Category: Top News
City approves $240 million retail and restaurant development in north Huntsville
November 6, 2025
The City of Huntsville approved a significant new project that will deliver more than 500,000 square feet of new retail and restaurants in north Huntsville. The transformational $240 million development project will bring extraordinary investment to the intersection of State Route 255 and Memorial Parkway (U.S. 231/431). The development will be located across Memorial Parkway from the new full-service Food City grocery store that opened in July. The development will be at [more]
Read MorePhase 2 of Mill Creek project moves forward with funding for senior housing plans
November 6, 2025
The City of Huntsville is continuing its commitment to transformative, inclusive development in the Mill Creek neighborhood, as it passed a resolution for Mayor Tommy Battle to execute a predevelopment loan agreement with Mill Creek Phase 2, LP, providing up to $1.98 million in interest-free predevelopment funding. This financing will support Phase 2 of the Mill Creek Choice Neighborhood Initiative, enabling planning, design and due diligence work to pave the way for [more]
Read MoreHuntsville Music Office to host quarterly meetup, recap record-breaking year
November 6, 2025
Huntsville’s music ecosystem continues to command national attention, and the community that helped make it possible is invited to celebrate another milestone year at its final Quarterly Music Meetup of 2025 on Thursday, Nov. 20, from 6-8 p.m. The free meetup will be held at the newly opened Vesper Sky Lounge at the Trilogy Hotel, 707 Monroe St. SW, and will bring together artists, venue owners, creative professionals, industry supporters and [more]
Read MoreAnimal Services, H.A.W.S. to host free pet food drive-thru event on Nov. 16
November 5, 2025
To help pet owners affected by the ongoing government shutdown, Huntsville Animal Services is partnering with H.A.W.S. (Helping Animals Without Shelter) to host a free pet food drive-thru event on Sunday, Nov. 16. The free, rain-or-shine event will be held from 1-4 p.m. at Tractor Supply, 3240c Memorial Parkway NW. During the event, volunteers and staff will distribute free pet food, no questions asked and no restrictions, to ensure local families can [more]
Read MoreHuntsville breaks ground on dramatic expansion of U.S. Veterans Memorial Museum
November 4, 2025
Just a week before Veterans Day, the City of Huntsville formally broke ground on the expansion of the U.S. Veterans Memorial Museum in John Hunt Park. At approximately 35,000 square feet, the museum expansion is almost the length of a football field, significantly expanding its footprint and providing more space for the display of memorabilia dating back to the American Revolution. At the ceremony, the Redstone-Huntsville Chapter of AUSA presented the museum [more]
Read MoreHuntsville approves construction of greenway in south Huntsville
October 23, 2025
The City’s expansive greenway plan took another step with approval of a contract to build 1.5 miles of greenway between Green Cove Road/Buxton Road and Hobbs Road/Redstone Road that will be part of the Tennessee River Greenway in south Huntsville. This will complete the final link to create a 15-mile greenway loop between the Tennessee River Greenway and Aldridge Creek Greenway via the Weatherly Road multi-use path in south Huntsville. This [more]
Read MoreCity approves partnership to expand affordable housing in northwest Huntsville
October 23, 2025
Homeownership dreams are taking shape in northwest Huntsville with the City’s approval of an agreement with Family Services Center to turn an empty lot on Olson Street into a welcoming, affordable home for a local family. Family Services Center Inc. is a certified Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO). The agreement allows the nonprofit to use $238,750 in federal HOME Investment Partnerships funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development [more]
Read MoreRetail opportunities expanding in downtown Huntsville
October 23, 2025
Commercial development is expanding in downtown Huntsville on Clinton Avenue, between Washington and Jefferson streets. The City updated a lease agreement with Clinton Row Partners LLC to create additional retail square footage for the ground-floor retail space within the Clinton Avenue Parking Garage. The new agreement will provide about 300 square feet of retail space alongside the existing 7,000 square feet established on the ground floor in 2016. The new retail space [more]
Read MoreTricks, treats and tails: Huntsville Animal Services to host fourth annual Howl-o-Ween Trunk ‘r Treat
October 23, 2025
Ghosts, goblins and ghouls of all ages are invited to the fourth annual Howl-O-Ween Trunk ’r Treat hosted by Huntsville Animal Services on Friday, Oct. 31, from 3-5 p.m. Attendees are encouraged to come in costume to this free, family-friendly event featuring festive games, candy-filled car trunks and waived adoption fees on most adorable adoptable pets (some exclusions apply). Each adopted pet comes spayed or neutered, vaccinated, microchipped and ready to head [more]
Read MoreMayor’s Tree Planting Day returns Nov. 1
October 21, 2025
Mayor Tommy Battle and Huntsville’s Green Team will host the Mayor’s Tree Planting Day at Brahan Spring Park on Saturday, Nov. 1, from 9 a.m. to noon. The annual planting event brings together community volunteers who want to help grow Huntsville’s tree canopy – one of the City’s most important natural resources. Green Team will prepare hundreds of tree planting sites and provide all the tools and supplies needed. Volunteers may drop [more]
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