Why Invest In Huntsville / Decatur Alabama???

    "3,000-5,000 New Jobs created at RedStone Arsenal (Army) Center beginning October 31, 2005" per Huntsville Chamber of Commerce.

"Cash Flow" & "Property Appreciation"

Huntsville / Decatur , Alabama Metropolitan area is home to approximately 468,000 people, with an "Annual Average Median Income of $57,379.00".  Located in the Heart of the Tennessee Valley, just 90 miles South of NASHVILLE, this prosperous Area has an Unemployment Rate of only 3% and an average "Home Appreciation rate of 13%.  Rental Vacancy Rate is only 2%-3% with most properties renting within days of coming on the market per local property management companies. 

Huntsville, one of "FORBES MAGAZINES" "Top ten cities in the United States" has over 225 Research and Design firms and 220 manufacturing companies. CUMMINGS RESEARCH AND DESIGN PARK is the second largest in the US.

Among these military and "Fortune 100/500 Companies" are:

• Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA)
• Redstone Arsenal (ARMY)
• U S Army Strategic Missile and Defense Command
• U S Army Aviation and Missile Command
• Boeing Company
• General Dynamics Corporation
• Sanmina/SCI (Huntsville is the home office of SCI.)
• IBM Corporation
• Computer Science Corporation
• SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation)
• Siemens Automotive
• Toyota Motor Manufacturing
• Kohler
• Teledyne Brown Engineering
• Martin Marietta
• Steel Case
• Raytheon
• Panelpina

Huntsville International Airport, “The Port of HSV”, has direct runway access and 100 flights daily to major cities in the US and abroad. The jetplex grounds house a Sheraton Four Points Hotel, conference rooms, restaurants, car rentals, along with golf and tennis on premises. Adjacent (no more than two miles ) is the International Intermodal Center, the Foreign Trade Zone #83, making the strong additiontotheinterstate commerce.

In the heart of this "High Tech” center lies the campus of the University of Alabama/Huntsville. UAH offers 62 degree programs including 17 master’s degrees and 10 PhD categories. UAH does extensive research (over 200 Million in the last five years) with government agencies such as Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA), US Army and Aviation, and US Army’s Strategic Missile and Defense Command. DISCOVER MAGAZINE featured this research in one of their top 100 science stories for 2003. The most heavily read story on EurekAlert! 2003 was about the ozone layer from UAH’s EARTH SYSTEMSCIENCE CENTER.

The HSV/DECATUR area lies 573 feet above sea level with average Temperatures as follows: