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  • Space Command's Redstone campus: an advisor is hired, the money is not appropriated

    Space Command's Redstone campus: an advisor is hired, the money is not appropriated
    Oct 30 2026
    Parsons has disclosed an $85 million, 75-month agreement to act as owner's advisor on the U.S. Space Command headquarters campus at Redstone Arsenal — and an owner's advisor works for the government, not for a builder. This Rocket City Brief separates what has actually been bought from what has only been estimated: a roughly 950,000-square-foot campus for up to 1,800 people, two cost figures that do not agree ($2 billion from Parsons for design and build, $4 billion as reported by SpaceNews), and the $565 million in the FY2027 military construction bill, H.R. 8469, which passed the House 400–15 on May 15, 2026 and is sitting in the Senate.
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    5 min
  • Mastin Lake overpass opens: the Restore Our Roads scorecard, and what is still closed

    Mastin Lake overpass opens: the Restore Our Roads scorecard, and what is still closed
    Oct 23 2026
    The Mastin Lake Road overpass on Memorial Parkway opened on October 16, 2026, and the underpass beneath it did not. This Rocket City Brief uses that ribbon-cutting as the occasion to read the City's own Restore Our Roads scorecard line by line: seven projects listed complete, two still under construction, and one — U.S. 72 West at University Drive — still in environmental review and right-of-way acquisition, which is the earliest stage on the board. It also covers the two engineering design contracts the Council approved on October 8 for Huntsville-annexed Limestone County, with no dollar amounts published for either.
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    5 min
  • Resolute Way and Redstone Gate 9: who is paying for the new road — The Rocket City Brief

    Resolute Way and Redstone Gate 9: who is paying for the new road — The Rocket City Brief
    Oct 13 2026
    Resolute Way, the planned road from Interstate 565 to Redstone Arsenal's Gate 9, is still in design, so existing access remains the planning assumption. We walk through the documented state agreement, design contract, city road budget and reported federal grant, explain why those amounts cannot yet be added together, and list what to watch next, plus a quick note on Roots Group's new south Huntsville plant.
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    3 min
  • Huntsville TIF 8: the $230 million capacity map before the growth - The Rocket City Brief

    Huntsville TIF 8: the $230 million capacity map before the growth - The Rocket City Brief
    Sep 21 2026
    Huntsville proposed TIF 8 is a capacity map, not an approved construction program. Here is the operator read before the expected Council vote.
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    4 min
  • Graham Farms development agreement: why Huntsville is extending sewer before the town square exists — The Rocket City Brief

    Graham Farms development agreement: why Huntsville is extending sewer before the town square exists — The Rocket City Brief
    Sep 12 2026
    A local-operator read on the Graham Farms development agreement, the infrastructure commitments that come first, and a separate University Drive planning signal.
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    3 min
  • Graham Farms development agreement: what is approved now — The Rocket City Brief

    Graham Farms development agreement: what is approved now — The Rocket City Brief
    Sep 12 2026
    Graham Farms is a City-approved development agreement with a City-stated fifteen-year horizon. Follow The Rocket City Brief for sourced Huntsville operator reads that turn early development signals into a useful long-horizon ledger.
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    3 min
  • Big Spring Park East construction: the downtown connection Huntsville is building before spring twenty twenty-seven — The Rocket City Brief

    Big Spring Park East construction: the downtown connection Huntsville is building before spring twenty twenty-seven — The Rocket City Brief
    Sep 12 2026
    A fast local-operator read on Big Spring Park East construction, the Church Street-to-Fountain Circle connection, and the difference between visible progress and a completed amenity.
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    3 min
  • Orion parking deck contract: what Huntsville agreed to build — The Rocket City Brief

    Orion parking deck contract: what Huntsville agreed to build — The Rocket City Brief
    Aug 18 2026
    Huntsville says it approved a construction contract for a new Orion parking deck. This brief records the City-stated asset, capacity, scope, expected date, and source split for project status versus a current visit.
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    4 min