Best Of Alabama NewsCenter 2018: Economic Development

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

With the start of 2019, it’s a good time to look back on some of the good things that happened in 2018. Alabama NewsCenter has tallied the results in each grouping of stories to see which ones you responded to the most, and we’re sharing your five favorites along with a story (or stories) we wanted to make sure you didn’t miss.

The state’s successes in economic development continued in 2018. Rural Alabama was a big winner as Google kicked off construction of its $600 million data center in Jackson County while in Bibb County automotive supplier MöllerTech opened its $46.3 million plant. That wasn’t the only automotive news as Hyundai started construction on a new engine plant in Montgomery while Mazda-Toyota broke ground on its $1.6 billion auto plant in Huntsville. Bessemer landed the state’s first Amazon distribution center.

There is a good chance that the seeds for the biggest economic development story for 2019 and for years to come were sewn in 2018 with the creation of Opportunity Zones in the state.

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