The Tower: Prestige Digs in Tuscaloosa
Real estate developer William Yandell was having lunch with his son in downtown Tuscaloosa in 2009 when he spotted one of the city’s iconic...
The Gas Price Bonus: Alabama 2nd to Tennessee on Gas Savings
Compared to a year ago, Americans are saving almost $110 million dollars a day on gas prices, gasbuddy.com, a Maryland-based fuel comparison website, estimated...
HudsonAlpha Breeds Serial Entrepreneurs
When the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology opened in Huntsville in 2009, it promised to boost genomic research, economic development and educational outreach.
The institute has...
Alabama's Largest Private Companies
Sources: Dunn & Bradstreet, Standard & Poor’s, Reference USA and company surveys. Those companies submitting information are marked with an * after...
Alabama's Largest Architecture Firms
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Alabama's Largest Engineering Firms 2014
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Polaris Sensor Technologies Inc: Footprints in the Dark Illuminated
CEOs like to talk about “vision, ” but, at Polaris Sensor Technologies Inc. in Huntsville, it’s not a metaphorical discussion.
The company’s latest product generates enhanced...
Tracking the Long Life of Nuclear Harm
In a spate of recent medical journal articles and presentations at scientific conferences, Dr. Wladimir Wertelecki has warned that long-term health risks from nuclear...
GATR Technologies: Creative Dishing and the Next Big Thing
The engineers at GATR Technologies in Huntsville knew they had a good product early on, because, at natural disaster sites in the Philippines where...
Ed Robbins III: The Shoals’ Inventor/Entrepreneur
Imagine. That’s what Edward “Ed” Stanley Robbins III has done his whole life. It’s the reason that, at age 82, he holds more than...
