Agreed....b-s exactly that....
Regarding Alabama's growth is has several metro areas that are growing nicely and spreading their wings so to speak. The Huntsville area in north AL has good quality growth and high paying jobs in a variety of modern industries. Tuscaloosa is the same with car manufacturing and the University. Birmingham/Hoover is a steadily growing and improving larger southern metro also that's beginning to hit its growth stride like Atlanta did in the 1960's. Anniston to the east toward Atlanta is also a hot bed for Honda and the growth from metro Atlanta is spilling out 20 into eastern Alabama as Atlanta grows astoundingly fast downtown and metro wide. Mobile on the coast is experiencing the explosion seen in many southern coastal areas. AL is situated to finely begin showing strong growth like many of its southern peers have for decades not only because of being surrounded by booming areas in GA and TN but because it's a last frontier like MS is becoming and has many of the same pluses that people saw in GA, NC and TN the past 40 years.
Also the I-85 corridor from Charlotte - Greeneville/Spartanburg - Atlanta - Montgomery AL has become a huge economic growth hot bed and will rival the Boston - NY - Philly - Baltimore/DC corridor in the not to distant future for those unfamiliar with the south.
The Charlotte to Atlanta corridor has already become a huge hotbed for financial services and capital, car manufacturing, computer tech & research, nanotechnology firms and medical sciences/cancer research and biotechnology along with many other high tech industries. Atlanta to Montgomery is experiencing the growth the Charlotte to Atlanta did 20 years ago in distribution and car manufacturing firms building crazily along the corridor and all the supporting techs moving to the area. Also, Columbus GA/Phoenix City AL has become a huge military growth hot spot with consolidation of many parts of the Army to Ft. Stewart resulting in a boom in this part of GA/AL. I believe the military is adding over 30,000 personnel alone to the base over the next few years with a focus on high end tech positions resulting from this movement and relocation of forces across the country to this area.
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Last edited by Atlriser; Mar 15, 2007 at 9:22 PM.
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