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A solid majority of workers at the Mercedes-Benz assembly plant in Vance, Ala., rejected the idea of forming their own UAW local this month, proving that the union's audacious $40 [...]

DC BLOX reported the opening of its fourth data center facility in Birmingham, Alabama. According to a media release, the first phase of the facility, now customer ready, delivers up [...]

World championship wheelchair rugby is coming to Birmingham, Ala., next year. Birmingham CrossPlex was named as one of several venues to host events during next July's World Games 2022 in [...]

The Blount Springs Retreat in Alabama is a two-story vacation house with several function areas. The house features two entrances, deep front porches, doric columns, metal roof and extra insulation. The house was designed by Stephen S. Fuller and constructed by D.S. Smith Building Co.

Many interesting convention sites are located in the southern regions of the US. Atlanta, GA, has been chosen as the site of the 1994 Summer Bowl and the 1996 Summer Olympics, hence the opening of the 71,500-capacity Georgia Dome in Aug 1992. In Louisiana, the New Orleans Convention Center has been upgraded and renamed into the Ernest Morial Convention Center.The expansion has been matched by Alabama's Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center while Mississippi's come-on has been the legalization of dockside gambling.

Byline: Michael Romano The battle over a lucrative hospital market in suburban Huntsville, Ala., has been put on indefinite hold until the freshman governor appoints an entirely new batch of [...]

Colonial BancGroup Inc. has expanded beyond its home state largely through acquisitions, but it is staking future growth at least partly on branch building. The Montgomery, Ala., company plans to [...]

Recycling Smurfit-Stone to handle Philly recycling Philadelphia - Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. will purchase and process the city of Philadelphia's recyclables under a one-year contract covering 1.4 million residents and various [...]

Hyundai Motor Co.'s decision to build a $1 billion assembly plant in Alabama carries a lesson and prompts a caution. First, the lesson. Hyundai's triumphs can serve as a reminder [...]

Elmore, Ala. - Alabama prison officials have settled a lawsuit filed by inmates who work in a recycling operation adjacent to the Elmore Correctional Facility. The prisoners claim in their [...]

ALABAMA Power of the USA has bought two Manitowoc 21000s to work on the 20-month expansion and renovation at the James H Miller, Jr Electric Generating Plant in Alabama which [...]

Toyota has announced that it has selected a 200-acre site in Huntsville, AL for its newest engine plant in North America. The plant will machine and assemble V8 engines for [...]

More than 3,000 people recently attended the dedication of the $10 million Rosa Parks Library and Museum on the grounds of Troy State University in Montgomery, AL. The dedication marked [...]

The Mid-South is the land of new and different venues, The states of Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee offer one of the nation's most diverse venue menus, from the [...]

DaimlerChrysler plans to double the size of its lone North American Mercedes-Benz plant. The expanded factory will assemble more sport-utilities and possibly another vehicle. The automaker is expected to announce [...]

Teksid Aluminum Foundry Inc., a subsidiary of Fiat Auto S.p.A., will open a new engine castings plant in central Alabama. The Italian supplier, which has a deepening relationship with the [...]

Steel stamper Ogihara America Corp. is expanding into aluminum and soon will announce new customers for its Birmingham, Ala., stamping plant. Last week company officials called reports of new five-year [...]

NEW YORK -- Saks Fifth Avenue will open a 100,000-square-foot store in The Summit shopping center in Birmingham, Ala., in spring 2001, the company said Monday. Saks Inc., the parent [...]

A study found that home prices in Birmingham, Alabama increased by one percent from the first quarter of 2008 to the first quarter of 2009 which is in contrary to the trend in other metropolitan areas. The increase is consistent in a 10-year period of Birmingham's home price pattern. Conditions of residential real estate in other regions are discussed.

Mercedes-Benz's Vance plant in Alabama which exclusively builds sports utility vehicles has continued to lag as the demand for SUVs dropped by 50 percent in the first quarter of 2009. With the economic downturn, the company should change the scope of its production capabilities like paying more attention to the production of small cars.

The Hoover Family Festival LLC, Hoover, Alabama-based real estate developer, bought a land for the construction of a $12 million shopping center. The kid-friendly project, to be completed by the end of 2009, is already attracting retail tenants. Details of the planned development are further discussed.

FOR YEARS, WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY saw the Bar-B-Q Inn only with its windows shuttered. When he finally came upon it with its doors open and went inside, he found a bartender […]

look again SPRUCED UP. The Pick-wick Hotel & Suites & Conference Center completed a renovation of all 63 guest rooms in September. January will mark the debut of the Magnolia [...]

A journalist narrates his experience of joining high school students on a trip aboard the sea laboratory, A.E. Verrill, on Dauphin Island in Alabama. The students were able to examine different kinds of fishes which the ship crew caught for them.

Mercedes-Benz AG has chosen Vance, AL, as the site of its $300 million sport-utility vehicle manufacturing plant. This was made after a two-year search among 170 locations across 30 states. Analysts predict, that with these decision, Mercedes-Benz will contribute around $365 million for the first year and about $7.3 billion for the following 20 years to the economic progress of the small town of Vance. The 1,500-employee manufacturing facility will be constructed in the spring of 1994 with 1997 as the projected start of operations.

Daimler-Benz Ag is planning to make its new sport-utility the basis of a new US sales channel. The new sport-utility, which will be assembled in Vance, AL, will spearhead the launching of the company's lower-priced products. Executives, however, do not know the exact relationship that the new channel will have with Mercedes' existing dealer network. The idea of establishing a totally new selling network, however, is not being considered because of financial factors.

Alabama is quite optimistic about being able to rope in a new Volkswagen AG production plant in their area despite a cash crunch. The officials are working out various incentives to make it an attractive offer, which Volkswagen will not be able to resist.

A cooperative effort by state and local officials in the state of Alabama helped land a major expansion project, which is expected to bring tens of thousands of direct and [...]