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Production is slated to begin in 2021 and reach 300,000 vehicles produced annually. The new facility is expected to create up to 4,000 jobs.
Mayor Tommy Battle, Limestone County Commission Chair Mark Yarbrough, and Hundley Batts - Chair of the Industrial Development Board of the City of Huntsville signed the development agreement for Toyota-Mazda on Wednesday.
PeopleTec of Huntsville has been awarded a $33.6 million contract for engineering and support by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.
The contract covers systems advisory and engineering activities for international programs in the Ballistic Missile Defense System, according to the U.S. Defense Department.
That means work with the system which intercepts ballistic missile threats aimed at regional interests, allies and deployed forces.
Four Birmingham landmarks are now part of a new project celebrating the South's rich civil rights legacy.
Several tourism departments have launched the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, a network of some of the most important civil rights sites during the movement's heyday in the 1950s and 1960s.
The trail includes almost 130 museums, churches, courthouses and other landmarks - almost 30 of which are in Alabama.
