Facility Groundbreaking in Huntsville, AL

Article Title: 400,000 SF Industrial Facility Groundbreaking in Huntsville, AL

Article Snip: "...groundbreaking of a new 404,738 SF industrial building in the SouthPoint Business Park in Huntsville, Alabama. This will be the 11th facility developed by The Hollingsworth Companies in SouthPoint..."

Article Source: www.prnewswire.com

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Mazda-Toyota Boosts Investment in Alabama Plant by $830M

Article Title: Mazda-Toyota Boosts Investment in Alabama Plant by $830M

Article Snip: "...The additional money will be used to incorporate cutting edge manufacturing technologies and training for 4,000 new workers..."

Article Source: www.mbtmag.com
Rocket City News

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Health official warns north Alabama faces ‘going off the cliff’ on COVID-19

Article Title: Health official warns north Alabama faces ‘going off the cliff’ on COVID-19

Article Snip: "...The news about COVID-19 in north Alabama wasn’t good Monday with more cases reported, hospital workers sidelined by the disease and some businesses failing to follow a mask order issued by Madison County health officials..."

Article Source: www.msn.com
corona virus, Covid-19, Pandemic,

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Widening of I-565 in Huntsville to start Sunday

Article Title: Widening of I-565 in Huntsville to start Sunday

Article Snip: "...It’s been a much-anticipated project pushed by Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle in recent years leading up to the announcement by Gov. Kay Ivey in April 2019 that it would come to fruition..."

Article Source: www.al.com
Taxes, Restore Our Roads, I-565, Road Improvements,

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Huntsville jumps in latest Census count, on pace to be largest city in Alabama within two years

Article Title: Huntsville jumps in latest Census count, on pace to be largest city in Alabama within two years

Article Snip: "...Population estimates released last month by the U.S. Census Bureau show Huntsville has added thousands of people a year since 2010, leaping from a population of 180,000 in 2010 to over 200,000 in 2019. That 20,000 person increase is the largest of any city in the state over that time period..."

Article Source: www.al.com
Census 2020, Rocket City, Huntsville,

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Multifamily developers buy 22 acres for huge apartment complex in Huntsville

Article Title: Multifamily developers buy 22 acres for huge apartment complex in Huntsville

Article Snip: "...The development is immediately adjacent to the 550-acre mixed-use Clift Farm development. The project at 1150 Balch Road will be the company’s second multifamily community in the Huntsville area. Watermark at Bridge Street Town Centre, a 244-unit Class A multifamily community located at 6854 Governors West NW was completed in 2019 and is currently 86 percent occupied..."

Article Source: www.bizjournals.com
Watermark Residential, Class A garden-style multifamily community,

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Alabama at risk of losing congressional seat, funding; state asks for increase in census participation

Article Title: Alabama at risk of losing congressional seat, funding; state asks for increase in census participation

census.alabama.gov

Article Snip: "...The census numbers will determine how much federal money the state will get for roads, Medicaid, Medicare and much more. But it also determines Alabama’s representation in Congress. Right now Alabama is at risk of losing a congressional seat, based on early estimates. And Alabama is the only state in the south in that position..."

Article Source: www.waff.com

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Looking back, looking ahead with Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle

Article Title: Looking back, looking ahead with Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle

Article Snip: "...'If 2018 was the announcement year, 2019 was the year you really had to do the work. If you've been out to Greenbrier lately and seen 84 acres coming up under roof, seen the road work that's being done, everything to be ready for the Mazda Toyota production.... anybody who hasn't passed an orange cone lately, probably has not been looking, because there are orange cones everywhere, but, it just means we're growing.'..."

Article Source: whnt.com

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Court says workers can’t sue over blocked Birmingham, Alabama minimum wage boost

Article Title: Court says workers can’t sue over blocked minimum wage boost

Article Snip: "...The city of Birmingham in 2016 had planned to raise the minimum wage to $10 per hour. Alabama lawmakers responded by swiftly passing a state law that blocked cities from implementing their own minimum wage..."

Article Source: www.wrbl.com
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