With more than 100 people moving to the Huntsville area each week, it’s no surprise the Rocket City is now the second-largest municipality in Alabama. If current trajectories hold true, it could be the most populous city in the state in three years or less.
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Huntsville is ready for this growth. In fact, we planned for it. Our strategy included heavy investment in major roads, sewer systems, new schools and industrial parks. We reinvested in urban commercial corridors in every sector of the city to include mixed-use redevelopment projects such as the Johnson Legacy Center, Campus No. 805, Stovehouse, Sandra Moon Complex, Twickenham Square, City Centre and MidCity. Our community has been heavily involved in this planning. Through the BIG Picture comprehensive master plan, residents helped envision how, where and what growth would look like. The BIG Picture is our guiding compass and has led to more public-private partnerships and new investment in parks, bike lanes, greenways and cultural assets. Aggressive economic development strategies created tens of thousands of new jobs and billions in capital investment. Facebook, Blue Origin, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Polaris, GE Aviation and Mazda Toyota Manufacturing diversified our economic portfolio while Redstone Arsenal transitioned to a federal campus with more than 80 tenants in aerospace and defense. Thousands more FBI personnel and their families are coming here because of the new FBI facility at Redstone. Huntsville’s selection as the permanent home of U.S. Space Command will bring thousands more high-paying jobs.
—Tommy Battle
Huntsville is enjoying an unprecedented level of prosperity. We are finally growing into the city we’ve always dreamed of becoming – the Star of Alabama.
—Tommy Battle Mayor of Huntsville
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