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The Rocket City Brief

The Rocket City Brief

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The Rocket City Brief is a short weekday audio briefing for Huntsville, Alabama's business, defense, aerospace, relocation, and real-estate crowd. Each episode filters development, permits, employer moves, contracts, housing signals, and local policy into a useful local read for a fast-growing metro with thin daily business audio.© 2026 The Rocket City Brief Politics & Government
Episodes
  • Huntsville's building boom isn't about apartments anymore — The Rocket City Brief

    Huntsville's building boom isn't about apartments anymore — The Rocket City Brief
    Jul 12 2026
    Huntsville's building boom rotated in 2025: apartments cooled toward their long-run average while single-family lot approvals hit an eighteen-year high and commercial permits clustered on the western edge of Cummings Research Park — plus the City optioned about 516 acres for future industry.
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    4 mins
  • Huntsville's downtown tax district and the penny funding the Von Braun Center — The Rocket City Brief

    Huntsville's downtown tax district and the penny funding the Von Braun Center — The Rocket City Brief
    Jul 11 2026
    Huntsville's City Council approved a new one percent hotel lodging tax and a downtown tax increment financing district — TIF 9 — to fund a roughly two hundred million dollar Von Braun Center expansion, with no general tax-rate increase. Here's the plain-English breakdown of how the financing machine works and exactly who pays.
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    4 mins
  • Six Billion Dollars: Why Eli Lilly's Alabama Campus Is Huntsville's Contractor Signal

    Six Billion Dollars: Why Eli Lilly's Alabama Campus Is Huntsville's Contractor Signal
    Jul 8 2026
    Alabama just landed its largest-ever private investment: a six-billion-dollar Eli Lilly pharmaceutical campus at I-565 and Greenbrier Parkway. We break down what 450 permanent jobs, three thousand construction slots, and a six-year build window mean for Huntsville operators.
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    4 mins
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