Sand Mountain Park & Amphitheater is proud to announce its selection as a Readers' Choice All-Star Outdoor Sports Events Venue by SportsEvents Magazine. The 130-acre park shines as one of the top venues in the country for sports tournaments, recreation, wellness, and entertainment.

For the first time, there’s going to be actual athletic activity at the Etowah County Mega Sports Complex in Rainbow City.

The complex on Saturday will host the Northeast Alabama Soccer Officials’ annual training event, according to a news release from Greater Gadsden Area Tourism.

The event will feature 29 boys’ and girls’ high school teams playing at least 38 games, to give referees required training to qualify them for state playoff consideration.

The city has entered into a professional services agreement​ for the next phase of work on a new Benjamin Barnes Branch YMCA

Comparisons are often made between Fort Payne and Albertville in terms of economic development. Fort Payne considered building a new sports facility, but settled on renovating the existing sports complex. Albertville, on the other hand, moved forward with an audacious project requiring a huge financial investment. A picture of that city’s return on investment is becoming clearer.

The Sand Mountain Park & Amphitheater announced this week it has generated $23.2 million in economic impact for Marshall County during the timeframe of October 2021-September 2022.

SYLACAUGA, Ala. – In the Council chambers of City Hall on Thursday evening, Nov. 10, representatives from Chambless King Architects, Brailsford & Dunlavey consulting firm, and HNP Landscape Architecture presented the results of the Recreation Master Plan survey as well as unveiled the initial plans of the catalyst project for a new Parks and Recreation multi-purpose site.

Alabama’s Capital City is about to get a lot more colorful.

Thanks to a partnership between the Montgomery Housing Authority and City of Montgomery, special RGB (red, green, blue) lighting will be installed at three prominent interstate gateway bridges under I-85.

Alabama’s Capital City is about to get a lot more colorful.

Thanks to a partnership between the Montgomery Housing Authority and City of Montgomery, special RGB (red, green, blue) lighting will be installed at three prominent interstate gateway bridges under I-85.

“The Mill” is the new luxury apartment buildings currently under reconstruction in Downtown Prattville located in the Historic Daniel Pratt Gin Shop factory building. Construction is moving along quickly and the first building that will be available for move-ins will be Building D.

An Alabama-based burger and doughnut restaurant is eyeing Nashville for its next expansion, according to an application to Nashville's Metro government.

Calling all soccer lovers, construction is underway on a 8.6-million-dollar expansion to the soccer complex in Auburn. Construction workers have worked on this soccer complex expansion since May, and not only will they have more outdoor fields but an indoor multipurpose facility as well.

Global manufacturing provider Premier Tech announced Wednesday that it plans to build a $33 million facility in Montgomery that will employ 180 people.

Five years in the making, a waterfront development in northeast Alabama with an overall price tag topping $30 million is now drawing in crowds.

“In this life, I’ve had a lot of things, but something I never had until Miracle League was a ball player and an athlete,” said Mia Sanders father, Michael.

Called the “Crossroads of North Alabama,” Priceville is expected to double in size within the next five years. In keeping with this projected growth is the Priceville Event & Recreation Center now under construction. Montgomery-based Chambless King Architects has designed the 25,000-square-foot facility to house fitness, sports and banquet space inside its modern, clean lines.

A $40-million dollar sports complex could soon be a real thing in Saraland. The city unanimously voted to move forward with a roughly $50-thousand dollar feasibility study that will take roughly 12 weeks.

Wallace State Community College held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday afternoon marking the official beginning of the new Winston County Community Learning Center to be located in Arley next to Meek Baptist Church.

The official groundbreaking for The Mill Apartments of Prattville took place Friday with over 100 people in attendance. Officials, partners, and members of the community marked the importance of the Daniel Pratt Gin Factory Complex beginning a new, residential journey.

The Priceville Event & Recreation Center is under construction and slated to be finished by the end of 2022.

A 5 to 6-year dream of the city is finally becoming reality. They first broke ground on the site in May 2021 and now, they’re about a year into construction.

You could say the new Sand Mountain Park & Amphitheater hit it out of the park on the first pitch.