Spotlight on Jackson, Marshall, DeKalb & Cherokee: Community Development
Jackson County
Jackson County was selected to participate in the Rural Recovery Accelerator, a new community-oriented technical assistance program to help rural communities build economic...
Commercial Real Estate Firms 2021
Alabama's commercial real estate firms ranked by number of employees. The source for this listing is surveys conducted by Business Alabama.
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Ohio-based Gregory Industries building plant in Athens; Alabama-built Hyundai SUV will be movie star;...
Ohio-based Gregory Industries, which makes highway safety and other roll form steel products, will spend $30 million to build a 325,000-square-foot plant in Athens.
Spotlight on Jackson, Marshall, DeKalb & Cherokee: Higher Education
Northeast Alabama Community College
Northeast Alabama Community College is a major provider of higher education, career and technical programs, degrees and certificates. The main campus...
Spotlight on Jackson, Marshall, DeKalb & Cherokee: Movers & Shapers
Brian Baine
Baine is mayor of Fort Payne. He is a graduate of Fort Payne High School and attended Northeast Community College and Gadsden State...
Smith & Co. will open $2.6 million facility in Birmingham
Smith & Co., a precision CNC machining startup, will invest $2.56 million to open a facility in Birmingham.
USA researcher looking to make water from air
Attention, Star Wars trivia buffs. In the iconic original movie, circa 1977, what did Luke Skywalker’s family do to make a living on the...
Spotlight on Jackson, Marshall, DeKalb & Cherokee: Health Care
Highlands Medical Center
Jackson County is home to Highlands Medical Center, a 170-bed full service, acute care facility in Scottsboro owned by Jackson County Health...
Spotlight on Jackson, Marshall, DeKalb & Cherokee: Economic Engines
Jackson County
Carpets and flooring
The county’s largest manufacturing sector is carpet, rugs and flooring, with at least 2,000 employees. The larger companies include Maples Industries...
EV production at Hyundai on schedule; Petition circulating to bring sausage rolls back; Flatbed...
Chung Euisun, chairman of Hyundai Motor Group, said in Korea Monday that planned production of electronic vehicles at the company’s Montgomery plant is on schedule but “it will certainly not be next year.”