Congratulations to our Contenders for the 2025 Best Places to Work® Awards!  These will be held on Tuesday, May 13 at 11:30 a.m. in the Von Braun Center Saturn Ballroom. We look forward to celebrating with you.

SpaceFactory, a Huntsville-based advanced manufacturing company, is set to engage with local businesses to address supply chain disruptions triggered by tariffs. Their large-scale 3D printing system, capable of building parts up to 4’ x 4’ x 5’, will offer local firms the opportunity to produce cost-competitive components domestically, reducing reliance on overseas suppliers.

Here's an updated list of the Huntsville-area companies that have earned the designation! If you haven't taken the assessment yet, we encourage you to do so today!

Ahead of National Small Business Week, the U.S. Small Business Administration announced the 2025 nationally recognized Small Business Person of the Year award winners from each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam. Kim and Larry Lewis, owners of PROJECTXYZ, INC., were selected as the Alabama Small Business Persons of the Year.

We are excited to welcome 62 athletes to Huntsville for the 2025 U.S. Paralympic Cycling Time Trial on March 29 in Cummings Research Park! These are the athletes who are registered, and the list includes several who medaled in the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris.

HUNTSVILLE, AL; March 18, 2025 — The City of Huntsville, Alabama has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025, earning a spot in the Economic Development category. The City is named alongside the ranks of Waymo, Nvidia, Duolingo, and more. 

We hosted our pitch finale for the first cohort of the CRP DefenseTech Accelerator on March 6 and it was a phenomenal event. The four companies -- SpaceFactory, 6th Dimension, BrakeSens, and Ethar pitched their products and technologies to a crowd of investors and local business leaders.

Starting on Saturday, March 1, employers in Alabama can reserve Childcare Tax Credits. If you're interested in this, please mark it on your calendar to act, because these are first-come, first-served. We've got the information you need to get started.

Congratulations to our latest winners of the Distinguished Service Award, Shane Davis and LaFreeda Jordan! Our 2024 Board Chair, Sameer Singhal, also handed the gavel over to our new Chair, Jeff Samz.

We are thrilled to announce that America's top Para-cyclists will return to Huntsville for the 2025 U.S. Paralympics Cycling Time Trial. The one-day event will be held on March 29, 2025 in Cummings Research Park, and will determine Team USA’s roster for the first two UCI Para-Cycling World Cup competitions of the 2025 season.

Here's an updated list of the Huntsville-area companies that have earned the designation! If you haven't taken the assessment yet, we encourage you to do so today!

Owners and key financial decisionmakers of for-profit businesses, share your recent experiences. How would you rate the financial condition of your business? Did your business seek financing such as loans or lines of credit in the last 12 months? Within the past 12 months, did your business sustain losses from a natural disaster? Take the 10-minute survey now.