Huntsville Growth

Forbes: Top 10 smartest cities in the WORLD 12-09, Top 5 best cities for recession recovery 7-09, Top 5 cities for defense jobs 4-09
Fortune Small Business: Top mid-sized city to launch and grow a business 9-09
Kiplingers: Nations best city in 2009-July 2009
CNN Money-top 6 places to find a job 5-09
Wall Street Journal-Country's leading Metro for consumer lending growth 3-09
S&P -HSV receives the highest possible rating for strength of the local economy with an "AAA". 01/09
Yahoo- one of 10 great cities for salary growth 1-09
Milken Institute: Top 10 best performing cities in the country 11-09
USNews: Top 10 places for tech jobs 9-09
City of Madison named the second best place to grow up in the US 8-09
Business Week: Second best recovering job market 11-09, 4th among America's 20 strongest building markets 9-09
Christian Science Monitor: Named of the nations next "boom towns"
Relocate America: Top 10 places to live-7-09
Business Week- top 50 best places to raise children in the US 11-08
Milken Institute- top 5 best performing cities in the country 10-08
Expansion Solutions-top 5 locations for aerospace companies 10-08
US News-10 best cities for job seeking retirees 9-08
Smart Money-top 5 cities for job opportunities 9-08
Staffing Industry Analysts, Inc: Top 5 engineering and design markets 7-08
Southern Business & Development: #1 mid-market in the south 8-08
Forbes: Leading cities for business 4-09, top 5 cities for defense jobs 4-09, Madison County, best place to live to weather the economy 11-08, one of the fastest growing metros in country 1-08
Inc.: Top 5 mid-sized cities for doing business-7-08
Popular Science: One of America's leading greenest cities 3-08
Huntsville was named one of the Top 5 Cities for Job Opportunities – SmartMoney.com, September 2008
Huntsville was named one of the Top 5 Best Performing Cities in the Country – Milken Institute, September 2008
Huntsville was named the Number One Mid-Market in the South – Southern Business Development Magazine, June 2006 and August 2008
Huntsville was named one of America’s Top 5 Mid-Sized Cities for Doing Business – Inc.com, July 2008
Huntsville is one of the Country’s Top 10 Technology Cities, Ranking 3rd in the Country for Concentration of Technology Workers – Cybercities 2008, June 2008
Huntsville was named one of the Country’s Top 10 Places to Live – Relocate-America.com, May 2008
Huntsville was named one of America’s Leading Greenest Cities – Poplar Science, March 2008
Forbes Projects Huntsville to be one of the Fastest Growing Metros in the Country – Forbes Magazine, January 2008
Wall Street Journal: Top 10 metro for business vitality 6-07
Computerworld: Top 5 cities for information technology 10-07
Cybercities 2008: #3 America's leading technology cities
National Geographic Adventure: Top adventure town 9-07
Kiplingers Personal Finance: Top 5 cities for professional workers 6-07
Foreign Direct Investment: #1 small city of the future 4-07
In September of 2007 Verizon Wireless opened a call center which currently employs approximately 600 people and another 600 are expected by the end 2008. This new call center will bring 1450 total new jobs to this area.
The new HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology houses approximately 900 new PHD level jobs and makes Huntsville one of the leading biotechnology research cities of the world.
Booz Allen Hamilton recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the expansion of its facility in Cummings Research Park. Booz Allen officials indicated that the expansion was just the beginning and that the goal was to get the Huntsville office up to 500-plus employees.
Comcast, the nation’s leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services announced plans for a new regional customer call center to be located in Huntsville. The new regional call center will add more than 200 jobs in Huntsville and will assist residential cable, high-speed Internet, and digital phone customers.
Tetra Tech Engineering Management Concepts recently held a ribbon cutti ng event to celebrate the opening of a new Huntsville offi ce and to announce the expansion of its workforce in the community. They anti cipate adding about 100 new jobs within a 12- month period.
Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) recently held a ribbon cutting and open house ceremony at its new office in Huntsville. The 21,000 square-foot floor plan will house offices for approximately 85 employees.
WestWind Technologies, Inc. (WTI) recently opened a new 61,000 square foot facility from Industrial Properties of the South to house the production of CH-47 Chinook Helicopter flight simulators. Already, production efforts have created more than 30 jobs in Madison County, and another 30 job openings are expected as the facility goes into full production.
Huntsville-based Digium, creator and primary developer of Asterisk®, the telecommunications industry’s first open source telephony platform, recently celebrated a ribbon cutting and grand opening at its new state-of-the-art headquarters in Cummings Research Park.
SPARTA, an employee-owned aerospace and defense contractor, recently opened a new 95,000 square-foot facility in Thornton Research Park in Huntsville.
Baron Services recently held a ground breaking ceremony to announce the expansion of its business.